{"id":30036,"date":"2023-03-21T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=30036"},"modified":"2023-03-21T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:56:53","slug":"review-infamous-by-lex-croucher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/21\/review-infamous-by-lex-croucher\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f Infamous by Lex Croucher"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-30036\" data-postid=\"30036\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-30036 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_05x9219 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-narrow tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_cr7l219 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_5642219 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/infamous-lex-croucher.jpg?resize=326%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-30037\" title=\"infamous-lex-croucher\" alt=\"infamous-lex-croucher\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/infamous-lex-croucher.jpg?w=326&amp;ssl=1 326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/infamous-lex-croucher.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/infamous-lex-croucher.jpg?resize=400%2C613&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_v9lj220 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith (\u201cEddie\u201d) Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together\u2014from climbing trees and sneaking bottles of wine, to extensive kissing practice. But Rose has started talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. Why can\u2019t they continue as they always have?<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Then Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson\u2013\u2013a rival of Lord Byron, if he does say so himself\u2013\u2013and he welcomes her into his world of eccentric artists and boundary-breaking visionaries. When Eddie receives an invitation to Nash&#8217;s crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside, promising inspiration (and time to finish her novel, a long-held dream), she eagerly agrees. But the pure hedonism and debauchery that ensues isn\u2019t exactly what she had in mind, and Eddie soon finds herself torn between her complicated feelings for Rose and her equally complicated dynamic with Nash, whose increasingly bad behavior doesn\u2019t match up to her vision for her literary hero.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Will Eddie be forced to choose between her friendship with Rose and her literary dreams\u2013\u2013or will she be able to write her own happily ever after?<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_qe7b220 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2pbx220  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28954 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf.png?resize=88%2C88&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf.png?resize=45%2C45&amp;ssl=1 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Mar 21, 2023<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Unknown<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Macmillan<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0St. Martin&#8217;s Press\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $11.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><em>Loudly queer historical romance, yes please.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Except this one collapsed for me before I could get past twenty-five percent. What killed it for me? The characters themselves. The main characters are two women in their twenties, almost on the shelf, and oblivious to the fact they are in love with each other. I wanted to try and follow their journey but found myself annoyed with how they behaved and treated each other.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The first part of the story I did manage to get through only spoke to <strong>Eddie\u2019s<\/strong> POV. She\u2019s the tomboy with a love for storytelling, a hatred for anything that involves society, and with a radical bent. I wanted to love<strong> Eddie Miller<\/strong> so much, but her easy dismissal and selfish mentality turned me off so fast. Her treatment of the people she alludes to care about is awful, and ultimately, she\u2019s as bad as the poet she idolizes.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Her love interest, <strong>Rose Li,<\/strong> who I never got to experience from a POV perspective, at first seemed a good foil for Eddie. Though it was quickly realized that whenever Rose or Eddie were put in an element that they dislike, they turned into worse versions of themselves and weren\u2019t afraid to embarrass the other openly.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Ultimately, this could be a case where this book is more a YA\/NA audience, and I\u2019m just getting too old for those types of stories. I totally get rebellious characters and won\u2019t dismiss that those of the merchant class may have had more freedom than those in higher social circles. Though I couldn\u2019t get over my personal dislikes of the characters, others may enjoy this unconventional story with plenty of diversity and LGBTQ representation.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_803a220 customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ySVavd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3JUXiZI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/infamous-lex-croucher\/1141344228?ean=9781250875662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/infamous-54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Lex_Croucher_Infamous?id=15FrEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer Edith (\u201cEddie\u201d) Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together\u2014from climbing trees and sneaking bottles of wine, to extensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,119,48,59],"tags":[240,263,305,345,406],"class_list":["post-30036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landra","category-macmillan","category-reviews","category-st-martins-press","tag-dnf","tag-f-f-romance","tag-historical-romance","tag-lgbtq-romance","tag-regency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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But Rose has started talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. Why can\u2019t they continue as they always have?<br \/><br \/>Then Eddie meets charming, renowned poet Nash Nicholson\u2013\u2013a rival of Lord Byron, if he does say so himself\u2013\u2013and he welcomes her into his world of eccentric artists and boundary-breaking visionaries. When Eddie receives an invitation to Nash's crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside, promising inspiration (and time to finish her novel, a long-held dream), she eagerly agrees. But the pure hedonism and debauchery that ensues isn\u2019t exactly what she had in mind, and Eddie soon finds herself torn between her complicated feelings for Rose and her equally complicated dynamic with Nash, whose increasingly bad behavior doesn\u2019t match up to her vision for her literary hero.<br \/><br \/>Will Eddie be forced to choose between her friendship with Rose and her literary dreams\u2013\u2013or will she be able to write her own happily ever after?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/dnf.png?resize=45%2C45&amp;ssl=1 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 88px) 100vw, 88px\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Mar 21, 2023<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Unknown<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Macmillan<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0St. Martin's Press\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $11.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><em>Loudly queer historical romance, yes please.<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Except this one collapsed for me before I could get past twenty-five percent. What killed it for me? The characters themselves. The main characters are two women in their twenties, almost on the shelf, and oblivious to the fact they are in love with each other. I wanted to try and follow their journey but found myself annoyed with how they behaved and treated each other.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The first part of the story I did manage to get through only spoke to <strong>Eddie\u2019s<\/strong> POV. She\u2019s the tomboy with a love for storytelling, a hatred for anything that involves society, and with a radical bent. I wanted to love<strong> Eddie Miller<\/strong> so much, but her easy dismissal and selfish mentality turned me off so fast. Her treatment of the people she alludes to care about is awful, and ultimately, she\u2019s as bad as the poet she idolizes.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Her love interest, <strong>Rose Li,<\/strong> who I never got to experience from a POV perspective, at first seemed a good foil for Eddie. Though it was quickly realized that whenever Rose or Eddie were put in an element that they dislike, they turned into worse versions of themselves and weren\u2019t afraid to embarrass the other openly.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Ultimately, this could be a case where this book is more a YA\/NA audience, and I\u2019m just getting too old for those types of stories. I totally get rebellious characters and won\u2019t dismiss that those of the merchant class may have had more freedom than those in higher social circles. Though I couldn\u2019t get over my personal dislikes of the characters, others may enjoy this unconventional story with plenty of diversity and LGBTQ representation.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ySVavd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3JUXiZI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/infamous-lex-croucher\/1141344228?ean=9781250875662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/infamous-54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Lex_Croucher_Infamous?id=15FrEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30045,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30036\/revisions\/30045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}