![]() ![]() Kimbro, cracking out his novels a month at a time, just didn’t take the time or have the ability to write women. ![]() I feel if you are creative, empathetic, and a talented writer you should have the ability to cross gender, race, religion, social class, culture etc and still create compelling writing. I have no problem with men writing from the female perspective or vise versa. According to his obituary each book took him two to four weeks to write! And it shows. This particular series was written by John Kimbro who wrote under various pseudonyms in his life but really hit on market success with the Saga of the Phenwick Women starting with Augusta, The First and carrying on for forty books. The novels all deal with your standard gothic tropes, the supernatural, dreary settings, curses. They are gothic romance, other novels that fall into this category could be some Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart, or even the Bronte sisters. Let me give you a bit of history about this series of books. ![]() In retaliation, I didn’t get him anything for his birthday, so there is that. He had the gaul to leave the price tag and when I called him on it he said he just wanted to show me what our friendship was worth. Correction, he got the first four books in the series (more about this series later) at a used book store for a dollar. ![]() My baby brother (who turns 32 this year!) got this for my birthday last last year. ![]()
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