Bridgerton books: Two romance novel skeptics review Julia Quinn's The Duke and I.
discuss their first foray into the genre. Seth Maxon: What was your previous romance-novel exposure going into The Duke and I? Advertisement Madeline Ducharme: I’ve always hated those cheesy covers of thick, cheap, paperback romance novels. Maybe it was my latent queerness, but something about the bulging muscles and sighing women in that corny art style just immediately turned me off. Stuff like this. Maxon: I am little bit older than you, and also a straight man, and these sorts of covers did always make me laugh more than anything. I think a youth spent with Fabio as a ubiquitous roman...
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