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I see a KJ Charles, I read a KJ Charles

How to Fake It in Society by K.J. Charles

September 4, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

KJ Charles is definitely an auto buy (well, an auto hold) author for me (actually, I just bought actual physical copies of the Will Darling books so maybe this will become auto buy as well). Something about the way she writes consent and romances with legitimate, interesting plot works for me (not even being sarcastic). I enjoy that they tend to be sort of oldtimey as well, which allows for a bit of disengagement with the current trashfiredumpster that is the world. Every one of […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: K.J. Charles

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:43 · Genres: Romance · Tags: K.J. Charles ·
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I would read a cereal box if it happened to be Kim Secretan’s cereal box

Think of England by K.J. Charles

September 3, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I’m aware that this novel is part of its own series of works with interwoven characters, but I’d be lying if I said the point of reading this was anything more than proximity to Will Darling and my favorite ne’er-do-well aristo with red tendencies Kim Secretan 🙂 Throughout the Will Darling series, we hear about and at times run into DS, the mysterious head of the Private Bureau. Less often we run into Curtis, the henchman who’s responsible for being the muscle. Fly with me […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: K.J. Charles

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: K.J. Charles ·
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a book that deserves a proper review

The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles

December 28, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I suppose this book deserves a full review, given that now it’s become a full official re-read, and that I enjoy recommending it to others as well. This is one of those gems of a book (well, the first one which turned into reading all of them, of course) that I got from Cannonball Read (narfna, maybe?) (confirmation yes) which reminds me yet again as I do my year end reading reflections that I should take more recommendations from people whose taste I gel with. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: K.J. Charles, The Will Darling Adventures

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: K.J. Charles, The Will Darling Adventures ·
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Copper Script

Copper Script by K.J. Charles

October 18, 2025 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Funnily enough I mentally get T. Kingfisher and KJ Charles confused, just because of the vague similarities of their pen names and the fact that I enjoy a lot of what they write (and because a lot of it is about older characters, and not all of it is straight, and it’s often set in other world, either historical or fantastical) (okay so not entirely confusing why). So to read them back to back, when I’d just been mildly disappointed by a T. Kingfisher book […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: K.J. Charles, LGBTQ

wicherwill's CBR17 Review No:47 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: K.J. Charles, LGBTQ ·
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Sometimes a tiny bit of blood magic is fine, right?

A Queer Trade by K.J. Charles

Rag & Bone by K.J. Charles

June 21, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

A Queer Trade is set in the same time period as A Case of Possession. Crispin Trederloe is having a bad week. Returning to London after visiting his ill mother, he learns that his mentor, Mr. Marleigh, was a dangerous warlock and is now dead. Marleigh’s possessions have already been sold or marked for auction, and this includes his boxes and boxes of research. Marleigh and Crispin practice blood magic, which is both extremely dangerous, unpredictable, and explicitly forbidden by England’s magical overseers. At fifteen, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: 19th century london, gay romance, K.J. Charles, queer romance, Victorian murder mystery, warlocks

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: 19th century london, gay romance, K.J. Charles, queer romance, Victorian murder mystery, warlocks ·
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“Stop dreaming about the spires. It was a dreadful place and those were dreadful people, and you and I got caught in their games and paid for it.”

Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles

January 18, 2025 by narfna 2 Comments

If you read The Secret History and hated the characters, and the bleak ending made you feel terrible, this might be the book for you! In her first non-romance, we’ve got K.J. Charles trying her hand (and succeeding) at a historical mystery, dark academia style. It’s 1905, and our main character is Jeremy “Jem” Kite, who has just been fired from his job when a letter accusing him of murder showed up in his employers’ mail. This is not the first or even the tenth such letter […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: British mystery, dark academia, historical fiction, historical mystery, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, Oxford, Read Harder Challenge 2025

narfna's CBR17 Review No:7 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: British mystery, dark academia, historical fiction, historical mystery, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, mystery, narfna, Oxford, Read Harder Challenge 2025 ·
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