Nebula Finalist Review — The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

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(As a note, I won’t be doing all of these, as not everyone in the novel category has provided review copies).

So, it’s Nebula awards time, and I’m going to post my impressions of most of the finalists. I’m going to start with the novel The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

First Impressions

The most annoying way to provide award review copies is a Netgalley widget.

The second most annoying way is an encrypted PDF. Acrobat kept crashing on my tablet. This is not Polk’s fault, it’s her publisher’s.

And now for the full disclosure. I had a very negative first impression of this book, which is in no way Polk’s fault. Fact is, The Midnight Bargain is a fantasy regency romance.

I.

Hate.

Regencies.

This is deeply personal and has to do with a teacher who wanted me to give up science fiction and read Jane Austen instead because science fiction was for stupid people. This has led to me having a negative reaction to anything which remotely reminds me of Jane Austen.

Again, not Polk’s fault.

I’m also not a huge reader of category romance because I find it overly predictable…the very reason most…