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Mrs. Bertrice Martin—a widow, some seventy-three years young—has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.
Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of nine and sixty, crashes into her life. The Terrible Nephew is living in her rooming house, and Violetta wants him gone.
Mrs. Martin isn’t about to start giving damns, not even for someone as intriguing as Miss Violetta. But she hatches another plan—to make her nephew sorry, to make Miss Violetta smile, and to have the finest adventure of all time.
If she makes Terrible Men angry and wins the hand of a lovely lady in the process? Those are just added bonuses.
Author’s Note Sometimes I write villains who are subtle and nuanced. This is not one of those times. The Terrible Nephew is terrible, and terrible things happen to him. Sometime villains really are bad and wrong, and sometimes, we want them to suffer a lot of consequences.
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"I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of this book, though I already had it pre-ordered. This review is honest and contains my true thoughts.
This beautiful cover cloaks the most incredible women getting revenge on Mrs. Martin's terrible nephew and falling in love with each other along the way. And they're much older than our normal 20 something romance heroines and that was delightful! More specifically, Mrs. Martin is in her early 70s and Miss Beauchamps is in her late 60s and where Mrs. Martin hasn't wasted time being "nice" in many decades, Miss Beauchamps is caged by the need to be nice. See this amazing description of Violetta (aka Miss Beauchamps).
“I’m—how did you put it? I’m nice. At least, I do what people want. I don’t make trouble. I’ve been doing it all my life, and I’m used to it.†She seemed to catch herself, shaking her head and slicing cheese. "You say whatever you want, and I feel like I’m always screaming, deep inside where nobody can hear what I’m doing. It’s become so bad that I’m afraid I might start doing it out loud.â€
But then Violetta is sacked, not long before her pension was to come due, and if she can just swindle Mrs. Martin out of the money for her nephew's room in the lodging house she's been managing, she'll survive. Only Mrs. Martin won't give a single penny to her Terrible Nephew. What she does instead is head off to London with Violetta to ensure her nephew has an absolute terrible time.
Courtney Milan said on Twitter that this was not her most nuanced book and while I'd say that's true, it's a book that gave me such joy. I needed a book like this, a book that is just two women loving each other and destroying the life of a rapist.
Also, this book and Courtney's Author's Note (make sure you read the AN) discussed the concept of "surplus women" and my blood pressure, y'all. It did lead to this line though:
“You’re not surplus,†Bertrice said. “No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.â€
It's such a beautiful line. I love it so much.
Honestly I could quote so much of this book at you, but like, that's not the point of a book review so, I shall leave you with this one last line and encourage you to pick up the book ASAP.
“I never screamed aloud, and yet I lost my voice from disuse.â€"
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- HECK YEAH, Y'ALL.
WE DID IT. WE SURVIVED IN THIS TRYING WORLD AND WERE REWARDED WITH THE BOOK WE HAVE BEEN HUNGRY FOR - ELDERLY SAPPHIC LADIES FALLING IN LOVE AND GETTING REVENGE ON HORRIBLE MEN.
What? Was it just me? Hah hah, no way.
In a lot of ways it felt like this novella was tailored specifically for me. Milan's AFTER THE WEDDING was easily my favorite book of last year, and I was thirsting after Mrs. Martin immediately after she made her brief, but memorable appearance. When I found out Courtney Milan was gonna write a whole adventure for this jaded, silver-tongued heroine, I felt like the universe was really doing me a solid.
Mrs. Martin (Bertrice, as she prefers) is the fire of this book, but her partner-in-crime is the warmth. Violetta won me over to her cause right away - a frightened, older woman just trying to survive after getting sacked by her employer. I empathized heavily with Bertrice's craving to find some joy in her empty life, but it was Violetta's deep need to be seen that kept plucking my heart strings and causing dust to get in my eyes.
For all the times I wanted to cry, though, I found myself laughing twice as much. This book is deeply funny. Once you accept the premise that Terrible Nephew is terrible and this story is about making him suffer, you are in for a delightfully chaotic ride. And there is LOTS of cheese toast things, which I really want now that my hunger for older queer protagonists has been (temporarily) satisfied.
With lots of relevant commentary about the patriarchy, allocisheteronormativity, ageism, and class differences, MRS. MARTIN'S INCOMPARABLE ADVENTURE is an unforgettable read.
CWs references to abuse and sexual assault, estranged family, ableist language, ageism - I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of this book, though I already had it pre-ordered. This review is honest and contains my true thoughts.
This beautiful cover cloaks the most incredible women getting revenge on Mrs. Martin's terrible nephew and falling in love with each other along the way. And they're much older than our normal 20 something romance heroines and that was delightful! More specifically, Mrs. Martin is in her early 70s and Miss Beauchamps is in her late 60s and where Mrs. Martin hasn't wasted time being "nice" in many decades, Miss Beauchamps is caged by the need to be nice. See this amazing description of Violetta (aka Miss Beauchamps).
“I’m—how did you put it? I’m nice. At least, I do what people want. I don’t make trouble. I’ve been doing it all my life, and I’m used to it.†She seemed to catch herself, shaking her head and slicing cheese. "You say whatever you want, and I feel like I’m always screaming, deep inside where nobody can hear what I’m doing. It’s become so bad that I’m afraid I might start doing it out loud.â€
But then Violetta is sacked, not long before her pension was to come due, and if she can just swindle Mrs. Martin out of the money for her nephew's room in the lodging house she's been managing, she'll survive. Only Mrs. Martin won't give a single penny to her Terrible Nephew. What she does instead is head off to London with Violetta to ensure her nephew has an absolute terrible time.
Courtney Milan said on Twitter that this was not her most nuanced book and while I'd say that's true, it's a book that gave me such joy. I needed a book like this, a book that is just two women loving each other and destroying the life of a rapist.
Also, this book and Courtney's Author's Note (make sure you read the AN) discussed the concept of "surplus women" and my blood pressure, y'all. It did lead to this line though
“You’re not surplus,†Bertrice said. “No woman has ever needed a man to be enough.â€
It's such a beautiful line. I love it so much.
Honestly I could quote so much of this book at you, but like, that's not the point of a book review so, I shall leave you with this one last line and encourage you to pick up the book ASAP.
“I never screamed aloud, and yet I lost my voice from disuse.†- Tormenting men who deserve it - what could be more fun?
What I love about this book is that #NotAllMen never comes into it, not even a little bit - Violetta and Bertrice are unabashedly protective of themselves and each other and they hold hands into a happily ever after that credits no man.
There's one or two blokes who seem like they might be decent sorts, and there's a man or three who does his job properly at the end of the day, but happily not much attention is paid to that because it's well past time we stopped praising men for doing what was right and proper.
This review might seem a bit man-hating, but really, if it makes you want to say #NotAllMen, then this might not be the book for you.
This is about celebrating two women who are old enough to know their own minds, rich enough to wrest agency in an era that didn't want to give them any, and who have fun doing it. Geese and choruses might be involved. And chocolate. And delicious cheesy toast.
I enjoyed myself tremendously and now I'm looking forward to being Bertrice, hopefully with just as much wit and panache.
