![]() ![]() ![]() All she knows is that life is pulling her in two different directions, and she’ll have to decide what matters more: patching up her increasingly strained relationship with Rose, or focusing on the glittering world that Nash offers.Īs in their debut novel, Reputation, Croucher’s sharp, vivid and enchanting writing bursts off the page. She also doesn’t know why their “practice” kisses with each other seem to affect her so powerfully. Eddie doesn’t know why something in her rebels at the thought of Rose building a life with someone else. Rose, in fact, seems on the verge of an engagement to a man who’s perfectly nice, perfectly dull and (in Eddie’s opinion) perfectly dreadful. They’ve been inseparable since they were little, but now they’re expected to grow up, participate in social events, accept suitors. It’s everything Eddie’s always wanted, and it’s a splendid distraction from how her deep, devoted friendship with Rose Li seems to be crumbling. She’s awed to the point of speechlessness when she meets gifted, charming, roguishly gorgeous poet Nash Nicholson and he invites her to become part of his inner circle of artists, writers and revolutionaries. ![]() “Never meet your heroes” is a sentiment that’s probably been around as long as celebrities have existed, and Lex Croucher’s Infamous is a perfect illustration of why.Įdith “Eddie” Miller is a Jo March-esque heroine, a young woman with literary aspirations in Regency England. ![]()
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