A Fan's Playground

A perfectly nice, sweet, fun m/m historical romance novella, featuring a sailor and his prize agent. Charming overall, and I love the family, especially Charlotte, and how Elie is so obviously gone on Augie, and I like how matter of fact the book is about Elie's Judaism and Augie's respectfulness about Elie and his family's religion. But although I enjoyed reading it, I wasn't as moved by it as I have been by some of Lerner's other books. And I was pretty frustrated by how "but what does the fiancee think" was the big Unanswered Mystery throughout that needed to be solved before the two of them could get together, and especially didn't like that they got together BEFORE Augie broke it off with the fiancee. Tbh I think the fiancee seems interesting! I wanted to have seen more of her!

Anyway reading this book reminded me that I need to get around to The Wife in the Attic at some point, since the heroine of that book is mentioned briefly in this one!