But can they have love and literary ambition to boot? But the more time Rose and Eddie spend together, the more absurd living separate lives becomes to them both. Eddie begins to launch a career and make connections, even though Nash is particularly pushy. To wit, she pursues the mad, bad and dangerous to know poet/author Nash Nicholson, agreeing to go to his country estate for a wild house party that will make her forget all about her problems, and takes Rose with her. While Rose finds a perfectly nice possible husband, Eddie tries to convince her there’s more to life than getting married. Eddie is horrified that Rose is seriously considering getting hitched and wants to break up their near lifelong sense of closeness. They’re twenty-year-old women, which means it’s time to enter the marriage mart – at least for Rose, who faces the possibility of marriage with equanimity rather than enthusiasm (and her suitor is not that bad of a fellow).

She practices her prose – and her kissing – on Rose Li, her best friend since they were children. I like Croucher’s characters and I have fun reading her books, but this time out her central character just grated on me.Įdith – Eddie – Miller wants to be a writer, and will use a nom-de-plume if she needs to in order to be published. No one will worry about social standings or how they will be supported in the future. Infamous contains all of the drug abuse, sexual assault, racism, abuse, on-page makeouts leading to off-page sex, and rowdy (and anachronistic) party-hearty behavior of the previous book. If you’ve read – or even just heard about – Reputation, you’ll probably know whether or not Lex Croucher’s latest, Regency-ish New Adult historical will please your older teen.

Infamous by lex croucher