#unscientific study

[lindaghill]

Poll for Pingback Users

Poll for Pingback Users

Pingbacks have been unreliable for a while now, but it seems in the last week or so they’ve gone from fickle to downright unstable.

I’d like to conduct a little experiment, to see if different types of accounts/different editors have anything to do with the recent issues.

Please choose one of the following, and let’s see if there’s any clear correlation between the technology we’re using and the…

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[midnightsidhe-blog]

Three books into my Totally Unscientific Study, I have already found one book that is a perfect zero: Joanna Shupe’s The Lady Hellion.  This is a book in which the heroine of the book was hideously slut-shamed by her asshole first lover and the hero doesn’t bat an eye when she tells him she’s not a virgin, so maybe it shouldn’t be unexpected that there’s no slut-shaming of other women, direct or indirect, but I read a lot of historical romance, so.

In fact, all three of the books in Shupe’s debut trilogy scored quite well; the average score for the trilogy was a mere 2.58, and I might have scored the first book too harshly because it was the first book in the study and I was feeling zealous.

Well done, Shupe.  You were a new-to-me author, so I had no idea what to expect from you; and you used a few plotlines that tend to go along with slut-shaming-of-other-women, particularly in historicals, from which you admirably refrained.  This was a very welcome surprise.