Lady Emily’s Exotic Journey by Lillian Marek

I jumped on this ARC because it was set in Iraq (Mosul, Ninevah). I did have colonialism concerns- she’s a British lady travelling through the Middle East with her family in the 1860s, so there’s a lot of “swiping of artifacts” and “you don’t have a flag so this land is ours” things happening in reality and it’s awkward to write about. Marek tries really hard. Emily is a pampered daughter of an earl, but … Continue reading Lady Emily’s Exotic Journey by Lillian Marek →