The Station by Keira Andrews

Young lord Colin Lancaster speaks up for stable master Patrick Callahan when Patrick is caught having sex with another man. This saves Patrick’s life but gets them both sent to a prison colony in Australia.

This book was definitely okay. It’s…meh…fine? There were things about that I didn’t like, such attempted sexual assualt used as a plot device. But it managed to scratch the queer historical fiction itch that I seem to have developed. 

Joel Leslie is not my favorite narrator but he is certainly a favorite of the queer historical romance genre, as evidenced by how many books he narrates. 

Length: 218 pages | 7 hours 9 minutes

Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne

This book was not for me. 

Wealthy and beautiful heiress Angelika Frankenstein wants nothing more than to have a man fall in love with her–except maybe to be a mother. But she is odd, you see? So, rather than find a man who will accept or even love her strangeness, she decides to help her brother make one. Or two. One for each of them. The man she makes is sexy. Because hotness was always an option, obviously. It just happened that Victor's monster ended up looking monstrous.

[spoiler] The climax of the book is resolved when avowed atheist Victor Frankenstein helps to pray his sister's sexy monster man back to life. Oh, also, there's an entirely pointless attempt at writing a love triangle that adds nothing to the story. [/spoilers]

For a similar idea done much better, try The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein. 

 

Length: 389 pages | 11 hours 43 minutes