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A plea for clearer genre designations
This'll teach me to peruse book info more carefully.
Made it through 61% of the book before returning to the bookstore in an attempt to figure out why "Price" had been presented on the First Reads page as "historical fiction". It was then that I saw, next to the "#1 Best Seller" mini-banner, reference to the book as "20th Century Historical Romance". [May 9 update: interestingly, I see the mini-banner reference has been changed to "Family Saga Fiction", better, thanks, but still symptomatic of Romance Genre Denial 😉]
Now I get it.
I reckon I've fallen victim of my own expectations. Sorry, but injecting little scenes with Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, and dropping only the >names< of Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Fulgencio Batista doesn't qualify the book for membership in the Historical Fiction genre. My opinion, of course.
