I’m currently obsessed with the tv show Outlander and have been reading the books. They’re engaging without being heavy reading, and I love all the tropes e.g. “touch her and die”.
I’ve looked at other historical romances but they’re really badly written. What well written ones do you know? I’m not looking for literally masterpieces, just things that are decent writing.
The Earths Children book Series by Jean Auel.
The first book is called The Clan of The Cave Bear and it is much more of an adventure book the later books lean more heavy into the romance. I read the first three or four and I am not going to lie, the third and fourth one has some straight up pornographic parts.
The basic story is about an orphaned cro-magnum girl who is raised by neaderthals, and as she grows up she becomes a self reliant powerful women. The books use the culture of the two worlds their tools and etc as parts of the story.
If it is accurate I can not say. I really enjoyed the first three books but the series had run its course for me by the fourth one.