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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Some
Sensual romantic scenes between hero and heroine
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Racial prejudice in Victorian England; ambition and the right to dream; societal barriers to love
What this book is about
Rose Sweetly is a human calculator who wants to be a professional astronomer. Stephen Shaughnessy is a newspaper columnist famous for progressive opinions. Their friendship deepens into love despite every obstacle Victorian society throws at an interracial couple. Talk Sweetly to Me is a novella that quietly, beautifully centers a Black heroine in historical romance.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Interracial romance; historical racism depicted
Sensual scenes
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