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Seducing the Sedgwicks - Cat Sebastian

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Media: book series

Approx length: 3 books at about 250-300 pages each (+2 short stories from Cat’s newsletter, if you’d like to include them)

Where to find it:
The books are available most places books are sold, but check Cat Sebastian’s website for specific buy links. The short stories are iirc still available for free by signing up for Cat Sebastian’s newsletter (link on the main page of her website).

What is it, in summary?: Seducing the Sedgwicks is an M/M Regency romance novel series by Cat Sebastian. My nominations generally focus on the second two books: A Gentleman Never Keeps Score, about a gentleman and a bartender who exact revenge on a horrible dead man, and Two Rogues Make a Right, which features a former sailor who kidnaps his (nobleman) childhood best friend to nurse him back to health in the countryside.

What do you love about it?: Short of “everything”?
I am the world’s biggest sucker for friends to lovers, and I read Two Rogues Make a Right twice within a week of its release because I just love it so much. I love Martin and Will and how they interact with each other and their trauma and their shitty fathers and bad upbringings. I love how prickly Martin is (and the teasing affection he has for Will!), and how soft and caring Will is. Their entire book was pretty much hurt/comfort and I loved it.
As for A Gentleman Never Keeps Score, I ADORE Hartley as a character. How he convinces himself he doesn’t care about people, and then does the most to help others. And Sam! Who feels so damaged by his past, but he’s so good and kind and does all of this to help a friend! I love them both tbh!
The first book (It Takes Two to Tumble) is also lovely. It’s a Regency M/M spin on The Sound of Music - featuring hellion children, a strict sea captain, and a vicar who loves animals. It’s probably the most idyllic and least complicated of the three, but it is the first in the series (and I think the first Cat Sebastian) I read, so I have a soft spot for it.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence):
Book 1 (It Takes Two to Tumble): past parental neglect, MC who deals with internalized shame of his dyslexia, explicit sex, secondary character with an illness similar to MS, period typical ableist attitudes regarding a disabled woman’s marriageability
Book 2 (A Gentleman Never Keeps Score): past sexual abuse of a minor, explicit consensual sex, one MC is Black and experiences racism from a law enforcement officer
Book 3 (Two Rogues Make A Right): addiction, chronic illness, PTSD, emotional abuse of child by parent, past parental neglect, past sexual abuse of minor (off page, before story begins), explicit consensual sex
For the shorts, there isn’t anything that isn’t above.