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V.R. Christensen

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Aberdeen, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy

Influences

Dickens, Eliot, George Meredith, Jane Austen

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April 2011

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V.R. Christensen writes classically inspired romantic historical fiction and steampunk dystopian novels of depth and sensitivity. V.R.’s historical romances have been multiple-time bestsellers and have been compared to Jane Austen and Charles Dickens (a literary lovechild, perhaps?) V.R. is half English and resides in the United States, though she spends a majority of her time immersed in late-Victorian classic literature and costume dramas. Her work has been described as “masterful for its genre” and “gorgeous”—“like a river flowing through a beautiful landscape that is sometimes light, sometimes dark and threatening.”

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A Plot with a Few Holes

The cracks in Prince Nanzeta’s tale begin to show in July. Perhaps he forgot his story (unlikely) or, possibly, someone in one of his audiences somewhere pointed out to him the fact that the Sacred City of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlan, was actually located in the center of a lake with water all around. The landscape he had described replete with craggy cliffs and bottomless crevasses sounded, in actua

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	Of Moths and Butterflies (The Metamorphosis Series, #1) by V.R. Christensen (Goodreads Author), B. Lloyd (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 3,022 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cry of the Peacock (The Metamorphosis Series, #2) by V.R. Christensen (Goodreads Author), B. Lloyd (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 1,996 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gods and Monsters (The Metamorphosis Series, #3) by V.R. Christensen (Goodreads Author), B. Lloyd (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faultless (Less is More, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guileless: Less is More: "Season One", Volume Three (Less is More #3) 4.35 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearless: Less is More "Season One", Volume Two (Less is More #2) 4.30 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind 3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invitation 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absinthe Moon (Icarus Project, #1) 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parade : A Collection of Delightfully Odd Stories by V.R. Christensen (Goodreads Author), B. Lloyd (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become

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“We make such gods and monsters of men, do we not?”
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