Series Name: Blake & Avery Series - MJ Carter Length: 3 books, 300-500 pages each Time Period: 1830s-1840s, India and then London Found at: all books are on amazon! Shipping Potential: Canon F/M, M/M and F/M potential What Do I Ship? Blake/Avery, where Blake is a working class Sherlock Holmes-type figure who is very bitter at the whole world (due in part to being deported to India in his youth and then forced to work for the government) and Avery is an upper middle class soldier who initially seems like a selfish twit but has a heart of gold on the inside. There’s about twenty years between them and they have hundreds of differences, but they end up super loyal to each other - to the point where Avery actually names his son after Blake - and genuinely make each other better people.
I also ship Matty/Helen, who don’t actually meet in canon but who I think could be really sweet together. Matty is an extremely lower class street rat introduced in book two, who has been dealt a hard hand by life but who is still constantly fighting for a better life. Helen is Avery’s canon wife (who he has an extremely complicated relationship with), who is very beautiful and seemingly very vapid but who has a lot of interesting ambition and obviously chafes under the roles assigned to women in that period. I think the contrast between Matty’s lower class struggles and Helen’s upper class struggles could just be really fun! Summary: Avery, upper middle class twit with a heart of gold, is sent to India by his father to make something of himself. When he’s asked to take a message to the mysterious Blake, a man who has turned his back on the East India Company and British society in general, this triggers a series of events that sends them haring across India in search of a possibly fictitious cult and growing an awful lot closer along the way.
They eventually solve that mystery, but when they reunite again in London three years later they end up having to solve more crimes and also to rebuild their relationship and their own lives along the way. Why Do I love It?: Interesting plots, Historical accuracy AND a relationship between the two main characters so endearing that I had to keep putting my copy of the book down to clutch my face with glee. They’re just really meaty books that have so many iddy moments in them!
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Blake & Avery series
Date: 2021-08-04 06:50 pm (UTC)Length: 3 books, 300-500 pages each
Time Period: 1830s-1840s, India and then London
Found at: all books are on amazon!
Shipping Potential: Canon F/M, M/M and F/M potential
What Do I Ship? Blake/Avery, where Blake is a working class Sherlock Holmes-type figure who is very bitter at the whole world (due in part to being deported to India in his youth and then forced to work for the government) and Avery is an upper middle class soldier who initially seems like a selfish twit but has a heart of gold on the inside. There’s about twenty years between them and they have hundreds of differences, but they end up super loyal to each other - to the point where Avery actually names his son after Blake - and genuinely make each other better people.
I also ship Matty/Helen, who don’t actually meet in canon but who I think could be really sweet together. Matty is an extremely lower class street rat introduced in book two, who has been dealt a hard hand by life but who is still constantly fighting for a better life. Helen is Avery’s canon wife (who he has an extremely complicated relationship with), who is very beautiful and seemingly very vapid but who has a lot of interesting ambition and obviously chafes under the roles assigned to women in that period. I think the contrast between Matty’s lower class struggles and Helen’s upper class struggles could just be really fun!
Summary: Avery, upper middle class twit with a heart of gold, is sent to India by his father to make something of himself. When he’s asked to take a message to the mysterious Blake, a man who has turned his back on the East India Company and British society in general, this triggers a series of events that sends them haring across India in search of a possibly fictitious cult and growing an awful lot closer along the way.
They eventually solve that mystery, but when they reunite again in London three years later they end up having to solve more crimes and also to rebuild their relationship and their own lives along the way.
Why Do I love It?: Interesting plots, Historical accuracy AND a relationship between the two main characters so endearing that I had to keep putting my copy of the book down to clutch my face with glee. They’re just really meaty books that have so many iddy moments in them!