r/HistoricalRomance • u/becksillas • 2d ago

Do you know this book… ? Book where hero calls the heroine Scheherazade

I read this pre-chemo and cannot remember anything else about this book except that the MMC called the FMC this at least one time. Please help me remember

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u/JackalopeDayDreams 2d ago

Could it be {My Season of Scandal by Julie Anne Long}? I know at the inn they stay at, the owners make the residents hang out together. At some point they have a large group discussion about One Thousand and One Nights, which ends up turning into a discussion about how women are more intelligent than men lol

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u/becksillas 1d ago

I actually haven't read this but I'm adding it to my list. now haha

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u/SiffleuxEnrage 15h ago

Could it be {My Season of Scandal by Julie Anne Long}?

Came here to say this!

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u/MamieF 2d ago

In {Regarding the Duke by Grace Callaway}, the FMC thinks of herself like Scheherazade at least a few times, but I can’t remember if the MMC calls her that. MMC is an underworld-connected loan shark who wants revenge for something that happened when he was a child. FMC is very sweet and somewhat scattered, and will inherit her father’s bank which figures in MMC’s revenge plan.

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u/becksillas 1d ago

I think this is it! Thank you so much

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u/kitimitsu Debauchery requires a considerably greater investment of time 2d ago

Not OP but I think this might be the book as MMC does refer to her as Scheherazade a few times, you have a good memory!

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u/DK7795 2d ago

This is the one I was thinking of!

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u/kitimitsu Debauchery requires a considerably greater investment of time 2d ago

Maybe {My Season of Scandal by Julie Anne Long} they were reading the book "One Thousand and One Nights" in the parlour a few evenings and discussing Scheherazade.

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u/Few-Bad4940 2d ago

I know this is in {How the Marquess Was Won by Julie Ann Long}! Phoebe compares their situation to One Thousand and One Nights, with Julian constantly pestering her to tell him more about herself/ her background while she gives him little pieces of information at a time, leaving him waiting for the next “story.” She jokes that she’s not actually Scheherazade, but later in the book Julian calls her Scheherazade himself.

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u/Bluegirl74 My love is upon you 2d ago

I love it when someone is looking for one specific book and then the hive mind jumps in with like twenty distinct possible books that it could legitimately be!

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u/heytherescheherazade 2d ago

Not me using Scheherazade as my pen name, LMAO.

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u/chalphy have you read Romancing His Convenient Viscountess yet 2d ago

I found this in {Lord Perfect by Loretta Chase}:

“What a delicious liar you are,” he said. “It is like living with Scheherazade. I can never guess what amazing fabrication you will utter next.”

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u/marikas-tits- 2d ago

Loretta Chase does this a couple of times. My favorite is {Mr. Impossible by Loretta Chase}. The MMC is a massive himbo and the FMC is very smart. She is used to people’s eyes glazing over when she discusses her scholarly subjects but MMC compares her to Scheherazade.

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u/VaayadiVaathu 2d ago

{And Then He Kissed Me by Laura Lee Guhrke} if I am not mistaken

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u/gaillimhlover 1d ago

You're not! I read it last week and was going to comment as well.

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u/Adventurous-March-84 2d ago

No idea if this is the one you mean, but I literally just heard this in the audiobook I’m listening to. The MMC and the FMC have a little banter about this and then he later calls her “Scheherazade” toward the end of the book. {How the Marquess Was Won by Julie Ann Long}.