Prompted by a request from a PWD reader, SB Sarah from romance book review site Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is asking for recommendations for romance novels featuring heroines with disabilities and/or chronic conditions.
Can you help? Would you like some recs? Head on over to the SB, TB post here:
GS vs. STA: Characters With Chronic Conditions
[…] I am thus wondering about books with heroines who are physically disabled. I know there are books with deaf/Deaf heroines (I thoroughly enjoyed Tessa Dare’s Three Nights with a Scoundrel), but I’m primarily interested in reading about women with physical limitations—damaged legs, missing arms, confined to a wheelchair, suffering from multiple sclerosis, etc. One-eyed race car drivers need not apply. […]
Enjoy!
While looking for an image to illustrate this post (intriguing the difference looking for ‘disabled heroines’ vs ‘heroines with disabilities’ btw) I found this great article on canonical comic heroes:
Batgirl Triumphant: The Price of Restoring DC Comics’ Disabled Heroine
Don’t let the wheelchair fool you
I can still kick your ass
Oh, tigtog, that image is love.
I’m a bit upset by the language in that post, though, implying that Crohn’s Disease isn’t a “chronic, potentially debilitating problem”. :(
Not sure if it fits your criteria, but ‘Addition’ by Toni Jordan has a heroine with chronic OCD. http://www.tonijordan.com/addition.html