OMG that Dorian Grey review is amazing. I too hope to write for outlawed noblemen and perverted telegraph-boys.

I thought Let the Great World Spin was AWFUL: offensively poorly written, with cardboard characterization mostly composed of gross stereotypes, particularly egregious when it came to the depiction of sex workers but really pretty bad all around. But the group of people with whom I read it had a wider diversity of opinion, and some of them absolutely loved it. Suffice to say I'll be curious as to your thoughts if you get there.