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REVIEW: The Misbehaving Marquess by Leigh LaValle
Dear Ms. LaValle, When I requested this book, I wasn’t aware that it was a novella (I rarely read novellas). I wasn’t put out to discover that it was shorter than the average book, but I did come to...
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REVIEW: Seduction in Silk by Jo Beverley
“A curse, a bachelor, and a spinster with a gun. Perry Perriam has no time for marriage, but when he’s named heir to Perriam Manor he must marry a stranger or his family will lose the ancient estate....
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REVIEW: The Gentleman’s Madness by Bonnie Dee,Summer Devon
Dear Ms. Dee and Ms. Devon: An m/m romance between an attendant and an inmate in a Victorian insane asylum… I think I know why this was published after Christmas. It was actually less dark and...
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REVIEW: Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran
Dear Ms. Duran: Just the title is probably enough to clue in readers of That Scandalous Summer that this book will be about widower Alistair de Grey, who went spectacularly round the bend over his...
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REVIEW: Gypsy Heiress by Laura London
Dear Laura London: One of the most useful concepts I’ve learned from romance readers online is that of reader consent. Gypsy Heiress is in many respects similar to The Bad Baron’s Daughter, a book I...
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REVIEW: Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran
Dear Ms. Duran: When I read the blurb for this book, I was a little uneasy: “Running for her life, exhausted and out of options, Olivia Holladay wants nothing more than the chance to make a home for...
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REVIEW: Between the Devil and Ian Eversea by Julie Ann Long
Dear Ms. Long: Does it sound negative to say that it feels like your Pennyroyal Green series has been going on for ages? I don’t mean for it to – I was surprised to see that the publication date of...
View ArticleREVIEW: My Beautiful Enemy by Sherry Thomas
Dear Ms. Thomas, Given the current (rocky) state of my relationship with historical romance, I approached your latest book with a certain amount of trepidation. When I’m in a slump, I’m always afraid...
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REVIEW: Think of England by K.J. Charles
Dear K.J. Charles: Damn it, why didn’t I think of this book? (And have the willpower to write it, and the talent to make it good, and the tenacity to get it published…) For someone like me who grew up...
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REVIEW: Twist of Honor by Karin Welss
“His design was strictly honorable: to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.” (Henry Fielding, Tom Jones) It’s the spring of 1666, and Kit Fitzgeorge, a disabled mercenary soldier, finds...
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REVIEW: The Mésalliance by Stella Riley
Reluctantly, the Duke of Rockliffe is in the market for a wife. His requirements are simple; a lady who will occupy her position with well-bred grace and chaperone his sister, Nell – but who will not...
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REVIEW: By the Sword by Alison Stuart
England 1650. In the aftermath of the execution of the King, England totters once more on the brink of civil war. The country will be divided and lives lost as Charles II makes a last bid to regain...
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REVIEW: Too Dangerous for a Lady by Jo Beverley
Lady Hermione Merryhew, daughter of an impoverished marquess, already has her share of problems. The last thing she needs is an intruder in her bedroom, especially not a fugitive thief. She should...
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REVIEW: Lady Be Good by Meredith Duran
Dear Ms. Duran: Though I approach basically all historicals these days with a good deal of trepidation, a new Meredith Duran book is still a thing to be anticipated. I gave your last book, Fool Me...
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REVIEW: Lucia in London and Mapp and Lucia by E. F. Benson
E. F. Benson’s beloved Mapp and Lucia novels are sparkling, classic comedies of manners set against the petty snobberies and competitive maneuverings of English village society in the 1920s and 1930s....
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REVIEW: Listen to the Moon by Rose Lerner
Dear Ms. Lerner: I read (and enjoyed) the first book in the Lively St. Lemeston series, Sweet Disorder. I hadn’t gotten around to the second book in the series yet, but when I heard that this, the...
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REVIEW: Dukes Prefer Blondes by Loretta Chase
Dear Loretta Chase: I requested this book on a whim though I haven’t read all of the previous books in the series (I think I read the first one?). I don’t think that fact affected my enjoyment *that*...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Bride Behind the Curtain: Regency Makeover Part 1 by Darcie Wilde
Even wallflowers find a way to bloom… They were dismissed as hopeless—girls too plain, too shy, too gauche to stand any chance in the ruthless competition of the London season. But Helene Fitzgerald,...
View ArticleREVIEW: A Lady’s Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran
Dear Meredith Duran: It’s probably not a good sign that when I sat down to write this review, about a week after finishing the book, I at first could remember nothing about it. Not the characters, not...
View ArticleREVIEW: Beauty Like the Night by Joanna Bourne
Dear Joanna Bourne, I’m not much a of a wine drinker. But I understand that fine wine is best savoured slowly and often improves with age. Your books are like that. I like to linger over your words and...
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