Cannonball Read 17

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not a literal reference book, but pretty close

Watching the English by Kate Fox

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What a useful book, being reviewed months after I finished it but only weeks into my move to London, where I have been putting some of the lessons I learnt to use! First off kudos to my friend Britt, who gifted me this book from her perch in Jolly Ol Oxford (our uni is older than your country TM) as a good guide for what I’m getting myself into. This book is indeed quite fascinating, for all that it has some notable flaws that I […]

here starts the Tessa Dare run

Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

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WOOT the Tessa Dare run, here we gooo–definitely another #BlameMalin one here 😉 So the Castles Ever After series is tied together by the silliest and slimmest of plot threads: each of the main female protagonists are gifted a castle in some way or another, or are in possession of one despite being female, and there is a Duke or Lord or Laird or something or another who is either in the castle, thinks he should be in the castle, or flat out wants a castle and […]

south asian P&P adaptations never really do it for me :(

Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron

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Here we have an Emma retelling, by Farah Heron of Accidentally Engaged fame. I admitted did not finish said book, but I am well documented as reading any and all Jane Austen fic that comes my way so here we were, reading a South Asian retelling of the seminal Austen work. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress […]

Christmas in March? not the most ridiculous thing re: this book

How the Dukes Stole Christmas by Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Sophie Jordan, Joanna Shupe

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Wow like, I will suspend disbelief for books but like these stories were R I D I C U L O U S. I was also really jonesing for some historical romance (especially after reading bits of, and then re-reading all of Lord Perfect) but I think I have utterly gotten over that desire after sort of forcing myself to read these four short stories. I have read, I think, longer novels written by each of these authors. Maybe not Sophie Jordan? But definitely Tessa Dare […]

another author definitively on the must read shelf

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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This isn’t my favorite book by Reid (that’s probably still Daisy Jones & The Six, followed closely by The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo) but it’s not my least favorite (One True Loves). That being said, every book of hers is the same: imminently readable, not too frothy/not too froufrou, focusing on the emotional life of a female, and so very fiction forward. She’s…a very good writer, to put it bluntly, and can weave together stories about fictional events like very few other authors. There’s no gimmick, […]

author on the will read shelf for sure

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles

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And then, for something different and DELIGHTFUL. I should have known to satiate my historical romance longing with a standalone novel by K.J. Charles, who had so recently delighted me with the Will Darling series. Here, we go even further back in history and even further into gay with the tale of two scheming siblings, attempt to fortune hunt (as the title would suggest) with the most moral of intentions. Neither of them want to want, and they’re in the game together. If one rises […]



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