3.5 stars Shortly after the death of her father, Miss Cecilia Harcourt gets a letter informing her that her brother, Thomas Harcourt has been injured during battle i the American colonies. Her odious cousin keeps coming around hinting strongly at how beneficial it would be for Cecilia to marry him, so instead she buries the family silver in the garden and sets off over the Atlantic to find her brother and nurse him back to health. Unfortunately, no one seems to be willing to speak […]
Murder, British History, and Unreliable Narrators
I’m a pretty big fan of historical fiction, and I love a good mystery, so when I get my hands on a historical mystery, well watch out. And this one also employs one of my favorite techniques, the unreliable narrator. Wait, what’s that you say, multiple unreliable narrators? Stop it, you’re killing me! The main action of An Instance of the Fingerpost takes place in 1660s Oxford, after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne. I say “main action,” because the story is told […]
I won’t die. Of that I am all but certain.
Without war there are no heroes./What harm would that be?/Oh, Lavinia, what a woman’s question that is.
Dangerous Duke Seeks Revenge, Finds Romance
This is the first book in a new series by Madeline Hunter, the Decadent Dukes Society, and it’s definitely a slow burn romance. It took me awhile to get into the story, but once I did I began to enjoy the relationship building that was a change from insta-lust that so often occurs. There’s also some drama of long standing family rivalries to deal with, and the mystery of the hero’s father’s death to be resolved. Adam Penrose, Duke of Stratton, is recently returned from France […]
A Knight Like No Other
This is a medieval era romance, set in the time of Henry II , written by the same woman who penned the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries. Candice Proctor is her real name, and she had written several historical romances as such before using the pen name C.S. Harris. Having enjoyed that series so much, I was curious to see what her older books were like. Lady Attica d’Alerion is nineteen and betrothed for political reasons to a fourteen year old boy named Fulk the Fat. […]
“If you had the time to lose, an open mind and time to choose.”
I avoided this book for years because I was told it was a romance novel and I have a prejudice against romance novels. Perhaps it was the seemingly endless supply of Harlequin books my mother seemed to devour. The closest I ever got was a minor obsession with V.C. Andrews which take a decidedly darker turn than the average “bodice ripper.” While I’m still not a fan of a straightforward romance novel, I have included books that fall under the “romance” umbrella into my […]
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