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Just A Warning, Love – The Non-Fic Dukes Are Not Nearly As Fun

August 21, 2018 by Emmalita 5 Comments

Our lovers, Portia and Tavish, get off to a bad start when a) Tavish forgets to pick Portia up from the train station, and b) Portia mistakes him for an attacker and maces him. This is one of my favorite ways to start a romance.

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: A Duke By Default, ADHD, Alyssa Cole, cbr10bingo, Contemporary Romance, Reluctant Royals

Emmalita's CBR10 Review No:35 · Genres: Romance · Tags: A Duke By Default, ADHD, Alyssa Cole, cbr10bingo, Contemporary Romance, Reluctant Royals ·
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Well, someone was living her dream of a manners-free life.

August 2, 2018 by J 2 Comments

While Alyssa Cole isn’t on my auto-buy list of authors*, I’m always going to check out her new releases. She writes stories with smart, engaging characters that I like spending time with. I enjoyed A Princess in Theory so much that I pre-ordered A Duke by Default as soon as it was available. I swallowed this book whole, you guys. Flighty rich girl Portia, Ledi’s friend from Theory, runs away from New York to take up a swordmaking apprenticeship in Scotland. Her master is grumpy […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Alyssa Cole, Contemporary Romance, interracial romance

J's CBR10 Review No:16 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Alyssa Cole, Contemporary Romance, interracial romance ·
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Three Revolutionary War romances.

May 8, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

This book is actually three novellas, all written under the umbrella premise of Eliza Hamilton collecting stories about her husband, Alexander, in service of recording his legacy. I enjoyed all three of the novellas, but I definitely enjoyed Courtney Milan’s the most (not really surprised there). I’m also not really surprised that I enjoyed Alyssa Cole’s the least, as I’ve not had great luck with her books in the past. But overall, this is a solid trio of romances, set in a time period I […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, hamilton, Hamilton's Battalion, historical romance, narfna, novellas, Revolutionary War, Rose Lerner

narfna's CBR10 Review No:56 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, hamilton, Hamilton's Battalion, historical romance, narfna, novellas, Revolutionary War, Rose Lerner ·
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Read this for the awesome heroine.

April 24, 2018 by narfna 4 Comments

I have mixed feelings about this one. It’s looking like Alyssa Cole is going to be a hit or miss author for me. I didn’t fully enjoy An Extraordinary Union for the same reasons I didn’t fully enjoy this one, I think, but I loved A Hope Divided. So I will keep reading her stuff and just know that going in the chemistry between her leads doesn’t always work for me. Really, I didn’t NOT like this book, it just didn’t work the way it was […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole, Contemporary Romance, narfna, read harder challenge 2018, Reluctant Royals, romance

narfna's CBR10 Review No:53 · Genres: Romance · Tags: A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole, Contemporary Romance, narfna, read harder challenge 2018, Reluctant Royals, romance ·
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Naledi does not have time for knock off Nigerian email scams.

March 14, 2018 by Emmalita 8 Comments

I was standing in the book section of my local Walmart having a revelation about how Trump became President when A Princess in Theory jumped out at me like a life line. I grabbed it in hopes that Alyssa Cole will become Walmart’s biggest selling author and they will look into the abyss that is their corporate soul. And don’t judge me, I had been given a Walmart gift card. Naledi Smith is a Public Health grad student in New York City specializing in epidemiology. Her […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole, Reluctant Royals

Emmalita's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: Romance · Tags: A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole, Reluctant Royals ·
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Love during the American Civil War

February 18, 2018 by Malin 1 Comment

Until she was thirteen, Marlie Lynch grew up with her mother, a freed slave and wise woman. After her white father’s death, she was taken in by her half-sister and has been able to combine her knowledge of herbs and root magic with scientific principles. Three years into the American Civil War, Marlie and her half-sister are working surreptitiously to aid the cause of the Union, giving aid to runaway slaves and Freedmen, taking medicine and food to imprisoned Union soldiers, and with Marlie sending […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: #CBR10, 19th Century America, a hope divided, Alyssa Cole, civil war, historical romance, Slavery, the loyal league

Malin's CBR10 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: #CBR10, 19th Century America, a hope divided, Alyssa Cole, civil war, historical romance, Slavery, the loyal league ·
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