Courtney Milan is the best, the very best, romance writer currently publishing, but she is not perfect and Once Upon a Marquess is a delightfully imperfect novel. Her trademark elements – eloquence, unexpected romantic moments, family politics, deciding for oneself who one will be – are here, they just don’t come together quite as successfully as they have in some of her previous efforts. The first book in her new Worth Saga, Milan is laying a lot of groundwork and she is mostly successful in […]
“Experience tells me that fiction is fiction and that hope leads to disappointment.”
When I reviewed Anna and the French Kiss I mentioned that while I would consider that book New Adult, I still had a tough time being invested in the romantic life of high school seniors. College, fine, that works for me. So when I reviewed the Contemporary/New Adult The Year We Fell Down I had no trouble with the age of the characters or believing their life in college. Which is what I kept thinking about when I settled on a rating of three stars […]
Sinister’s Little Sister Gets Her Man
I am sorry to be one of many here, but Courtney Milan’s The Suffragette Scandal is my favorite of her Brothers Sinister series. Thus far. I haven’t read the novellas yet and I’m told by people who know such things that The Governess Affair is delightful. I will get to that one at some point I’m sure. Suffragette Scandal features Oliver Marshall’s (the lamest ‘hero’ in Milan’s oeuvre I’ve read so far) younger sister Frederica, or Free as her friends call her. We met her […]
I Love a Sebastian
Courtney Milan’s third entry in her Brothers Sinister is The Countess Conspiracy. In this one, Sebastian Malheur, notorious rake and longtime friend of the heroes of the previous two entries in the series, has grown tired of covering for his best friend Violet, Countess of somethingorother. All of the incredible scientific advances he’s made and lectured on, regarding sexuality and inheritance are actually Violet’s. Sebastian isn’t necessarily tired of it because of the threats on his life, but it’s more of an insult to his […]
Ladies’ Man, Man’s Man, Man About Town
The Brothers Sinister series has come to an end for me, and it’s unfortunate that it goes out with a bit of a whimper. I have loved reading this series – it has contained some of my absolute favorite romances and delightful characters while also being a beacon for what quality historical fiction (romantic or not) can and should be. I have spread these seven works out over the course of nearly a year – I read The Governess Affair in late July of 2014 […]
Courtney Milan romances are the best kind of romances
Full disclosure, I am a huge Courtney Milan fangirl. She is simply the best at writing fun, swoony, smart romances. So when I found out she was writing something modern, I had to get my hands on it. She did not disappoint! In some ways, I actually liked this modern story better than her historical romances. Trade Me alternates viewpoints between billionaire Blake Reynolds and overworked Tina Chen. Tina is just trying to make it through college so she can get a good job and […]
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