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“why meet only six rather predictable men, when you could meet six hundred surprises.”

Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman

June 12, 2025 by Nart Leave a Comment

Plot: Isabella Lira is in a pickle. Her father has just died, and beyond being emotionally crippling also throws the family’s enormous business into disarray. Her father’s partners want to cut her out, and only a man in her corner will save the Lira name. Fortunately, this is easily solvable – she is young, beautiful, perfectly cultured, rich, and goddamn brilliant. So, she goes husband hunting. Her criteria is simple: he must be charming, professionally capable, and always, always take her side. That means the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Felicia Grossman

Nart's CBR17 Review No:16 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Felicia Grossman ·
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“Don Quixote in a corset”

Appetites & Vices by Felicia Grossman

March 2, 2025 by Nart 2 Comments

Regency novel set literally anywhere other than the UK and with a Jewish heroine? Say no more. Plot: Ursula is an heiress to one of the largest banking empires in America, but she’s also Jewish and possibly a tiny bit on the spectrum so her social life is best characterized as non-existent. Fortunately, she has her giant brain, her dad, who ferociously supports her giant brain, and her quiet goy friend Hugo, who also enjoys running away from social situations to talk about books. Well, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Romance Tagged With: Felicia Grossman

Nart's CBR17 Review No:2 · Genres: Featured, Romance · Tags: Felicia Grossman ·
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A Jewish Gender-flipped Snow White Historical Romance

Wake Me Most Wickedly by Felicia Grossman

April 10, 2024 by Emmalita 2 Comments

Wake Me Most Wickedly, the second in Felicia Grossman’s gender-flipped fairy tale retelling, but make it a Jewish histrom series, is a darker story than the first, Marry Me by Midnight, which was a gender-flipped Cinderella. It makes sense, Cinderella was forced into a life of servitude by her step mother, but Snow White’s step-mother* tried to kill her repeatedly. Between the repeated attacks on Solomon’s life and Hannah’s life lived on the edge of danger, this was a tense read. I liked it. Solomon Weiss […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Felicia Grossman, Jewish historical romance, NetGalley, Wake Me Most Wickedly

Emmalita's CBR16 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Felicia Grossman, Jewish historical romance, NetGalley, Wake Me Most Wickedly ·
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He suggests love is the answer, she thinks extortion is a safer bet.

Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman

July 25, 2023 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Felicia Grossman has been on my authors to read list for quite awhile. I follow her on social media and she seems like someone who would write books I would enjoy reading. I was correct. I found Marry Me by Midnight delightful. It is a gender swapped, Jewish Cinderella set in London during the late Georgian period (not long after the Regency). Isabelle Lira needs a husband to help her keep her portion of her late father’s surety business. His surviving business partners, the Berab brothers, don’t […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: advance reader copy, Felicia Grossman, Jewish historical romance, Marry Me by Midnight, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR15 Review No:68 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: advance reader copy, Felicia Grossman, Jewish historical romance, Marry Me by Midnight, NetGalley ·
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Not all Holidays are Christmas

Love All Year: A Holidays Anthology by Elizabeth Kahn

November 22, 2020 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

I loved this anthology of holiday romance novellas.  I knew I would. When Elizabeth announced she was putting together an anthology of romances centered around non-Christian holidays, I knew she would put out a thoughtful and entertaining book. I’m hoping this will be the first of many Love All Year anthologies. All of the stories were lovely, each in their own way. I wasn’t ready for any of them to be done when I reached the end. For the most part, the stories were about […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Anthology, Celestine Martin, Corey Alexander, Eid, Ekaterine Xia, Elizabeth Kahn, Farah heron, Felicia Grossman, Hallie Alexander, Holiday, Juneteenth, Purim, Qixi, Rosh Hashanah, Savannah J Frierson, Stacey Agdern, Sukkot, Yule

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:94 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Anthology, Celestine Martin, Corey Alexander, Eid, Ekaterine Xia, Elizabeth Kahn, Farah heron, Felicia Grossman, Hallie Alexander, Holiday, Juneteenth, Purim, Qixi, Rosh Hashanah, Savannah J Frierson, Stacey Agdern, Sukkot, Yule ·
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