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“In any event,” Percy went on, “what I had thought were principles were merely manners, and they’re utterly insufficient for my present circumstances.”

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian

July 21, 2022 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb is a book unabashedly about the heart. There are so many famous quotes about the heart that remind me forcefully of this book. Perhaps the easiest is the heart wants what it wants. So much of the plot of The Queer Principles of Kit Webb is caught up in its leads doing what their hearts tell them is right, what they know to be true from somewhere deep within. We get our two heroes, the titular Kit Webb, a […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Cat Sebastian, cbr14bingo, heart, historical romance, queer romance, re-read, read harder challenge

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:44 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Cat Sebastian, cbr14bingo, heart, historical romance, queer romance, re-read, read harder challenge ·
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A Lady for a Duke

“When I am with you, I feel about as far from anything that has ever hurt me as it is possible to be.”

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

July 3, 2022 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

After reading other Alexis Hall books earlier this year, the excellent Boyfriend Material and the quite good Something Fabulous, I became very excited for the promise of A Lady for a Duke. And that excitement was well placed, as I very much enjoyed this outing. While it didn’t quite reach the heights of Boyfriend Material for me, I felt Hall did a much better job with the tone of historical romance than he had in romp in Something Fabulous, even if the pacing bothered me […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Alexis Hall, ARC, historical romance, LGBTQ, LGBTQ romance, queer romance, Regency Romance, trans heroine

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Alexis Hall, ARC, historical romance, LGBTQ, LGBTQ romance, queer romance, Regency Romance, trans heroine ·
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The Twelve Days of Christmas: Birds Galore

The Partridge by Kit Morgan

The Dove by Shanna Hatfield

The Hens by Merry Farmer

The Calling Birds by Jacqui Nelson

June 21, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Sometimes you’re just in the mood for plain and simple mail order bride romances. Lots of them. The Partridge (Kit Morgan) – 3 stars Reverend Chase Hammond, determined to save the town of Noelle, sends away for mail order brides to prove that the town can be a true civilized community. Of course, when the women actually arrive, things don’t run smoothly according to plan. This is the first book in the series, so a lot of the story involves legwork setting up the scenario […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Western Tagged With: historical romance, Jacqui Nelson, Kit Morgan, mail order bride, Merry Farmer, Romance, Series, Shanna Hatfield, western

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:88 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Western · Tags: historical romance, Jacqui Nelson, Kit Morgan, mail order bride, Merry Farmer, Romance, Series, Shanna Hatfield, western ·
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Spinster Meets Beast

Chasing the Earl by Kathleen Ayers

June 15, 2022 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Emmagene and Henry attend a house party to support their friends’ wedding, but because they are not very popular people, they are constantly thrown together by the hostess – which turns out to be not a bad thing after all. I picked up this book because I was interested in how the author would convince me to invest in a romance with two quite unlikable leads – truly unlikable, with her cutting sternness and his beastliness, not merely unpopular. Spoiler alert: the author manages it. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, England, historical romance, Kathleen Ayers, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR14 Review No:79 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, England, historical romance, Kathleen Ayers, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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Indigo

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

May 9, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Wow. Sorry to say but this is probably the first Ms. Beverly Jenkins book I have read that I struggled with. I think it’s just because this one is packed with too much stuff. We have Hester helping the Underground Railroad. We have Hester dealing with her former fiancée and his now wife. We have Hester dealing with the attentions of slave catcher. And that’s before you add in all of the Galen stuff. This book could have easily been broken into a duology with […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Beverly Jenkins, historical romance

Classic's CBR14 Review No:99 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Beverly Jenkins, historical romance ·
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“He really was an idiot, but he was an idiot for Tommy Cabot, and maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing.”

Tommy Cabot Was Here (The Cabots, #1) by Cat Sebastian

April 25, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

This was a very sweet second chance romance novella set in 1959. I don’t normally like second chance romances all that much, but in this case, Sebastian plays it perfectly. Our two main characters went to an all-boys school for almost their entire childhoods, and Everett was in love Tommy for most of it. But Tommy married a woman, moved away, and the two of them stopped speaking. Now in their thirties, Everett is a teacher at their old school, and Tommy has made the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cat Sebastian, historical fiction, historical romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, novellas, Romance, the cabots, tommy cabot was here

narfna's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cat Sebastian, historical fiction, historical romance, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, novellas, Romance, the cabots, tommy cabot was here ·
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