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Concluding the series by marrying off the last sister

Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas

May 4, 2020 by Malin 2 Comments

3.5 stars Official book description: Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything—or anyone—is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife—and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love—the one thing he can’t give. Severin is the most compelling and attractive man Cassandra has ever met, even if his heart […]

A debut romance that is MUCH better than its painfully pink cover would indicate

A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy

March 18, 2020 by Malin 3 Comments

4.5 stars Official book description: Cassandra DeWitt has seen her husband only once—on their wedding day two years earlier—and this arrangement suits her perfectly. She has no interest in the rude, badly behaved man she married only to secure her inheritance. She certainly has no interest in his ban on her going to London. Why, he’ll never even know she is there. Until he shows up in London too, and Cassandra finds herself sharing a house with the most infuriating man in England. Joshua DeWitt […]

Another regretfully rather forgettable Linden romance

Six Degrees of Scandal by Caroline Linden

March 18, 2020 by Malin Leave a Comment

Official book description: Olivia Townsend is in trouble and out of options. Pursued by a dangerous man in search of a lost treasure she doesn’t possess, she’s got only two things in her favor: her late husband’s diary, which she was never meant to see… and the man who was her first—and only—love. Losing him broke her heart, though she’s been careful to hide it for the last ten years. But when he comes to her aid and vows to stand by her, no matter […]

Still just as good as I remembered it

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

February 18, 2020 by Malin 2 Comments

I first read and reviewed this book back in 2011 (when it came out), during Cannonball III. My original review, which among other things contains a plot summary, can be found here. If you do take a look at my previous review (or just check my rating of this book), you can see that the rather unlikely romance between Miss Genevieve Eversea Lord Alexander Moncrieffe, the Duke of Falconbridge is one of my absolute favourites. I loved it utterly when I first read it back in […]

“She had a lifelong habit of extending care to animals too wild or frightened to accept it- which made her the bravest kind of fool.”

The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke #3) by Tessa Dare

January 3, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

This was not the book I was going to read next, but after the bummer of Royal Holiday I knew I needed a sure thing and a Tessa Dare book will always be a book that I quite enjoy. I pulled up the one I’d been saving, book three in the Girl Meets Duke series, and spent the afternoon and evening absorbed in Dare’s kooky version of Regency England. I love a fun, feminist, anachronistic romance novel and that is something that Tessa Dare delivers […]

They shot the penis off a statue and somehow it wasn’t enough

Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

January 2, 2020 by Nart 4 Comments

Julie Anne Long is a terrific author. She has a gift for creating fully realized characters out of even the most periphery characters that have virtually no space on the page. She treats her characters with intense, borderline radical compassion in a world that loves to categorize people into Good or Bad as quickly and irrevocably as possible. This talent is probably why I am so deeply disappointed in this book. Like No Other Lover is the second book in Pennyroyal Green series, which […]

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