4.5 stars Bought and liberated as a child, and later adopted by the esteemed Sorcerer Royal, Sir Stephen Whyte, Zacharias Whyt now has the honour of being the first dark-skinned Sorcerer Royal of England. In a time when English magic is waning due to some mysterious restrictions from the Faerie courts and the country is still facing threats from Napoleon on the Continent, Zacharias is also facing personal challenges, with a seeming majority of the members of the Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers (gentleman magicians) […]
Historical romance with a sassy barmaid.
I really, really liked this one. I think it’s right up at the top of my favorite Tessa Dare books, with A Week to Be Wicked and Romancing the Duke. Pauline is a barmaid in Spindle Cove. Griff is the eighth Duke of Halford (among other titles). They are about to meet cute. Griff has been essentially kidnapped by his mother and taken to Spindle Cove to pick a woman–any woman–to be his wife. She wants grandchildren, and she wants them now. Of course, she […]
But why is he shirtless? Scotland is COLD. And why does he have a tan? It’s cloudy there!
This book was sickeningly adorable, and dead sexy. You know, I can barely remember what it was like before I could read feminist romance novels. Like, back in the day when I would raid my mom’s illicit collection shoved in the back of her closet, it was all rapey and submissive and gross all up in every book, and ladies were always stuck in the same gross positions, never allowed to have careers or be respected for their minds. It was all manly men stuff […]
Just say yes!
There are things Beverly Jenkins does really, really well, and two things that I like much less about her work, that were all evident first when I read Topaz and appeared here in Indigo. So let’s get this compliment sandwich going! This book is about Hester Wyatt, a freed former slave and operator on Michigan’s Underground Railroad. She’s decidedly non-romantic after seeing how passion and love led her father to take on the shackles of slavery to be closer to her and her mother, only […]
Outlander/Last of the Mohicans Remix
I stumbled on the MacKinnon’s Rangers trilogy by Pamela Clare while looking for Clare’s more contemporary work.Untamed (2008) is the second book in this series and involves the second MacKinnon brother–Morgan. Morgan and his two other brothers are Scottish, but grew up in the wilds of America after the Battle of Culloden decimated their clan. Now that Morgan’s older brother Ian is happily settled with a wife and child, Morgan is in charge of the Rangers: a separate, elite armed force set up to support the […]
History and intrigue and a dash of WTF
I did not do myself any favors waiting so long to review The Serpent Garden, because now what I remember is that this book alternates between being pretty interesting and completely off-the-wall crazy. Let’s start with the good, for which I’ll just refer to the Goodreads summary: “The book opens in Tudor England, where Henry VIII and his Machiavellian counselor Cardinal Wolsey are scheming to put an English heir on the French throne. They are arranging to marry Henry’s pretty, frivolous younger sister, Mary, to […]
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