In Love in the Time of Scandal, Caroline Linden pulls off a rare feat — making you fall for a character who was set up as a bit of an arse in an earlier book. But don’t worry! He gets redeemed and totally earns his HAE. (While some romance series don’t necessarily need to be read in order, I highly recommend at least starting with the second book in the Scandalous series, It Takes a Scandal, so you get the full backstory for this book. The whole series is […]
Romance, Pirates, and Poe’s Law
I started reading romance novels back in the late 1980’s when I fell in with the wrong crowd in college. We were rebels. We read romances instead of watching soap operas. And we smoked. Rebels, I tell you. The late 1980’s was a tough time for the Romance genre. The bodice rippers of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rodgers were becoming dated, but the genre (or publishers of the genre) still weren’t comfortable with a woman having independent sexual desires. Date rape and marital rape were […]
Was 5, Now 6 Historical Romances & More For My B List
Tired of waiting for new books from authors on my autobuy list and even more tired of trying random new authors, I waded into the back catalogue of one of the most successful writers in the historical romance genre. Eloisa James has been publishing steadily for sixteen years and my crash course on her novels moves her comfortably to my B+ List. That means I am unlikely to pay for her books, but will read them if they are available at the library, or very […]
More Historical Romances and Lovely Ones at That
Mary Balogh’s lovely and touching Survivor’s Club series has what I am beginning realise is the central theme of many of her historical romances: Shuttered and broken people finding new lives and unexpected happiness. Who better to be given these second chances than soldiers and those who have seemingly lost everything? Six friends, five military men and one women, and their host, formed a close relationship while recovering from their experiences in the Napoleonic Wars at Pendarris Hall in Cornwall. Now back out in the […]
More Historical Romance, But With Fairy Tales
Eloisa James’ Fairy Tales series includes nine historical romances based around twists on the stories we learned growing up. The two I read were The Princess and the Pea (The Duke Is Mine) and The Ugly Duckling (The Ugly Duchess). I don’t feel a burning need to read more of them, but I might depending on what else is, or more accurately is not, available at the time. The Duke Is Mine Olivia and Georgiana have spent their lives in “duchess training”. Owing to an […]
Two more novellas, which were a more successful venture than the last two
I definitely should not have spent a bunch of time in my last review bloviating about whether I like novellas or not, because it seems they’re all I have time to read recently. I’ve been waiting a long time for both of these to come off hold at the library, and perhaps it was the waiting making the reward all the sweeter, but these stories were both really enjoyable. I am not sure how else I can wax all poetical about the loveliness of Tessa […]
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