Love by Numbers – Cannonball Read 17

starts out v fun but doesn’t quite stay there

Elven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean

June 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I think the first half or even 75% of this book was a 4 star, and then it started dropping towards the end such that I couldn’t in good conscience keep it there. As I have mentioned in the past, historical romances where the female character has some rationale for being utterly anachronistic are my jam. Here, we have Juliana Fiori who was raised by a single Italian merchant father after her mother, a fallen marchioness, abandoned them both to gallivant off with another man. […]

“It’s horrid to be someone else’s vision of yourself.”

August 23, 2016 by alwaysanswerb 1 Comment

4.5 stars I am very sorry, Sarah MacLean. This is probably my favorite book of yours that I have read so far, but I waited way too long to review it, and now I’m going to have precious little to say about it. Here’s the Goodreads summary, which is as much for my benefit as yours: “A lady does not smoke cheroot. She does not ride astride. She does not fence or attend duels. She does not fire a pistol, and she never gambles at […]

Love by the Numbers

July 19, 2016 by Beth Ellen Leave a Comment

I started my first Sarah MacLean many months ago, but I didn’t get very far. The heroine started out pretty wimpy, and that’s not really my style. Fast forward a few months to a long weekend of just me and the little one, and now I’m four books in. But to begin the first series: Love by Numbers. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake is the one that started pretty slow, but I ended up being pleasantly surprised. This is the story of Calpurnia […]

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