Maiden Lane Series – Cannonball Read 17

Every romance has a Happily Ever After but this series has sisterhood too

Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt

Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt

Lord of Darkness by Elizabeth Hoyt

Duke of Midnight by Elizabeth Hoyt

Darling Beast by Elizabeth Hoyt

March 11, 2019 by alphabootoo Leave a Comment

My first review for Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series was not particularly effusive but as I have continued on in the series I have come to appreciate it more. Hoyt tells stories that interweave with various threads being teased in every book. There is a large cast of main characters who generally connect in some way. And while these are romances, with the requisite strapping heroes and irresistable heroines, there is also the Ladies’ Syndicate for the Benefit of the Home for Unfortunate Infants and […]

Notorious Pleasures is the title, not the reading experience

Notorious Pleasures by Elizabeth Hoyt

February 20, 2019 by alphabootoo Leave a Comment

I read the first book in this, the Maiden Lane series, but didn’t do a write up for it before starting book two and now it has sort of evaporated out of my head so I am just going to skip that one and go straight into Notorious Pleasures. Notorious Pleasures deals with Lady Hero Batten, the lovely, proper, and dutiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, who is about to be engaged to Thomas Reading, the Marquess of Mandeville. The book opens with her […]

Where I have nothing nice to say about a book I didn’t actually hate

October 5, 2016 by alwaysanswerb 3 Comments

2.5 stars I’ll be perfectly honest — I think I’m in a little bit of a historical romance funk right now and I didn’t like this book as much as I could have. Let’s break it down. Plot There was too much plot and little of it was entirely reasonable. Plot 1: the romance, ostensibly. I’ll get more into this later. Plot 2: Temperance and the Foundling Home, needing a patron. This is part of the contrivance behind Temperance and Lord Caire’s “agreement,” where his […]

His Own Heart’s Folly

February 17, 2016 by Mikki Blu 2 Comments

This is the latest in the Maiden Lane series; a series that deals with both aristocrats and lower classes. The hero of this book belongs to the latter. Asa Makepeace is the owner of Harte’s Folly, a theatre/pleasure garden that burnt to ground at the end of one of the other books. He is determined to bring it back to life, with the financial backing of Valentine Napier, Duke of Montgomery. However, he hasn’t exactly been the best at keeping track of expenditures, and ignored […]

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