Mary Jo Putney – Cannonball Read 17

#NotAllMen, Historical Romance Edition

Once A Spy by Mary Jo Putney

September 15, 2019 by Emmalita 3 Comments

I have to stop doing this to myself. I have got to stop picking up Mary Jo Putney books. When I first started reading romance openly, I loved Mary Jo Putney because her characters had conversations with each other and talked about mental health issues in historical romance. I have changed and grown in the last 20 – 25 years and Mary Jo Putney’s books have not. If you are looking for the comfort of a familiar Putney narrative – Once A Spy delivers. If […]

This book should have stayed out of print

Dearly Beloved by Mary Jo Putney

May 14, 2019 by Emmalita 7 Comments

Someone decided it would be a good idea to re-release Mary Jo Putney’s debut novel, Dearly Beloved. They were wrong. It was not a good idea. This book should be put in the archives and only brought out as a bad example. I received this ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This review is dark and full of spoilers. Content warning – rape, sexual assault, internalized misogyny, verbal and emotional abuse Here is the plot, with spoilers. Gervase Brandelin, Viscount St. Aubyn […]

Simpering at a Lost Lord

February 7, 2017 by sarah_jwh 3 Comments

This review is for the audiobook version of Loving a Lost Lord by Mary Jo Putney. This is a book that was maybe ruined by the reader. She used a kind of breathy voice and made the heroine sound stupid, but not in words, in tone. The story is interesting enough, with a man washed ashore and a woman tending him through his amnesia, but the simpering voice of the reader made the heroine really unlikable. It has some interesting ideas in it, a man […]

No rogues here, just a boring tale

January 27, 2017 by Mikki Blu 5 Comments

Well, I’ve not read anything by Mary Jo Putney before, so this was an impulse grab at the library. It turned out to be a bad choice – it was a bit of a dud. I wasn’t sure if I was going to finish it or not, but I skimmed through parts of it just to get through it. The plots (there’s more than one going on) seemed predictable, and the characters weren’t that memorable. The hero wasn’t a rogue in the least, either, so […]

I don’t think she knows what a rogue is.

February 25, 2016 by Emmalita 6 Comments

Honesty alert: I’m starting this review while only about 40% through the book because I need to let you know that this book is boring and shows no signs of not being boring. I’m not even going to put a spoiler warning on here, because you’ve either read this book, or you should not read this book, so it’s not really a spoiler because you are never going to read this book. From Amazon, because I can’t be bothered with the plot: Sometimes. . . […]

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