I finished this on a bit of a book high, but in the three weeks since I finished it, it’s soured a bit in my memory. I think I will probably finish out both of the series she’s got currently running, and then reevaluate from there if I’ll read more of her books. Now that I’ve had some distance from A Duke By Default, it’s clear that yet again, Cole has written a book where I unabashedly love the lady and think the dude is […]
Just A Warning, Love – The Non-Fic Dukes Are Not Nearly As Fun
Our lovers, Portia and Tavish, get off to a bad start when a) Tavish forgets to pick Portia up from the train station, and b) Portia mistakes him for an attacker and maces him. This is one of my favorite ways to start a romance.
Read this for the awesome heroine.
I have mixed feelings about this one. It’s looking like Alyssa Cole is going to be a hit or miss author for me. I didn’t fully enjoy An Extraordinary Union for the same reasons I didn’t fully enjoy this one, I think, but I loved A Hope Divided. So I will keep reading her stuff and just know that going in the chemistry between her leads doesn’t always work for me. Really, I didn’t NOT like this book, it just didn’t work the way it was […]
Naledi does not have time for knock off Nigerian email scams.
I was standing in the book section of my local Walmart having a revelation about how Trump became President when A Princess in Theory jumped out at me like a life line. I grabbed it in hopes that Alyssa Cole will become Walmart’s biggest selling author and they will look into the abyss that is their corporate soul. And don’t judge me, I had been given a Walmart gift card. Naledi Smith is a Public Health grad student in New York City specializing in epidemiology. Her […]