Sarah Maclean – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

A series of 4* romances that I’ve read!

Don't Hate the Player by Alexis Nedd

Ten Things I Hate About the Duke by Loretta Chase

The Soulmate Equation by Christina Larsen

Portrait of a Scotsman by Evie Dunmore

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

October 16, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Don’t Hate the Player I did not expect to like this as much as I did! It’s a lovely, charming story with engaging lead characters and just the right level of stakes given their relative ages. The story is your classic “I have two lives” hyper focused female lead, except in this case she is both a straight A field hockey type with a tiger mom and a pretty good eSports player on a team that’s one step away from just being called Evil Guys. […]

Well now I am a romance reader

Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean

Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean

September 16, 2021 by Leslie 4 Comments

In a previous Cannonball Read post I referenced not reading romance. I need to amend that post–I used to not read romance; now it is almost all I read. I’ve been puzzling through why, and I’ve settled on the idea that romance is very formulaic. This is usually considered a defect in literature, but I’d argue that formulas exist for a reason (Shakespeare and Austen are formulaic), and at this point in the pandemic, the a work of television, film, or literature that works well […]

There was a game he could see and another he couldn’t, and he would play them both.

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington

July 3, 2021 by Emmalita 7 Comments

My formative King Arthur works were the 1963 Disney movie The Sword in the Stone, and 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When I discovered Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, as a preteen, my life as a reader of fantasy and romance was set. I’m a King Arthur enthusiast, but not a purist (except for Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 King Arthur – great cast, beautiful visuals, terrible movie that should never have been marketed as “historically accurate”). Hearing that a work is a retelling of […]

Another shitty duke not grovelling enough to fully redeem himself

Daring and the Duke by Sarah Maclean

September 7, 2020 by Malin 1 Comment

Official book description: Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of London’s darkest corners. Grace has a sharp mind and a powerful right hook and has never met an enemy she could not best, until the man she once loved returns. Single-minded and ruthless, Ewan, Duke of Marwick, has spent a decade searching for the woman he never stopped loving. […]

Smuggler Meets Shipping Heiress

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah McLean

December 22, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Naturally, after Devil found love in Wicked and the Wallflower, it’s time for his quieter brother, Beast, to find his match. In this case, that match is Henrietta “Hattie” Sedley, daughter of shipping magnate. She has grown up watching her father manage his business, and is ready to take over from him – of course, being in 19th century England, she has to deal with gender stereotypes and an incompetent brother who is seen as the natural heir. In fact, she has her brother to […]

A historical romance with ice smugglers (bingo)

Brazen and the Beast by Sarah Maclean

August 3, 2019 by Malin 2 Comments

#CBR11 Bingo: History Schmistory (set in the Victorian era) On the eve of her twenty-ninth birthday, Lady Henrietta “Hattie” Sedly, aided by her best friend Lady Eleonora (Nora), the daughter of a duke, is planning on going to an exclusive brothel in Covent Garden catering to women. She needs to lose her virginity, so her father will stop trying to pressure her into marriage. Firmly on the shelf, Hattie has discovered that despite a generous dowry, no one actually wants to marry her. She’s too tall, […]

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