A Week to be Wicked, the second book in the Spindle Cove series, was among the first Regency romances I picked up that wasn’t Courtney Milan (obligatory Malin’s Top 100 Romances namedrop, since I found it there!) For whatever reason, it took me some time to get through the rest of the series, until now, where I suspect I have finished with its weakest entries. A Night to Surrender (3.5 stars) sets up the entire Spindle Cove premise and introduces all of the main players. There is […]
Hangups and hangovers
I do not know what do make of the cover model’s hairstyle, which looks very 2008 to me. Similarly, I had some trouble with this book, which in my view did not compare favorably to its two predecessors in this series. Let’s dig in: A Lady of Persuasion is about the spurned Sir Tobias Aldridge, whose then-fiance Sophia (from Surrender of a Siren) ran off and married some seaworthy fellow, and now Toby is put out over it and trying find comfort in his partyboy lifestyle. When […]
Two more novellas, which were a more successful venture than the last two
I definitely should not have spent a bunch of time in my last review bloviating about whether I like novellas or not, because it seems they’re all I have time to read recently. I’ve been waiting a long time for both of these to come off hold at the library, and perhaps it was the waiting making the reward all the sweeter, but these stories were both really enjoyable. I am not sure how else I can wax all poetical about the loveliness of Tessa […]
Three romance novellas, and I’m deciding how I feel about novellas
I haven’t read an overwhelming number of novellas, and at least one which you lovely folks seem to love has been on hold at my library FOREVER. So, in my limited experience, I’ve found them to be, mostly, pleasantly diverting but lacking true staying power. There are two — Courtney Milan’s A Kiss for Midwinter and Unlocked that I have liked a lot, but otherwise I’ve felt that the stores suffer from their shortened length. We lose characterization, or the conclusion feels rushed, or the driving conflict is either […]
A bit of a cliched mess.
This book didn’t really work for me as a whole, but I needed a fluffy dum-dum book very badly, so I enjoyed it anyway. A Lady By Midnight is the third book in Dare’s Spindle Cove series, a place where odd and unwanted women of England flock to recover from their traumas or get away and let their freak flags fly. The whole thing is a feminist fantasy, of course, but that’s part of its charm. Dare’s characters are ones who could never have existed […]
Is 2015 the year of Tessa Dare?
You know what they say — leave no stone unturned, no Tessa Dare unread. With this noble goal occupying valued space at the top of my priorities, every book that comes off hold at the library is a step closer to enlightenment. After my barely coherent fangirling over the second book in the Castles Ever After series, I was really looking forward to working backward to this one before #3 is released later this year (squee!) And I was not disappointed — Romancing the Duke (4.5 stars, tbh) is […]
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