The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

I waited too long to read this one :(

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1) by Lauren Willig

January 15, 2024 by narfna Leave a Comment

DNF @ 47% Dang, two DNFs in one day (the other was The Sun and the Void)! I got 200 pages in to this and realized I felt like I was just wasting my own time, so I stopped. This is a book that ten years ago—so a LOT closer to when I actually bought it—I would have probably given it four stars and then read at least the next two books in the series. Instead, I waited a ridiculously long time (this is now […]

Those Frenchies seek him everywhere

July 17, 2016 by yesknopemaybe 1 Comment

3.5 Stars. This book was suggested by a friend who knows her romances, so I was eager to dive in. Unsurprisingly, this historical romp was a complete delight. Willig deftly weaved the main romance from the early 19th century into a modern story featuring a quirky student doing her dissertation on English spies during the Napoleonic era. Eloise Kelly has always loved stories about the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian, but she can’t resist a mystery. When she gets the chance to go to […]

Chick lit + historical adventure romance with spies = a very entertaining read

March 27, 2014 by Malin Leave a Comment

Eloise Kelly is an American history student trying to find material for her dissertation in England. Enamoured with the dashing gentleman spies of the late 18th and early 19th Century, like the Scarlet Pimpernel and his successor the Purple Gentian, what Eloise really wants to do is unmask the identity of the most elusive spy of all, the Pink Carnation, who is rumoured to have stopped Napoleon’s invasion of England in 1803. When Eloise is allowed to browse through a cache of letters and diaries […]

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