William “Liam” Devaliant, the fifth Earl of Lockwood, is overpowered and kidnapped on his wedding night in Scotland, taken south and chained onto a prison hulk on its way to Australia. No one believes his mad story about being an earl, or if they do, they don’t care. Four years later, he’s back in London, a very changed man, determined to enact his revenge on the man behind the plot to have him abducted, his own cousin. All the male retainers in his household are […]
Oh, Lisa Kleypas, I keep hoping…
Doctor Garrett Gibson is the only female physician in England, trained in France and licenced before they got around to changing the rules so other women couldn’t follow her example. She has a good job, working as a staff physician at Winterborne’s department store. She also does pro bono work in the poorer parts of town, and it’s on her way home from one of these jobs that she finds herself accosted by three thugs. While she’s been trained in self defence, things start take […]
Revisiting an old favourite
4.5 stars A long time ago now, back in April 2011, I first discovered Courtney Milan as an author, having read favourable things about her on various romance review blogs. My original review of this book, can be found here. Fondly as I remember Ash and Margaret’s story, this is not the Turner series book I’ve revisited most often. According to my records, I’ve only re-read it once before, back in 2012, so I was very interested to see if it was as good as I remembered. I […]
She Can Never Be Satisfied
A Study in Scarlet Women is not a book I expected to like, not really. But yesknopemaybe’s review made me curious enough to download a sample and the writing made me curiouser enough to download and very nearly devour the book. It’s not what I thought.
What a strange, lovely little book.
I’m a little torn on this one, honestly! I thought it was a bit slow for my tastes, mostly at the beginning, and I would have appreciated a bit more wallowing in emotions, but I also understand this is a book designed in part to ape Victorian conventions and mores, so perhaps I was never going to get the version of this book that would have pleased me best. And what a strange little book it was! This is an alternate history/speculative take on quite […]
Or, How Not to Climb A Mountain
As someone who has paged through the expedition diaries of more than one Victorian explorer, I found a lot to like about The Ascent of Rum Doodle, a satire of those very types of people and their writing. But even if you haven’t has the pleasure of reading much in that genre, you may still find something to like within. Led by Binder, a man desperate to be the type of leader he’s read about but lacking any insight into himself and others and trying […]
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