Best Friends-Before-Lovers or We’ve-Always-Known Each-Other Historical Romance
When you read historical romance novels, you already know what you’re in for to a certain degree: you know they’re going to get together by the end of the novel, and there’ll probably be at least…...
View ArticleYour Scandalous Ways (Loretta Chase, Fallen Women #1)
4.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: This is a book full of details: the art, the poetry by Byron (down to his inconsistent spelling style), the Italian, the politics around divorce, the...
View ArticleTo Sir Phillip With Love (Julia Quinn, Bridgertons #5)
0 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: I hated almost everything about this book: the heroine is supposedly to be charmingly awkward, but spends most of her time being head-palm-strikingly-annoying, the...
View ArticleMr. Cavendish, I Presume (Julia Quinn, Two Dukes of Wyndham #2)
1 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: This is a book of wasted potential. It had a great set-up as the companion novel, happening at almost the same time as Lost Duke of Wyndham, but told from a...
View ArticleDon’t Tempt Me (Loretta Chase, Fallen Women #2)
0.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase This is a bit of a fake-out. Calling a series of women fallen implies to me that they actually should be… fallen, and thus different and distinct from the youthful...
View ArticleScandal Wears Satin (Loretta Chase, Dressmakers #2)
5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: While I don’t think that this book is for everyone (not even everyone who normally likes historical romances), it’s well-written, excellently executed, and sparkles...
View ArticleThe Bride Wore Scarlet (Liz Carlyle, Fraternitas Aureae Crucis #2)
3 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: This is a solid, slightly above average example of historical romance mixed with fantasy. You’ve got all the expected elements: the secret society, the people...
View ArticleDangerous Masquerade (April Kihlstrom)
4 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: I’m going to admit that I first read this book years ago, reread it, and liked for reasons that were half enjoyment and half nostalgia. This is a good,...
View ArticleThe Convenient Marriage (Georgette Heyer)
2 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: Though this has the trademark Heyer wit as well as the thoroughly well-crafted setting and side characters that you would expect, it’s just not very… romantic....
View ArticleRuined by a Rake (Erin Knightley)
0.5 out of 5 stars Cut to the Chase: There were portions of this book that either were interesting or, more often, could have been interesting, but overall, it felt both rushed and contrived. It was...
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