Georgian

REVIEW: Something Wicked by Kalen Hughes

REVIEW: Something Wicked by Kalen Hughes

Dear Ms. Hughes, Yes, I’d heard of your name but I’d not truly looked into your books nor read any reviews of them. Now that I’ve read this freebie you sent me and have posted at your website, that’ll change. I have to say that the description of the novella doesn’t exactly match up to(…)

REVIEW: Seductive Secrets by Lynne Connolly

REVIEW: Seductive Secrets by Lynne Connolly

Dear Mrs. Connolly, As always, I look forward to your Georgian historicals. In the past, I’ve found them entertaining, informative, moving. When Samhain offered us their new releases, I eagerly snapped this one up. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for me as well as most of your past historical books. Has your hero Nick Seyton not(…)

REVIEW: To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt

REVIEW: To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt

Dear Mrs Hoyt, I love the beginning of a new series. New characters to meet, new situations to explore, new relationships to work out. Everything’s fresh and (hopefully) wide open. “To Taste Temptation” is, I believe, book one in what looks like a four book series if the fable at the start is our guide.(…)

REVIEW: A Lady’s Secret by Jo Beverley

REVIEW: A Lady’s Secret by Jo Beverley

Edited to add: Caution There’s a major spoiler in paragraph 3. Dear Mrs. Beverley, When you posted to one of my earlier reviews that your next book would be back in the world of the Mallorens and feature a rake with a ‘nun on the run,’ I started salivating. Me wuvs the Mallorens and Georgian(…)

REVIEW: Met by Chance by Lynne Connolly

REVIEW: Met by Chance by Lynne Connolly

Dear Mrs Connolly, I know we at DA (okay, me in particular) have harshed on some of your latest paranormal books but with “Met by Chance” I can happily say you’re cooking with gas again. After finishing this, I need to go back and try the first two books in this “Triple Countess” trilogy from(…)

REVIEW: Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased): A Georgian Ghost Story by Emma Collingwood

REVIEW: Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased): A Georgian Ghost Story by Emma Collingwood

Dear Ms. Collingwood, I both liked and didn’t like your novella Lieutenant Samuel Blackwood (deceased). I was attracted to it as soon as Jane offered it to us, because your email mentioned it was a penny-dreadful styled ghost story, and I love the ghost stories of the Victorian era (it’s set in Georgian times but(…)

REVIEW:  An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James

REVIEW: An Affair Before Christmas by Eloisa James

Dear Ms. James: An Affair Before Christmas is the first book of yours I read, and I did so without knowing where it is in your canon or how it relates to any other books (now I know that is it second in your Desperate Duchesses series). The title of the series reflects a heroine-centric(…)

CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: Forbidden Shores by Jane Lockwood

Dear Readers, Just as I had finished reading Forbidden Shores by Jane Lockwood (a pseudonym for Janet Mullany) and was getting ready to review it, I had a conversation about the book with my good friend Jennie F., who had also recently read it. Jennie’s comments were so insightful and thought provoking, and I enjoyed(…)

CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

The Serpent Prince is the final volume in the fairy tale trilogy offered by Elizabeth Hoyt. Jayne and I have both enjoyed Hoyt’s work despite the accusations of anachronisms. We both would rate the book a B, with me giving the extra plus on the end. The story is about Simon Iddesleigh who is seeking(…)

REVIEW:  The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

REVIEW: The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

Dear Ms. Hoyt, Many readers (including Jane and Jayne) have fallen in love with your debut, The Raven Prince. I wish I were one of them, but unhappily, I have to report that I closed the book feeling that the fan bus had left the bus terminal without me. As I sit here, figuratively waving(…)

REVIEW:  The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

REVIEW: The Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

Dear Mrs Hoyt, After I finally got around to reading your first book, “The Raven Prince,” I was hooked on your writing. I knew I had this book and [gloating] “The Serpent Prince” [/gloating] already on hand. Well, now that I’ve finished this one I’m starting to panic. Only one book left. “Gah!” as a(…)

REVIEW:  The Tyrant by Patricia Veryan

REVIEW: The Tyrant by Patricia Veryan

Dear Mrs Veryan, Alas, you’ve finally retired from writing your fabulous stories which have kept me enthralled ever since I was introduced to them. I can well understand why you chose to do this. As a friend of mine often says, “old age ain’t for sissies.” It is with delight that I find that rereading(…)

REVIEW:  Mistress of Willowvale by Patricia Veryan

REVIEW: Mistress of Willowvale by Patricia Veryan

Dear Readers, While not strictly part of the Golden Chronicles, MoW sets the stage for it and features lots of characters who appear throughout it and the follow up series, the Jewelled Men. It’s one of Veryan’s rarer titles and as such sells for lots of money. This is my second reading and while it’s(…)

REVIEW: Desperate Duchesses by Eloisa James

Dear Ms. James: Maybe I am not your audience. I love your writing which is full of historical detail and great dialogue. Each scenes is amazing. The theme that everyone wants what they perceive that they cannot have wove under and around each character and their interactions. What then, when that is the attraction, happens(…)

REVIEW:  Yorkshire by Lynne Martin (aka Lynne Connolly)

REVIEW: Yorkshire by Lynne Martin (aka Lynne Connolly)

This was originally posted last August. The book, however, was not in print anywhere as the author had moved publishers. I received notice that this is now available from Mundania Press in both print and ebook form. This is a favorite series of Jayne and mine and one of our first introductions to epublishing. Who(…)