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REVIEW: Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase

By Jayne • Jun 3rd, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Chase,
Huzzah! I’m definitely on a roll with you. Last year there was [insert Lady title] and this year it’s “Your Scandalous Ways.” Tired of Regency set books? Tired of English gentleman spies? Well, I would have said so before reading this book. After finishing it…nah, not so much. And a real courtesan [...]



REVIEW: Your Scandalous Ways by Loretta Chase

By Jane • May 8th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Jane:
At the beginning of Lord of Scoundrels, a book that has been in print since its first publication in 1995, Lord Dain meets Jessica Trent for the first time
She was not classic English perfection, but she was some sort of perfection and, being neither blind nor ignorant, Lord Dain generally recognized quality when he [...]



REVIEW: The Courtesan’s Secret by Claudia Dain

By Jane • May 7th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Dain:
Women in the Regency period had but few choices in life. A society woman had only one: be married. I see these books as showing how women in society flirted and schemed to achieve the best result possible which was marriage to a well favored man that they actually liked. [...]



DUELING REVIEW: Forbidden Shores by Jane Lockwood

By Janine • Oct 17th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

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 [...]



REVIEW: Claiming the Courtesan by Anna Campbell

By Janine • May 9th, 2007 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Campbell,
Much has been said about your debut, Claiming the Courtesan. Arguments raced round and round the blogosphere; discussions sprouted from here to Jennifer Crusie's blog. After reading comments from people who reviled the book to comments from people who adored it, I decided to read it and see for myself what [...]



REVIEW: Claiming the Courtesan by Anna Campbell

By Janet • Mar 30th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Readers were arguing about Anna Campbell's debut, Claiming the Courtesan, before it was published. An Avon historical that was actually offending readers? This I had to see. And as I sat down to read, I expected to be shocked, looked forward to it, even, because I was really craving a book that [...]



REVIEW: The Courtesan by Julia Justiss

By Jane • Apr 29th, 2006 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Justiss:
Beautiful cover. Writing for these upper tiered lines at Harlequin must make you thrilled because you can usually expect a gorgeous, arty cover which is what convinced me to buy this book in the first place. I have a love/hate relationship with courtesan novels. Usually the courtesan is a faux [...]