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Posts Tagged ‘England’

REVIEW: Lord Sin by Kalen Hughes

By Jayne • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms Hughes,
It won’t take people long to realize that this book is something different. It’s not just that it isn’t a Regency or that it’s not about vampires and that it doesn’t have any Navy SEALS littering the narrative. It’s a Georgian English historical, and I don’t think there can be [...]



REVIEW: The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

By Jayne • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms Johnson,
Since I love historical fiction, I checked out “The Tenth Gift” when I saw it listed at Fictionwise. The blurb intrigued me but not enough to immediately buy it. But I kept going back and looking at it. Something about it wouldn’t let me go and when Fictionwise offered [...]



REVIEW: My Lord and Spymaster by Joanna Bourne

By Jennie • Jun 24th, 2008 • Category: C Reviews, C Reviews Category

Dear Ms. Bourne,
I was enthralled with the first half of your recent book, The Spymaster’s Lady. A smart hero, a plucky (in a good way) heroine and beautiful prose had the book well on the road to being a solid A for me. Unfortunately, in the second half of the book the heroine underwent [...]



REVIEW: The Spymaster’s Lady by Joanna Bourne

By Janine • May 19th, 2008 • Category: DNF Reviews

Dear Ms. Bourne,
It’s taken me a while to get around to reading your debut, The Spymaster’s Lady. Back in the winter, Robin asked me if I would review it in a conversational review with her before your next book came out, and I promised that I would. When I got to reading [...]



REVIEW: Catching Midnight by Emma Holly

By Janine • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: C Reviews Category, C+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Holly,
A few years ago, I read your historical romance Beyond Innocence. While I didn’t love the book, I thought it was better than average and I especially liked your writing voice, so much so that I quoted from it in my opinion piece on style. Therefore, when Janet (Robin) recommended Catching [...]



REVIEW: A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

By Janine • Mar 17th, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Ibbotson,
When Azteclady asked me to review one of your romances, I was both excited and challenged. You pack so many irresistible characters into less than three hundred pages that it is difficult to do justice to these delightful folk. And how would I explain the magic by which you can take [...]



REVIEW: Shadows of the Night by Lydia Joyce

By Janine • Mar 5th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Ms. Joyce,
When we first encounter Colin Radcliffe, the hero of your fifth book, Shadows of the Night, it is the morning of his wedding day and he has just risen from the bed he shared with Emma Morel, his married mistress. Colin agrees to Emma’s suggestion that they spend a few months apart [...]



REVIEW: The Perils of Pleasure by Julie Anne Long

By Janine • Feb 15th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category

Dear Ms. Long,
Of the authors writing historical romance, you are one of my absolute favorites. Not too long ago, I sang the praises of your previous book, The Secret to Seduction, in what is one of the longest, most detailed reviews I have ever written.
After I finished reading that book, I was tremendously excited [...]



REVIEW: Billionaire’s Marriage Mission by Helen Brooks

By Jane • Feb 8th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Brooks:
My introduction to your books was His Christmas Bride which was part of the one Click December Buy. I really enjoyed it and have been buying as many Brooks books as I could lay my hands on. Imagine my excitement when The Billionaire’s Marriage Mission was being offered. It was originally published as [...]



REVIEW: His Rebel Bride by Helen Dickson

By Jayne • Nov 7th, 2007 • Category: D Reviews, Ebooks, Reviews

Dear Ms. Dickson,
I should have loved this book. It’s about one of my favorite times in history. Seventeenth century England. Cavaliers. Derring do. A time when history turned on a dime. And maybe 10 or 20 years ago I probably would have enjoyed it. But instead I found it boring, filled with little history lectures, [...]