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Posts Tagged ‘Georgian’

REVIEW: A Most Unsuitable Man by Jo Beverley

By Jayne • Sep 13th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Beverley,
First off, this book not only has many of the same characters as WINTER FIRE, it is a direct sequel. For readers who haven’t read that one or don’t know the world of the Mallorens, then they can probably muddle along as you do a good job of giving a [...]



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: Something Wicked by Kalen Hughes

By Jayne • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

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: A Lady’s Secret by Jo Beverley

By Jayne • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: A Review Category, A- Reviews, Reviews

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 historicals [...]



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

By ジェーン(Jān) • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: B Reviews Category, Reviews

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 the style [...]



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: Yorkshire by Lynne Martin (aka Lynne Connolly)

By Jayne • May 29th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Ebooks, Reviews

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 [...]



REVIEW: Secrets of the Night by Jo Beverley

By Jayne • Apr 9th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B+ Reviews, Reviews

Dear Mrs Beverley,
Once again you manage to take an almost unbelievable plot and get me totally involved in it. This is book four of the Malloren series and truly exemplifies the unofficial Malloren motto: With a Malloren, all things are possible.
Rosa, Lady Overton is in a fix. Well, actually everyone on her husband’s estate is [...]



REVIEW: Leopard Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

By Jane • Mar 29th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews Category, B- Reviews, Reviews

Dear Ms. Hoyt:
I’ve come to the realization that your books are not really historicals, but rather fairy tales set in the mid 1700s. As such, this story need not abide by ordinary societal rules which may restrict the fair maiden from her reward with a servant. This book, like the last [...]



REVIEW: Something Wicked by Jo Beverley

By Jayne • Feb 14th, 2007 • Category: B Reviews, B Reviews Category, Reviews

Dear Mrs. Beverley,
Book three of the Malloren series takes up right where book two left off. With the Mallorens neck deep in intrigue and sophisticated plots.
Lady Elfred Malloren has been pampered and over protected for all her 25 years by her four brothers. When fate leaves her alone in London with a married friend, she [...]