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Dear Ms Bassett (aka Elizabeth and Julia Bass),
The opening of “My Favorite Marquess” reminded me a lot of Laura Kinsale’s “My Sweet Folly.” Thank God your book stayed pretty good while that one ended up as a bit of a mess. Violet and Sebastian are two fantastic characters and the rest of the crew in this Regency Historical aren’t far behind.
I just knew when Violet headed off into the wilds of Cornwall to inspect the property she had wrested from the hands of her haughty ex-inlaws, that it would turn out to be far worse than anything she had anticipated after she refused to sell it to the equally haughty Marquess St. Just. I also knew that he would end up making her life hell while he tried to 1) get his hands on the seaside property in order to operate his spy ring and 2) check her out to make sure *she* wasn’t a spy for France.
Violet is funny, intelligent and a little bit vulnerable as the daughter of a merchant who’s married up in the world. I like that she manages to hold her own in the …
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