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January 9, 2018

REVIEW: The English Wife by Lauren Willig

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAmerican historical / dual-timeline / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Gilded Age / Gothic / Historical / journalist / Late Victorian / murder mystery3 Comments

From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and murder. Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor ... more >

August 6, 2015

REVIEW: The Lure of the Moonflower by Lauren Willig

JayneB- ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Historical / Napoleonic wars / Peninsular-War / Pink Carnation / Portugal / road-romance4 Comments

Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman—especially not the legendary Pink Carnation. All of Portugal believes ... more >

July 22, 2015

REVIEW: The Other Daughter by Lauren Willig

JayneB Reviews1920s / England / family relationships / Historical / London2 Comments

Raised by her widowed mother in genteel poverty in the 1920s in an isolated English village, for the past six years Rachel Woodley has been working in France as a nursery governess. When her mother unexpectedly dies, she returns to England to clear out the cottage, and finds a scrapbook ... more >

August 7, 2014

REVIEW: The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla by Lauren Willig

JayneC+ Reviews19th century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / England / Historical / Pink Carnation / Regency / Regency England / vampires7 Comments

In October of 1806, the Little Season is in full swing, and Sally Fitzhugh has had enough of the endless parties and balls. With a rampant vampire craze sparked by the novel The Convent of Orsino, it seems no one can speak of anything else. But when Sally hears a ... more >

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December 30, 2013

Jayne’s Best of 2013

JayneA Review Category / A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Reading Lists / Top Ten ListsBest of 2013 / best of list21 Comments

The last few years I’ve done these year end lists, I’ve come up short of 10. I’ve realized either I’m not reading the right books for me, I’m too picky a reader or I’m totally out of touch with what’s popular right now. So when my list kept growing all ... more >

The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig
August 13, 2013

REVIEW: The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig

JayneB+ Reviews / Featured / Recommended Reads19th century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / England / older heroine and hero / Pink Carnation / Regency England16 Comments

Recommended Read

Dear Ms. Willig, At this point in my reading of the “Pink Carnation” books, I don’t bother to put much effort into checking out the blurb because I already know I’m going to read the book. So beyond noticing the exotic sounding flower of this book’s title, I waded into ... more >

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