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JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Trust by Mary Balogh

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Kaetrin: I admit the Westcott family tree is a little confusing to me at times so I appreciated that Balogh went back over the relevant history just enough for me to remember who Colin Handrich, Lord Hodges, was to Wren, the Countess of Riverdale and why they had been estranged ... more >

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REVIEW: Someone to Care by Mary Balogh

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Dear Mary Balogh, I hardly know how to start with this review. I mostly liked it. I was uneasy about one aspect of it. I found some of it subversive in delightful ways and some of it just subversive. I expect it will be a controversial book. I expect it ... more >

JOINT REVIEW: Someone to Wed by Mary Balogh

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Since we reviewed the first two books in this series together, we decided to do the same with the third. ~ Janine & Kaetrin Janine:  Someone to Wed, the third novel in Mary Balogh’s Westcott series, begins with a social call. Alexander Westcott, the new Earl of Riverdale, has come ... more >

REVIEW: Irresistible by Mary Balogh

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Dear Ms. Balogh, Earlier this year, I blogged about Indiscreet and Unforgiven, the first two books in your Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series, which features four cavalry officers who served in the Napoleonic War. Irresistible is the third and final book in the series, concerning the last two horsemen, ... more >

What Janine is Reading (and Seeing at the Theater) in Late Winter 2017

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Unforgiven by Mary Balogh Recently I reread Balogh’s 1997 release, Indiscreet, and found that it still works for me. Since I’d never read the other two books in the Four Horsemen trilogy and they had all been recently reissued, I then decided to move on to book two, Unforgiven. Unforgiven ... more >

What Janine is Reading in Midwinter 2017

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Recommended Read

Perhaps this post should be titled What Janine is Rereading, since the books mentioned below are all books I’ve read before. Indiscreet by Mary Balogh This was my third time reading Indiscreet. I first read it in the early 2000s because it was recommended by a number of people in ... more >

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