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January 27, 2014

REVIEW: Blood Royal by Diana Norman

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / Africa / class-difference / England / Georgian / Historical / Jacobite rebellion / lawyer / law related / POC / working class8 Comments

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Forced by Sir Robert Walpole into a distasteful marriage and then ruined by her husband’s speculation in the South Sea Bubble, Lady Cecily Fitzhenry vows revenge on the Prime Minister and all his myrmidons – including the creaking Hanoverian court and an obscure Scottish lawyer, Archibald Cameron.Nothing if not spirited, ... more >

January 20, 2014

REVIEW x 2: The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin

JanineA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended Readsclass-difference / Historical-China / POC / POC author / prostitute / Recommended Read / scholar16 Comments

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Dear Ms. Lin, Although I had purchased most of your novels, I hadn’t picked one out of my TBR pile to read since your debut, Butterfly Swords. Clearly, it was a mistake to wait so long to try one of your books again, because your most recent novel, The Lotus ... more >

January 2, 2014

REVIEW: The Gentleman’s Madness by Bonnie Dee,Summer Devon

WillafulB Reviews / Book Reviewsclass-difference / English Historical / LGBTQ / m/m / opposites attract / Victorian13 Comments

Dear Ms. Dee and Ms. Devon: An m/m romance between an attendant and an inmate in a Victorian insane asylum… I think I know why this was published after Christmas. It was actually less dark and considerably less dense than I feared it would be, which made it a more ... more >

December 25, 2013

REVIEW: Christmas at the Castle by Marion Lennox

SunitaB Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / class-difference / Harlequin Romance / Scotland1 Comments

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Dear Marion Lennox: I fell behind reading your releases in 2013, but when I saw you had a Christmas novel out in December I jumped on it. From the first couple of chapters I could tell that this was going to be a vintage Lennox, combining a fairy-tale holiday setting ... more >

The Marquess of Cake
October 2, 2013

REVIEW: The Marquess of Cake by Heather Hiestand

JulyBook Reviews / C Reviews Categoryclass-difference / diabetes / Victorian era16 Comments

Dear Ms. Hiestand, I was having a rocking good time with this book until exactly the 58% mark, at which point it seemed to jump some sort of storyline river, where extra development should have been or was and then got massively cut. It annoyed me so much I noticed ... more >

Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare
April 27, 2013

REVIEW: Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare

DabneyC+ Reviewsclass-difference / fairytale / Regency Romance9 Comments

Dear Ms. Dare, I may have had it with Spindle Cove, your Regency-era haven for unusual young women and the men who love them.* The place has become nettlesomely toothsome, rather like Gwyeth Paltrow gushing over adorable organic baby blankets. This novella, Beauty and the Blacksmith, is a quick, easy ... more >

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