B Reviews / B+ Reviews / C+ ReviewsADHD / Contemporary / Duke / grumpy hero / interracial relationship / Scotland / sword making32 Comments
Dear Alyssa Cole, I was so excited to read this book. The cover is gorgeous and the book itself had a great start – with lots of fun humour and strong characterisation. I was wearing out the highlighter function on my reader with all the quotes I wanted to put ... more >
B Reviews / B+ ReviewsDuke / family-reunion / Historical / long lost heiress / martial arts / orphans / Regency / reversal of fortune13 Comments
Back in August, after Someone to Love came up on Twitter, Kaetrin and I decided to review it together. -Janine Janine: Someone to Love, Mary Balogh’s latest historical romance, launches a new and intriguing series. The novel begins with a meeting between Mr. Brumford, solicitor to the late Earl of ... more >
C Reviews / C+ Reviewsarranged-marriage / Duke / historical romance / mistaken-identity / romantic comedy / Traditional Regency19 Comments
Trigger warning: ableist language Dear Ms. Balogh, By my count I’ve read some twenty-five of your traditional regencies, those slim volumes published by Signet between 1985 and 1998. By now, I thought I knew what to expect from those books: fascinating character studies powered by psychological acuity and emotionally charged ... more >
B- ReviewsDuke / England / heiress / historical romance / Late Victorian / Marriage-in-Trouble / marriage-of-convenience9 Comments
The following review contains some spoilers. -Janine Dear Ms. Weaver, Carina Press sent DA a review request describing three new releases, one of which was A Duchess in Name. The novel sounded intriguing, so I gave it a shot. When I got the email with the ARC, I clicked on the attachment to see ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Bechdel / Book-club / DRM / Duke / Ebooks / Germany / microaggressions / Netherlands / poetry / Poland / Race / sexual identity / Tolkein12 Comments
Group of black women kicked off Napa wine train after laughing too loud -What happened to this book club on the Napa Valley Wine Train is pretty much the definition of microaggression. It’s also just plain gross. After some complaints that the eleven women were too “loud,” they were “paraded” off ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Need A Rec! / Recommended ReadsArt / Duke / England / governess / historical romance / Recommended Reads / revenge / Wild Quartet series7 Comments
Rose: Having enjoyed the previous books in Neville’s Wild Quartet, I was looking forward to Julian’s story, The Duke of Dark Desires (despite the unappealing alliterative title) and was not disappointed. Janine: Although Julian wasn’t my favorite of the characters in this series after the way he tried to come ... more >
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