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January 4, 2023

REVIEW: The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews18th-century / Catholic / Georgian / Historical / inspirational / inspirational romance / Jacobite rebellion / Jacobites / Protestant / ScotlandNo Comments

In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley’s father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. But in a house ... more >

December 30, 2022

REVIEW: A Peculiar Enchantment by Kathleen Buckley

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1740s / 18th-century / cats / dysfunctional family / England / Georgian / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / Ugly Duckling12 Comments

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What can you look forward to when your only relatives call you ugly, unbalanced, and a scandal? What would you do if your only friend was threatened? Dependent on her half brother, the Earl of Lamburne, Adelaide knows. She wants to escape. Gervase Ducane, invited to Lamburne’s home to court ... more >

April 12, 2021

REVIEW: The Anglophile by Dell Shannon (Egan O’Neill, Elizabeth Linington)

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviews / D Reviews18th-century / Agent/Spies/Undercover / antihero / discrimination / fortune hunter / Georgian / Historical / Historical fiction / Ireland / marriage-of-convenience / prejudice4 Comments

Ireland, 1749. Dennis McDermott, a witty, charming and daring young man with shades of the Scarlet Pimpernel, lives two lives in eighteenth-century Dublin. Fashionable society idolises him as a handsome, rakish man of their world, never suspecting that he is the mysterious leader of the Irish underground whose nightly missions ... more >

July 5, 2019

REVIEW: The Swynden Necklace by Mira Stables

JayneA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / Bath / class differences / Commoner Aristocracy pairing / England / Georgian / Historical / sweet romance13 Comments

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She only knew that she was his to command; that her body thrilled to his lightest touch, her heart leapt at his smile; and that he was not for her. Honor Fenton was lovely, but penniless. There seemed to be little in her future but spinster-hood. Then one day she ... more >

March 18, 2019

REVIEW: The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads18th-century / England / Georgian / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / Older Man/Younger Woman12 Comments

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Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family’s happiness. Everyone knows she’s no beauty, but she’ll do ... more >

March 8, 2019

REVIEW: The Beau and the Bluestocking by Alice Chetwynd Ley

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsBluestocking / enemies to lovers / England / Georgian / Historical / Rake Hero6 Comments

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1782, London Alethea Newnham is a young woman with decided literary tastes, to the extent that she is called a Bluestocking by the gossips of Town. Educated in the country by her scholarly father and raised as an equal with her brothers, Alethea finds it difficult to play romantic games ... more >

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