A- Reviews / Recommended Readsclass differences / custody battle / Historical / illegitimate-child / joint review / marriage-of-convenience / Regency / single dad19 Comments
PLEASE NOTE: What follows is what we decided to cut from the original review so as to save the spoilers for a later and separate discussion. The discussion below is FULL OF SPOILERS so be ye warned!! We are hoping readers who have already read the book will chime in ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsclass differences / custody battle / Historical / illegitimate-child / joint review / Regency / single dad21 Comments
PLEASE NOTE: We are planning a spoilerific discussion for later on, once the book has been out a little while and readers have had a chance to read it for themselves. The discussion below is spoiler-free. Kaetrin: Someone to Honor is book 6 in the Westcott series. In book one, ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews19th century / England / Historical / illegitimate-child / Regency5 Comments
Sophia has sacrificed everything for her younger sister, Lucy. She has removed them from the only home they ever knew, taken on the care of Lucy’s illegitimate son, George, and even assumed the role of a widow and mother in order to erase all hint of scandal from the boy’s ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readsheiress / historical romance / illegitimate-child / politicians / Recommended Reads9 Comments
Dear Ms. Milan, I’ve enjoyed catching up with your Brothers Sinister series this year despite a persistent reading slump. For this reason, I preordered the newest book in the series, The Heiress Effect, about a month ago. When it popped up on my kindle, I started reading. Miss Jane Fairfield ... more >
C- Reviewsfamily-reunion / grieving / illegitimate-child / Love-Triangle / Older-Woman-/-Younger-Man / Regency England25 Comments
The following review contains SPOILERS. The spoilers from late in the book are hidden, but others are visible. If you have never read A Promise of Spring and prefer to avoid spoilers, read this review at your own risk. Dear Ms. Balogh, A Promise of Spring, now being reprinted in ... more >
A Reviews / A- Reviews19th century / conversational review / Erotic-Romance / Historical Romances / illegitimate-child / novelist / older heroine and hero / Pam Rosenthal / scholar32 Comments
Janine: Since Pam Rosenthal’s previous book, The Slightest Provocation, provided us with some discussion fodder, we thought her newest, The Edge of Impropriety, might be fertile ground for a conversational review. Here is a description of the book, followed by Jennie’s thoughts and my own: The Edge of Impropriety begins ... more >