A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / Historical / Regency / short-story / Ugly Duckling3 Comments
Angelique is a short story. “The Marquise de Chabernet, her French grandmother, had fixed her with glittering eyes and told her when she was but ten years old, ‘If there is something that you want in this life, mon ange, do not believe anyone who says you cannot have it.'” ... 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+ Reviewsblack MC / Historical / interracial relationship / m/m romance / queer / Regency7 Comments
Content warning: discussion of child sexual abuse Dear Cat Sebastian, I have the first book in your Seducing the Sedgwicks series, It Takes Two to Tumble, on my TBR but haven’t managed to read it yet. A Gentleman Never Keeps Score works well as a standalone however. Hartley Sedgwick is ... more >
B Reviews / B+ ReviewsHistorical / older hero/heroine / Regency11 Comments
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 >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / Historical / holiday novella / novella / Regency / Servants / Valentine's Day1 Comments
When the earl’s valet falls desperately ill with a fever the household isn’t sure what to do, until one housemaid steps forward to care for him. Sissy Devonport has known her share of grief. Her family was laid low by a fever that only she survived. Now a member of ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsEngland / Gothic / Historical / marriage-of-convenience / politicians / Portugal / Regency9 Comments
Camilla Forest has fallen upon hard times since fleeing France and the tyrannical rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. When her job as a governess ends in disaster, Camilla finds herself penniless and alone, stranded on a muddy roadside. A chance encounter with the notoriously aloof Lord Leominster presents Camilla with an ... more >
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