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February 14, 2018

REVIEW: Fortune Said: A Valentine Haberdashers Tale (Haberdashers Tales Book 2) by Sue London

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEngland / Historical / holiday novella / novella / Regency / Servants / Valentine's Day1 Comments

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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 >

December 13, 2017

REVIEW: A Common Christmas (Haberdashers Tales Book 1) by Sue London

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / holiday novella / London / novella / Regency / Servants2 Comments

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A young woman, desperate to have one last lovely Christmas, brings the spirit of the season to the Harrington household. Grace Ashman has lost everything: her mother five years ago, and now her father and her home just a week before Christmas. She lives on the streets until one kind ... more >

November 11, 2016

REVIEW: A Christmas Kiss by Elizabeth Mansfield

JayneA Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / England / Historical / Older Man/Younger Woman / Regency / Servants4 Comments

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During the holiday season, a governess loses her heart to an earl with no intention of marrying again, in this Cinderella story set in Regency England. After defending her virtue by striking the besotted son of her employer, Miss Evalyn Pennington is discharged from her position under a cloud of ... more >

April 16, 2015

REVIEW: It Started with a Scandal by Julie Anne Long

JanineDNF Reviewsclass-difference / historical romance / Pennyroyal Green series / prince / Regency England / Servants18 Comments

Dear Ms. Long, At one time, I was a big fan of your historical romances. I discovered you with Beauty and the Spy and eagerly awaited the publication of each book in the Holt Sisters trilogy. When you switched publishers and embarked on your Pennyroyal Green series, I kept reading, ... more >

January 15, 2015

REVIEW: An Appetite for Violets by Martine Bailey

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews18th-century / class-difference / cooking / England / France / Historical / Italy / Servants4 Comments

“That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. Then you find something, something you should not have found.” Irrepressible Biddy Leigh, under-cook at forbidding Mawton Hall, only wants ... more >

October 9, 2013

REVIEW: Longbourn by Jo Baker

JayneB+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsHistorical / Jane Austen / Regency England / Servants22 Comments

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Dear Ms. Baker, Usually when I see a book that is in some way based on Jane Austen’s novels, I shy away from it. Though I’ve only read a fraction of the multitude ones that have been published, I find myself sick to death of variations on Austenlandia – the ... more >

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