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December 13, 2022

Bridgerton, Season Two: A Discussion, Part I

JanineFilm Reviewscostumes / courtship / diversity / love triangles / marriage / music / sisters / social climbing / television series / tv adaptation / viscount2 Comments

Janine: Last year, Layla and I wrote a series of posts about the first season of Bridgerton, and early this year we wanted to do the same for the second season. By the time we finished writing that post, though, we felt it would be more appropriate to run it ... more >

May 5, 2021

What Janine is Reading: Lorraine Heath’s Hellions of Havisham

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews / DNF Reviews / Reading Lists1870s / 1880s / 19th century England / anonymous sex / class differences / countess / Duke / Earl / fortune hunter / heiress / historical romance / Impersonation / mistorical / pregnancy / Reading lists / twins / viscount5 Comments

I haven’t had the best experience with Lorraine Heath; both Sweet Lullaby and Waking Up with the Duke disappointed me. However, lately I’ve been desperate for an engaging historical romance and I was intrigued by the premise of book two in the Hellions of Havisham series, The Earl Takes All, ... more >

March 18, 2020

REVIEW: Dark Season by Joanna Lowell

JanineBook Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviewsdisability / epilepsy / historical romance / loneliness / medium / secret / tortured hero / viscount2 Comments

Dear Joanna Lowell, Your Victorian-era historical romance, Dark Season, came to my attention via this article in Publishers Weekly. The article mentioned that you are a professor who writes literary fiction under the name Joanna Ruocco, and that you have received the prestigious Pushcart Prize. This, in addition to the ... more >

February 12, 2018

What Janine is Reading: Hathaways Edition

JanineA- Reviews / B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C ReviewsEarly Victorian / historical romance / hotelier / Reading lists / Romany / Soldier / St.-Martins-Press / viscount13 Comments

In the mid-2000s, Lisa Kleypas published a series of historical romances set in mid-Victorian England, featuring the eccentric Hathaway family, four unconventional sisters, their charming wastrel of a brother, who had unexpectedly inherited a viscountcy, and the surly Romany man their parents all but adopted. I read none of the ... more >

August 9, 2016

REVIEW: The Advent of Lady Madeline by Pamela Sherwood

JanineB ReviewsChristmas / historical romance / Late Victorian / theater / viscount / Yorkshire4 Comments

Dear. Ms. Sherwood, I bought this 109-page Christmas novella around the holidays and it sat on my kindle until July, when I decided to read it. The novella, set in England a bit before Christmas of 1879, begins with a conversation between Hugo Lowell, Viscount Saxby, and his sister, Charley. ... more >

April 18, 2016

JOINT REVIEW: Secrets of a Soprano by Miranda Neville

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviewsjoint review / opera / Opera Singer / viscount / widow9 Comments

Robin and I have both enjoyed Miranda Neville’s novels in the past. When a recent review request for her self-published novel, Secrets of a Soprano, arrived in our inboxes, both of us jumped on it. We decided to review the book together. –Janine Janine: Fittingly, Secrets of a Soprano begins ... more >

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