Bleh. I just did not like this book very much. I wanted something historical and heartfelt and I have loved everything else I have read by Carla Kelly, so I thought this would be a safe choice. It just wasn’t very good. There is a lot of plot packed in to one little book. James Trevenan was a sailor who survived a shipwreck and lived alone on a deserted island for five years (somewhere in the early 1800s – George III is still King, but […]
In War and Love Stories
So Ellepkay continues to just send me Carla Kelly books without asking if I want them or not. Turns out, she continues to be right in that I want them and will happily read them all! This time we have In Love and War a collection of four short stories that take place around-ish the Napoleonic Wars/War of 1812. These four stories are unlike a lot of romance on the market these days. In the first story the heroine is a Quaker and the hero […]
A girl in pants romance!
So today was a lesson that I clearly need to re-learn regularly. When Mrs. J and Ellepkay recommend an author just go find them immediately. Carla Kelly, I now know what a treat you are! Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career is the story of Ellen Grimsley, a studious young lady who dreams of learning and being more than a farmer’s wife. James Gatewood, Lord Chesney, is a studious young man who only has one year left at Oxford before accepting the responsibility of being a lord […]
As Primitive as Can Be – A Historical Romance
Beau Crusoe by Carla Kelly
My list of unread novels from Carla Kelly’s Regency romance catalog is ever dwindling. I have as much faith that I will get to all of them eventually as Kelly herself does in the innate goodness of people. Beau Crusoe, like Libby’s London Merchant, goes in a different direction from many romances and it was pleasing to read something a little bit different and from such a skilled and experienced author. From Amazon: Stranded alone on a desert island, he had lived to tell the tale. A […]
Sincere, Steadfast Historical Romance as Always with Carla Kelly
Libby’s London Merchant and One Good Turn are connected novels and more lovely, consistent, sincere stories from Carla Kelly. Clearly, I am going to read and find something to enjoy in every Regency romance novel in her catalog. This time, my attention was again captured by Kelly’s consistent strengths and minor imperfections (the enjoyable prose; the successful historical setting; her belief in the inherent goodness of people and it’s power to improve lives; her fascination with military history; and, her ability to create truly dastardly villains […]
A Lovely and Sincere Carla Kelly Historical Romance? Shocking!
The Wedding Journey is another lovely and highly recommendable Carla Kelly Regency romance about genuinely kind and likable people falling in love against the backdrop of war. I really enjoyed it at the same time as I realised that I have read too many of her novels too close together. All of Kelly’s best elements can be found here, as well as her one besetting sin minor shortcoming. Profoundly shy, Doctor Jesse Randall has loved Nell Mason for years. She and her family have followed […]