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> Tag: Castles Ever After

another castle, another lord

When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare

June 3, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Clearly I am taken with this idea of inheriting a large foreboding house far away from society that is mine without a mortgage or property taxes (and, since we’re in fantasy territory, also comes with a healthy, symbiotic relationship with the people who work the land). As noted in the prior review for Romancing the Duke, the common thread is the aforementioned inheritance of a castle, sort of unbidden, and the appearance of an Aristocrat with a Painful Secret who wants said castle…by any means necessary. […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, Tessa Dare ·
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here starts the Tessa Dare run

Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

May 31, 2022 by wicherwill 3 Comments

WOOT the Tessa Dare run, here we gooo–definitely another #BlameMalin one here 😉 So the Castles Ever After series is tied together by the silliest and slimmest of plot threads: each of the main female protagonists are gifted a castle in some way or another, or are in possession of one despite being female, and there is a Duke or Lord or Laird or something or another who is either in the castle, thinks he should be in the castle, or flat out wants a castle and […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:38 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, Tessa Dare ·
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“She unsettled him; he anchored her. Together, they could be more than they were apart.”

Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare

February 3, 2022 by faintingviolet 3 Comments

I had a good time with Do You Want to Start a Scandal, primarily because it does one of my favorite things by putting a good deal of emotional intelligence into a character who may not be expected to have it and then let them deduce the world around them. It is deployed to good use as Charlotte Highwood goes head-to-head with Diplomat turned Spy Piers Brandon, Lord Granville after they are caught together during the Parkhurst ball but are not in fact the couple […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, Do You Want to Start a Scandal?, historical romance, mystery plot, Regency Romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, Do You Want to Start a Scandal?, historical romance, mystery plot, Regency Romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare ·
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“Here, tell me which scent you prefer. Lilies and whale vomit, or lemon balm and beaver’s arse.”

Do You Want to Start a Scandal? by Tessa Dare

January 11, 2018 by alwaysanswerb 2 Comments

I like Tessa Dare. I know her books are derisively considered by many to be HINO (Historical In Name Only) but that’s something that’s never bothered me, personally. I like that her characters have modern sensibilities, because I don’t want to read about a hero with traditional Regency-era attitudes toward women. I like that her books each tend to have a designated Element of Silliness (see: Romancing the Duke‘s cosplayers, Any Duchess Will Do‘s terrible knitting) and in this one it’s the recurring joke of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, Castles Ever After/Spindle Cove, female author, historical romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare

alwaysanswerb's CBR10 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, Castles Ever After/Spindle Cove, female author, historical romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare ·
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Was There A Kissing Book Writer Race to Use This Title?

Do You Want to Start a Scandal? by Tessa Dare

September 12, 2017 by Mrs. Julien 4 Comments

Tessa Dare’s latest Regency romance series is The Duchess Deal and I would recommend its first book, Girl Meets Duke, over Do You Want to Start a Scandal. This crossover story between Dare’s Spindle Cove and Castles Ever After novels, features the youngest of the Highwood sisters and longtime troublemaker, Charlotte, who has both eldest sibling Diana’s desire for a loving home and intellectual Minerva‘s sense of adventure. Piers Brandon, Lord Granville is an agent of the crown performing reconnaissance at a two-week house party in the English countryside. Devoted to his duty to King […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, historical romance, Regency Romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare

Mrs. Julien's CBR9 Review No:28 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, historical romance, Regency Romance, Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare ·
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You get a duke! And you get a duke! Everybody gets a duke!

Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

December 29, 2016 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

After reading the horribly grim Out, I need something lighter and sweeter to wash away the depressing aftertaste. A romance would work, I thought! So I picked up Romancing the Duke from the library and settled in with it. Unfortunately, although I liked it better than Out, the content practically gave me whiplash. I found parts of it too cheesy and it gave me a serious case of vicarious embarrassment. Izzy is a spinster with a book series doppelganger. Her father published the Isolde Ophelia […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, Fiction, romance, Romancing the Duke, Tessa Dare

yesknopemaybe's CBR8 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, Fiction, romance, Romancing the Duke, Tessa Dare ·
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