Cat Sebastian

Double cannonball with a kissing book.

A Gentleman Never Keeps Score (Seducing the Sedgwicks, #2) by Cat Sebastian

August 28, 2018 by narfna 10 Comments

Cat Sebastian is now six for six. Not a stinker among her published books so far (though to be fair, I haven’t *loved* all of them (Unmasked by the Marquess was fun, but didn’t hit me in my swooners). A Gentleman Never Keeps Score, though saddled with a truly execrable cover*, features more of what I love about her books: two fully realized leads who have good chemistry, and who are kept apart not by asinine plot machinations and outside forces, but by character flaws and life circumstances and their own stubbornness. And any time there is a miscommunication between […]

8/28/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:104 |

Getting Back into the Swing of Things with a Sure Thing

The Lawrence Browne Affair by Cat Sebastian

June 14, 2018 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

I’ve been gone for a bit (no books read or reviewed in all of May), but I found my reading mojo once again. All I needed was a little break, and a kick start with a book very likely to be right up my alley. The Lawrence Browne Affair is the second in a series by Cat Sebastian. Like The Soldier’s Scoundrel, it is a historical m/m romance set in Regency England. This time around we’re following Georgie Turner, brother of Jack from The Soldier’s Scoundrel, as he is on the run from his underworld boss after having double crossed him. Jack sets him up with […]

6/14/2018 faintingviolet's CBR10 Review No:19 |

A non-binary Regency romance.

Unmasked by the Marquess (Regency Imposters, #1) by Cat Sebastian

April 27, 2018 by narfna Leave a Comment

Okay, so even if this is the first book of hers that hasn’t made me drool with unbridled enthusiasm, I still really enjoyed it, and it’s clear to me that Cat Sebastian is going to continue to publish books that I will enjoy reading. I think maybe I was just expecting a lot more from this than it was capable of giving? I don’t know. It’s also the first non M/M book of hers I read, but I don’t think that’s why I didn’t enjoy this one as much. So, the book. The first half of our couple is Robert […]

4/27/2018 narfna's CBR10 Review No:54 |

I’m always happy to discover a promising new romance author

The Soldier's Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian

February 4, 2018 by Malin 4 Comments

Jack Turner and his siblings grew up in the slums of London and they have all worked hard to get out from under the criminal enterprises of their parents. Jack’s sister is a dressmaker, while his brother seems to keep very posh and rarefied company these days. Jack uses some of the skills he’s learned over the years to help women in trouble. He can locate stolen items, deal with blackmail claims, even make an unpleasant husband disappear to somewhere far away – his only rule is that the women who hire him not question his methods, and let him […]

2/4/2018 Malin's CBR10 Review No:7 |

“He couldn’t be serious and stern with a man who had ducklings in his hair.”

It Takes Two to Tumble (Seducing the Sedwicks, #1) by Cat Sebastian

December 30, 2017 by narfna 6 Comments

I am basically trash for this author now. I have pre-ordered her m/f Regency romance that is out in April, so hopefully she’s just as good on that as she is with m/m. Fair warning, the next book in this series isn’t out until July and that is 1,000 years away. Also, this cover isn’t that bad (characters are way overdressed, and one should def be dressed like a vicar because come on, but it’s not ugly), and neither are the last two in her first series, but holy shit, the covers for her next two books are absolute eyesores. The dude […]

12/30/2017 narfna's CBR9 Review No:127 |

I seriously can’t decide which book in this trilogy is my favorite. I love them all.

The Ruin of Rake (The Turner Series, #3) by Cat Sebastian

December 30, 2017 by narfna 2 Comments

I’m so into this author right now, and I’m so upset she has only published three books so far. I want her next book right frickin now. (Out in two weeks, already pre-ordered.) This is the last book in the Turner series, and it’s just as good as the first two. We met our heroes last book. Julian Medlock is the brother of Eleanor Standish, Lawrence’s science friend, and Lord Courtenay his son’s uncle. Courtenay is the titular rake, an infamous scapegrace who has spent his entire adult life indulging in whatever pleasures came his way and never taking any […]

12/30/2017 narfna's CBR9 Review No:121 |

Cat Sebastian is now on my autobuy list.

The Lawrence Browne Affair (The Turner Series, #2) by Cat Sebastian

December 30, 2017 by narfna Leave a Comment

(FYI as of posting this review, this book is currently $1.99 on Kindle.) I’ve only read two books by this author, but she’s already on my auto-buy list. Traditionally published LGBTQIA historical romance novels are hard enough to come by (like, I don’t actually think I’ve ever seen one before??), but so far both of the books I’ve read by Cat Sebastian have been some of the best romance novels I’ve read, period. They’ve both had everything I look for in a romance novel: interesting characters who get under your skin, indulgence in romance tropes without becoming cliché, plots that […]

12/30/2017 narfna's CBR9 Review No:118 |

A Promising New Author – Romance Edition

The Soldier's Scoundrel (The Turner Series #1) by Cat Sebastian

July 13, 2017 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

The past few years I’ve been attempting the Read Harder Challenge put on by Book Riot, and hile I’ve completed it the past two years, I am not on track to do that this year. But, one of the tasks is LGBTQ romance, and there are always a TON of suggestions for Romance around the Cannonball Read. So, while on vacation I made sure I moved one to the head of the list. The Soldier’s Scoundrel is a historical m/m romance. It strikes me as in the Lisa Kleypas school of recognizable history with lovely smoldery romance woven in. Is […]

7/13/2017 faintingviolet's CBR9 Review No:38 |

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