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What if Cinderella was a handsome Jewish man and the prince was a determined and beautiful heiress?

Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman

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Isabelle Lira wants to take charge of her deceased father’s business, but is hindered from doing so both because she is a woman and because the Jewish community she lives in finds it unacceptable. So she must find a husband who will not object to her controlling her family’s interests, and who won’t be cruel, abusive or who will take advantage of her and her wealth. In order to find a suitable match, she is arranging three festival events, where all eligible Jewish men are […]

“why meet only six rather predictable men, when you could meet six hundred surprises.”

Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman

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Plot: Isabella Lira is in a pickle. Her father has just died, and beyond being emotionally crippling also throws the family’s enormous business into disarray. Her father’s partners want to cut her out, and only a man in her corner will save the Lira name. Fortunately, this is easily solvable – she is young, beautiful, perfectly cultured, rich, and goddamn brilliant. So, she goes husband hunting. Her criteria is simple: he must be charming, professionally capable, and always, always take her side. That means the […]

“Don Quixote in a corset”

Appetites & Vices by Felicia Grossman

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Regency novel set literally anywhere other than the UK and with a Jewish heroine? Say no more. Plot: Ursula is an heiress to one of the largest banking empires in America, but she’s also Jewish and possibly a tiny bit on the spectrum so her social life is best characterized as non-existent. Fortunately, she has her giant brain, her dad, who ferociously supports her giant brain, and her quiet goy friend Hugo, who also enjoys running away from social situations to talk about books. Well, […]

A Jewish Gender-flipped Snow White Historical Romance

Wake Me Most Wickedly by Felicia Grossman

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Wake Me Most Wickedly, the second in Felicia Grossman’s gender-flipped fairy tale retelling, but make it a Jewish histrom series, is a darker story than the first, Marry Me by Midnight, which was a gender-flipped Cinderella. It makes sense, Cinderella was forced into a life of servitude by her step mother, but Snow White’s step-mother* tried to kill her repeatedly. Between the repeated attacks on Solomon’s life and Hannah’s life lived on the edge of danger, this was a tense read. I liked it. Solomon Weiss […]

He suggests love is the answer, she thinks extortion is a safer bet.

Marry Me by Midnight by Felicia Grossman

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Felicia Grossman has been on my authors to read list for quite awhile. I follow her on social media and she seems like someone who would write books I would enjoy reading. I was correct. I found Marry Me by Midnight delightful. It is a gender swapped, Jewish Cinderella set in London during the late Georgian period (not long after the Regency). Isabelle Lira needs a husband to help her keep her portion of her late father’s surety business. His surviving business partners, the Berab brothers, don’t […]

Not all Holidays are Christmas

Love All Year: A Holidays Anthology by Elizabeth Kahn

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I loved this anthology of holiday romance novellas.  I knew I would. When Elizabeth announced she was putting together an anthology of romances centered around non-Christian holidays, I knew she would put out a thoughtful and entertaining book. I’m hoping this will be the first of many Love All Year anthologies. All of the stories were lovely, each in their own way. I wasn’t ready for any of them to be done when I reached the end. For the most part, the stories were about […]



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