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> Tag: Girl Meets Duke

Realism? I barely know them

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

June 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Apparently Evin the Magnificent was going to recommend this book to me as well because she was certain I would like it and what do you know, she was right! Here we have another entry in the series better paraphrased as “Utterly Implausible Meet-Cutes.” One cannot really believe that any of the situations in these novels would actually happen. Does that really matter? …not really? The reason why this novel is my favorite is because it’s the least believable of the lot (winning by a […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:77 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare ·
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bit of a power disparity at play here, ymmv

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

June 3, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

In comparison to the last Girl Meets Duke (gag on that name) book, The Wallflower Wager (chronologically after this one, though), this book has a number more logistical loops one must jump over in order to get invested in the characters, along with a variant of a trope that I do not enjoy. And that is why this one gets three stars whereas that one got four. So to get it away with in the beginning: – the number of steps between Emma, vicar’s daughter turned seamstress, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare ·
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your tolerance for quirk will be tested (but rewarded!)

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

June 3, 2022 by wicherwill 1 Comment

Here we have a different series by Dare, as I was basically trying to skip around and find all of her best reviewed works. In these, as the name suggests, a female lead (seriously, do we need to call adult women girls) meets someone who is a “duke” either literally or not. In this case, we have a male lead named Gabriel Duke. It’s somewhat refreshing from time to time to read a book that doesn’t involve so much of a social leap as to […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare ·
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“She had a lifelong habit of extending care to animals too wild or frightened to accept it- which made her the bravest kind of fool.”

The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke #3) by Tessa Dare

January 3, 2020 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

This was not the book I was going to read next, but after the bummer of Royal Holiday I knew I needed a sure thing and a Tessa Dare book will always be a book that I quite enjoy. I pulled up the one I’d been saving, book three in the Girl Meets Duke series, and spent the afternoon and evening absorbed in Dare’s kooky version of Regency England. I love a fun, feminist, anachronistic romance novel and that is something that Tessa Dare delivers […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: faintingviolet, Girl Meets Duke, historical romance, reading women, RWA Implosion Read, Tessa Dare, the wallflower wager

faintingviolet's CBR12 Review No:3 · Genres: Romance · Tags: faintingviolet, Girl Meets Duke, historical romance, reading women, RWA Implosion Read, Tessa Dare, the wallflower wager ·
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Seriously, is no one else bothered about there being zero wagers in this book?

The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke, #3) by Tessa Dare

December 21, 2019 by narfna 2 Comments

Much better than her last book. And for once the hero isn’t a man who thinks he’s broken and thus doesn’t deserve love. She’s played that card way too often. The premise here is that Penny, the titular wallflower who resigned herself to being a spinster ten years before, has a ton of animals in her care, and her family is threatening to move her back to her ancestral home if she doesn’t: a) Get rid of most of the animals, b) Get a new […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Romance Tagged With: Girl Meets Duke, historical romance, mary jane wells, narfna, Romance, Tessa Dare, the wallflower wager

narfna's CBR11 Review No:124 · Genres: Audiobooks, Romance · Tags: Girl Meets Duke, historical romance, mary jane wells, narfna, Romance, Tessa Dare, the wallflower wager ·
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A Regency romance with a very foul-mouthed parrot

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

September 22, 2019 by Malin Leave a Comment

Lady Penelope Campion lives quite happily alone in London, aided only by an old, pretty much deaf housekeeper and surrounded by her unusual menagerie of rescued animals. There’s a highland cow, a goat, an otter, several chickens, a dog with only the use of his front legs, a whole bunch of kittens and a particularly foul-mouthed parrot. Her friends dote on her and even politely try to eat her horrendous vegetable meat substitutes without complaining or making a fuss. So when Penelope’s aunt comes to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: cbr11, Girl Meets Duke, historical romance, Malin, Regency, Tessa Dare, the wallflower wager

Malin's CBR11 Review No:66 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: cbr11, Girl Meets Duke, historical romance, Malin, Regency, Tessa Dare, the wallflower wager ·
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