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“Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.”

Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

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This was a little on the nose in parts (mostly dialogue), but it was also full of spit and vinegar. I could feel Courtney Milan’s rage (tempered with good humor) on every page, and it wasn’t an incoherent rage, more like a well-harnessed one. The rest of her body of work shows compassion for men caught up in the same patriarchal system that puts women at an inherent disadvantage, but I guess she just needed let this one rip, just let out a pure expression of feminine rage. That it’s elderly, lonely, queer feminine rage makes it all the better. […]

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10/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:81 |

A Regency romance with a very foul-mouthed parrot

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

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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 announce are demanding Penelope’s return to the family estate in the country, she’s devastated. She […]

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9/22/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:66 |

This was very smouldery but I am being picky

When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons #6) by Julia Quinn

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So, this one was kind of weird! 3.5 stars, I’ll say, from the exact average of the first (great) half and the second (weird) half. Spoilers. But first, Goodreads summary: “In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

A historical romance involving smuggling, lady doctors, an escape heist and a daring rescue operation

A Rogue by Night by Kelly Bowen

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Sir Harland Hayward, Baron Strathmore, is something of an oddity among the nobility, in that he insists on not only continuing to run a shipping company, but he works as a practising physician, treating aristocrats and commoners alike. A less widely known fact is that he also helps his sister, the headmistress of the prestigious Haverhall School for ladies (a profession she has kept up with, even after becoming a duchess) to each year train some select students who are interested in becoming doctors as well. Harland knows that women can be just as capable, if not better, at certain things […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:65 |

An Historical Romance- and feminism!

Bringing Down The Duke by Evie Dunmore

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CBR11Bingo History, Schmistory Annabelle Archer has been down on her luck for a while now. A scandalous affair with a nobleman in her youth left her disgraced, and as she is an unmarried woman with no living parents she is dependent on her cousin to keep her. She has been working for his family for years when she finally catches a break- she has been admitted to the first class of women allowed at Oxford University. The catch is that as she has earned a scholarship sponsored by the National Society for Women’s Suffrage and as such must attend meetings […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:53 |

Spanning Years and Continents. Lives Ruined, Bloodshed. Epic.

The Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran

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I’ve had this novel on my Kindle for ages! I have enjoyed all the Duran romances I’ve read but some of them can get intense, and a romance novel set in India during the mutinies?  That topic definitely has the potential to get dark, and the fact that the novel opens on a shipwreck certainly means this is not going to be a light comedic romance. Emmaline Martin and her parents were on the way to British occupied India for Emma’s wedding.  She has been engaged to Marcus Lindley, the neighbor boy, since she was a child, a match made […]

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9/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:55 |

Welcome to the Grand Palace on the Thames

Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long

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I’m mostly familiar with Julie Anne Long due to her Pennyroyal Green series which followed two rival families, the Redmonds and Everseas.  I was glad to see that she had a new historical romance out, and I quite like the premise she is using for this new series. Lady Derring is newly widowed, and she discovers that her husband has left her with nothing.  Most of his property is entailed and going straight to distant male heirs, and then of course there are the debts.  The only thing that he owned outright that his widow can claim is an abandoned […]

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8/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

She’s Not That Kind Of Goat

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

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This is the third of the Girl Meets Duke novels, which involves a group of four eccentric women friends.  Penny has already been introduced as the vegetarian animal lover who makes horrible sandwiches with meat substitutes. This one was a delightful and ridiculous romp in usual Dare fashion, and I preferred this one to the previous novel in the series (I liked the heroes in The Governess Game, but not the some of plot points). A self made man, Gabriel Duke, has bought the property next to Penny’s family’s London residence (she is the sole human occupant, sharing with two […]

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8/25/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:43 |


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