This is the second book in The Pink Carnation series, with events following on pretty much directly from the end of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. If you want to avoid spoilers for the first book, you should probably skip this review for now. Eloise Kelly has discovered the secret identity of the elusive British spy known as the Pink Carnation, but wants to discover more about the gentleman spies of the Napoleonic era. She goes with Colin Selwick to his country house, to search through the […]
Anothers Historicals Romances – The Bow Street Runners Trilogy
This trilogy does not feature the usual fancy people of romance which is a pleasant change. The Bow Street Runners were a precursor to a metropolitan police force in London and all three heroes work for the team. It’s a profitable enterprise and, assuming they conduct themselves ethically, an honourable one. Just try not to think too much about the realities of conditions for working people, in the prisons, or for the poor in Victorian London. Someone to Watch Over Me – Grant Morgan and […]
Another Historical Romance, but with an Adjacent Competitor [Cue Duelling Banjos]
Between the Devil and Ian Eversea by Julie Anne Long
Malin beat me to it… Tansy Danforth is isolated, orphaned, and looking to a family friend to help her both settle in a new country and, this is a historical romance after all, marry to gain access to her inheritance. Fortunately for Julie Anne Long fans, the friend is Alex Moncrieffe, Duke of Falconbridge who, along with Genevieve his duchess, is from Long’s classic romance pairing in What I Did for a Duke. Tansy is staying at the Eversea estate in Pennyroyal Green while she […]
A Regency romance heavy on the flirting
Miss Titania “Tansy” Danforth is all alone in the world. Her beloved brother was a soldier who died in the war of 1812, and her parents died in a carriage accident. Now she’s had to leave the home she knew in New York to travel back to England, where she hasn’t lived since she was a little girl. Her father’s will states that she’ll not have her fortune released until she marries a man approved by her new guardian, her father’s cousin, the fearsome Duke […]
Five Historical Romances, But Only Four Count
For every new historical romance author discovery, such as Juliana Gray, there is a little pile of disappointment at my bedside. So while waiting for the new Julie Anne Long, I have re-read the Hathaway series by Lisa Kleypas. If Courtney Milan is the reigning romance queen, she inherited the crown from Kleypas when she abdicated the historical genre. The five Hathaway siblings, Leo, Amelia, Win, Poppy, and Beatrix, were raised in eccentric academic family, happy in their seclusion when a series of events changed their […]
“My most ardent wish is that you, and everyone like you, will look up.”
Goodreads summary: “Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that way. After all, the last time she was the center of attention, it ended badly–so badly that she changed her name to escape her scandalous past. Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don’t get trampled. So when a handsome duke comes to town, the last thing she wants is his attention. But that is precisely what she gets. Because Robert Blaisdell, the […]
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