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I’m so glad your first historical romance in several years was actually GOOD, Ms. Long!

Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long

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From Goodreads: A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpool, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval hero tracks a notorious smuggler to a London boarding house known […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:25 |

“And it wasn’t like JT was the Buddha or some sage. He was just another human who was trying to figure it all out, same as she was. But he’d just said all the right words in a row.”

Hot in Hellcat Canyon by Julie Anne Long

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Did you ever start book one of a series, or of a new to you author, and a few pages in, you’ve got to take a break and log in to your library and see how many of their other books you can put on hold? Yeah, so that was me, about fifteen pages into Hot In Hellcat Canyon, a contemporary romance, by Julie Anne Long.  And it turns out, Ms. Long is not exactly a new to me author – Goodreads tells me I have, in fact, read one of her historicals (I Kissed an Earl), and that I immediately then added […]

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6/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

A Long Awaited Return to Historical Romance

Palace of Rogues: Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long

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Huzzah, Julie Anne Long has returned to Regency historical romances. Granted, the cover is displeasing, but the contents are not. Delilah, Lady Derring is not only recently widowed, she’s also discovered she is virtually penniless, and had the delightful experience of meeting her husband’s mistress, Mrs. Angelique Breedlove, immediately on the heels of the first two shocks. Showing disregard for the notion that they are competitors,  and demonstrating intestinal fortitude and chutzpah, Delilah and Angelique take the jewels they have from the erstwhile Earl Derring and invest them all in the only thing left to them – a derelict townhouse […]

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6/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

Single mums need love too

The First Time at Firelight Falls by Julie Anne Long

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Ten years ago, Eden Harwood had a daughter, Annelise, and she has refused to tell anyone who the mystery dad is. Working as a florist, volunteering in the PTA, she’s dedicated herself to being the only parent her daughter could need and giving her the best upbringing she possibly can, to the point where pretty much every moment of her existence is scheduled. She doesn’t have time for anything except work and her daughter. Recently, though, Annelise has become more interested in the idea of a dads and what hers is like. Gabe Caldera is used to the attention of […]

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6/24/2018 's CBR10 Review No:49 |

Random Pennyroyal Green Selection

It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long

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I’ve read another book since having finished Julie Anne Long’s It Happened One Midnight, so I have forgotten some of the particulars, but I enjoyed another entry of the Pennyroyal Green series that seems so endless. This particular book, the eighth, is the story of Jonathan Redmond (third son of an aristocrat of unremembered rank) and Thomasina de Bellesteros, a popular, mysterious and attractive women who entertains in an eccentric Countess’ salon every week. Jonathan Redmond is a rake, or so his character description and narrative implies, though we have little evidence in the actual story. He mentions having been […]

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6/20/2018 's CBR10 Review No:21 |

Spoiler alert: there is very little dancing, and none that can be described as dirty in this book

Dirty Dancing at Devil's Leap by Julie Anne Long

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Avalon Harwood and Maximillian “Mac” Coltrane spent pretty much every summer together growing up, when the wealthy Coltrane family visited their giant mansion. First they were the best of friends, which developed into something more, until at seventeen, Mac broke Avalon’s heart when she heard him talking dismissively about her to his father. They never saw each other again, until now. In the intervening years, Avalon has developed a highly successful app and runs her own tech company out of San Francisco. Mac’s father was arrested for fraud and embezzling and his family lost all their money. No one really […]

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9/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:82 |

An old favorite is still great on another read through

Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

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I have read this book several times before, but I’ve never reviewed it, so here we are!  The other day I was going to ask the lovely CBR romance ladies for a recommendation.  I wanted a historical with a house party, good banter, not too many outside plot distractions…and was going to cite this book as an example of what I wanted.  Then I realized that I really just wanted to read this one again (but other suggestions that meet that criteria are always welcome!).  Long’s Pennyroyal Green series is probably my all time favorite historical series.  Some I reread […]

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3/21/2017 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

Julie Anne Long tries her hand at a contemporary romance. She should stick with her historicals…

Hot in Hellcat Canyon by Julie Anne Long

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Julie Anne Long has a lot of credit with me. She wrote What I Did for a Duke, which is a top 5 all time, top 3 historical romance for me. It is wonderful and amazing and you all should go read it right now. I’ll write about this mediocre effort while I wait. Ms. Long has decided to try her hand at contemporaries. Her effort is there. There’s some smolder there, but overall it just wasn’t the same. John Tennessee McCord, famous tv actor, ends up in Hellcat Canyon (tiny town out near Tahoe), when his truck breaks down […]

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11/14/2016 's CBR8 Review No:58 |


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