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“It isn’t a weakness to accept kindness. It isn’t a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.”

What I Did for a Duke (Pennyroyal Green #5) by Julie Anne Long

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I was inspired by last year’s reviews of What I Did for a Duke by Emmalita and Malin to move this one up my to read list. I’m still struggling in 2021 with finding my ability to sink into books and last year I was able to most easily focus on Romance novels, so I was comfortable betting the same would be true now. It had been quite awhile since I was actively seeking time to dive back into a book, and What I Did […]

“Your hand is unconscionably soft, Miss Eversea”

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

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In the comments of my review of two contemporary age gap romances, Daddy Crush and Your Dad Will Do, Mrs. Julien reminded me of What I Did for a Duke. I first reviewed this back in 2015 and looking back at my review all I really see is how much I valued (and continue to value) Malin and Mrs. Julien. This book is a tour de force and I don’t think I appreciated that the first time I read it. I haven’t reread any of […]

Revenge in the form of pranks is dumb and other lessons

Angel in a Devil's Arms (The Palace of Rogues #2) by Julie Anne Long

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This is the sequel to Lady Derring Takes a Lover and it is excellent. I reviewed the first one a while ago here and unli ke most romance series where you can really pick up any book out of order, you’ll miss out on plot and meeting a lot of the characters that are central to this novel if you don’t read the first in the series before this one. Plot: Now that the Palace on the Grand Thames is doing pretty okay, the Way Full […]

Still just as good as I remembered it

What I Did for a Duke by Julie Anne Long

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I first read and reviewed this book back in 2011 (when it came out), during Cannonball III. My original review, which among other things contains a plot summary, can be found here. If you do take a look at my previous review (or just check my rating of this book), you can see that the rather unlikely romance between Miss Genevieve Eversea Lord Alexander Moncrieffe, the Duke of Falconbridge is one of my absolute favourites. I loved it utterly when I first read it back in […]

They shot the penis off a statue and somehow it wasn’t enough

Like No Other Lover by Julie Anne Long

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Julie Anne Long is a terrific author. She has a gift for creating fully realized characters out of even the most periphery characters that have virtually no space on the page. She treats her characters with intense, borderline radical compassion in a world that loves to categorize people into Good or Bad as quickly and irrevocably as possible.   This talent is probably why I am so deeply disappointed in this book.   Like No Other Lover is the second book in Pennyroyal Green series, which […]

Round 2 at the Boarding Home With Lots of Rules

Angel in a Devil's Arms by Julie Anne Long

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Angelique Breedlove and her business partner Delilah were on the brink of having to give up on their boarding house when an agent came in and rented their best room for his client for his convenience.  All of the previous novel occurred without their mystery guest, but now he is here. Lucien Durand, Viscount Bolt, has returned to London after years abroad.  In fact, most of society thought he had died, drowning in the Thames a decade before after a night of drinking.  Turns out, […]



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