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You Know What They Say About Assumptions…

Lady Suspicious by Kate Archer

Convince Me, Viscount by Kate Archer

November 8, 2025 by Pooja Leave a Comment

CBR17 Bingo: Free (- Thank you for the extension! I’d given up on hitting blackout this year, but LOOK AT ME NOW.) Lady Suspicious – 4.25 stars It’s the turn of Lady Winsome, the sixth of the ironically named Nicolet sisters, to make her debut on the marriage mart. Armed with her knowledge of rogues from rumor sheets and gothic romances, she’s determined to make a good match – but the only man she’s interested in sets off all her warning bells. This is the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: ARC, cbr17bingo, comedy, historical, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency Romance, Romance, romcom

Pooja's CBR17 Review No:67 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: ARC, cbr17bingo, comedy, historical, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency Romance, Romance, romcom ·
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“Really, if one could not capture a moment in four lines, what was one doing? “

Write for Me, Marquess by Kate Archer

January 27, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Juliet, the youngest of the Bennington sisters, has decided that the man she marries must be a poet. And there’s even one in London interested in her – even if his haikus underwhelm her. Certainly a sporting man like the Marquess of Hamill will not suit her, no matter how handsome she finds him. This is the fifth book in the series, but not the final – for the sole Bennington brother remains to be wed. But Juliet is the last daughter, and I was […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, England, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, England, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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Romance Old and New

The Devil Drives by Jane Arbor

Sweep Me Up, Baron by Kate Archer

January 11, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

The Devil Drives – 3.5 stars As a new bride wed to the man of her dreams, Una should be bursting with happiness. But it turns out that her husband had ulterior motives in wedding her – chiefly, to revenge himself on her for the death of his young cousin. Leave aside the rather convoluted premise, as Zante’s reasons for blaming Una and plan for revenge against her alike are pretty silly, in the manner of olden time Harlequins. But the writing is lovely, bringing […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: contemporary, drama, England, Greece, historical, humor, Jane Arbor, Kate Archer, millionaire, Regency, revenge, Romance

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: contemporary, drama, England, Greece, historical, humor, Jane Arbor, Kate Archer, millionaire, Regency, revenge, Romance ·
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The Loyalty Test

Stand With Me, Earl by Kate Archer

September 29, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Viola is drawn to Roland, the Earl of Baderston, but she wants him to prove his loyalty before she’ll wed him. However, things go much farther than she expects when the rumors she starts about herself get out of hand… This is the third book in A Very Fine Muddle series, which are Regency romances about a very eccentric, unworldly family of debutantes. In my review of the second book I wondered how the author would pull off a heroine whose chief distinguishing feature thus […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:70 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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Bravery is Best

Be Daring, Duke by Kate Archer

September 25, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Rosalind Bennington wants her husband to be a courageous man – but in such a safe location as upper-class Regency London, this means having to orchestrate dangerous situations in which the Duke of Conbatten can prove his daring. This is the second book in the A Very Fine Muddle series, which follows five aristocratic sisters who have been raised by a fanciful hopeless romantic of an aunt and consequently have very fixed ideas on what their future husbands should be like. Learning from her elder […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:68 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, historical, humor, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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“It is a nice thought, is it not?” Beatrice asked. “That we can go forward as romantic lunatics forevermore?”

Romance Me, Viscount by Kate Archer

June 9, 2023 by Pooja Leave a Comment

Fanciful Beatrice Bennington insists she will accept only a lovesick man as her husband, but her neighbor Matthew, a viscount, is convinced that all she will end up with is a bruised heart – unless he can prevent it. Kate Archer has kicked off a new series of Regency romcoms about the Benningtons, a close knit family with an hopelessly romantic bend, due to the parenting of an eccentric aunt. I’ve always enjoyed Kate Archer’s romances, which generally lean very heavily into comedy, so I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: ARC, comedy, England, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance

Pooja's CBR15 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: ARC, comedy, England, Kate Archer, NetGalley, Regency, Romance ·
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