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You Can Call Me Fred, If You’re Nasty

Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette

June 8, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15 Passport France Talk about your groomers.  Fin du siècle France, and the world of the grandes horizontales.  Léa, the epitome of her genre, has taken on the son of one of her compatriots, to tutor him to please a future wife.  She is in her fifties, and he is but fifteen, but that is as it should be.  He is devastatingly beautiful, and his mother trusts her friend to bring him up to par for the matrimonial market, shall we say.  Alas. after six […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR15 passport, Classy dames, colette, French Lit, Groomer alert, la belle epoque, So very not MAGA friendly

elderberrywine's CBR15 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR15 passport, Classy dames, colette, French Lit, Groomer alert, la belle epoque, So very not MAGA friendly ·
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Riches and Wonders

February 11, 2018 by Ellesfena Leave a Comment

What a strange little book. The Beautiful Ones is the story of three people: Antonina “Nina” Beaulieu, her cousin Valerie, and the telekinetic performer Hector Auvray. Hector and Valerie have a tragic romantic history, and when their paths cross again during Nina’s first Grand Season in the big city, she is drawn, unwittingly, into a romantic triangle with the two of them. At its heart, The Beautiful Ones is pretty standard romance. It has some noteworthy trappings, however. It appears to take place during La Belle Epoque, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: fantasy, la belle epoque, romance, silvia moreno-garcia, telekinesis

Ellesfena's CBR10 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: fantasy, la belle epoque, romance, silvia moreno-garcia, telekinesis ·
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