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Flirting over artifacts and forgeries

Bound by Your Touch by Meredith Duran

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I’ve had Bound By Your Touch on my reading list for a long time, probably because at some point it was recommended by Malin or Mrs Julien or both. As per usual, a rec from these ladies turned out to be a pretty lovely romance. Heroine is Lydia Boyce, a spinster bluestocking (my favorite!) who works for her father in the trade of collectible Egyptian artifacts. Boyce Sr. is an academic archaeologist actively excavating, and Lydia is essentially his business manager back in Egypt. She earns her meet-not-so-cute with Viscount Sanburne when, in the middle of one of her lectures, […]

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7/1/2018 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

That’s One Way to Wake Up and Smell the Roses

That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran

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I picked this one up because after reading Fool Me Twice, since I wanted to read the story of the Duke of Marwick’s brother and Elizabeth Chudderley.  However, I think I may have been in more of a Loretta Chase mood since I also picked up Miss Wonderful around the same time to learn more about Alastair Carsington, the brother whose engagement Rupert refers to mournfully a few times in Mr. Impossible. Basically, it is not that this is a bad romance novel, but I think I was in the mood for a more humorous romance.  Not that this one […]

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6/21/2018 's CBR10 Review No:116 |

Does It Really Count As Twice If Someone Else Fooled You First?

Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran

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After The Sins of Lord Lockwood, Malin told me the rest of Duran’s novel were all good if angsty romances as long as I avoided At Your Pleasure.  As a result, I decided to go back a bit further in the Rules for the Reckless series but for some reason picked the second one rather than the first one. Who knows what my thought process was there.  Based on the references, I definitely want to read the stories of Marwick’s brother and Elizabeth, and Olivia’s viscountess friend so looks like I will be reading more Duran soon. This novel tells […]

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6/4/2018 's CBR10 Review No:103 |

If You Don’t Want Your Estranged Wife to Show Up, You Probably Shouldn’t Spend Her Money

The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran

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I picked this one up based on Malin’s review.  One nice thing about Cannonball Read is that with Malin, emmalita and Mrs. Julien, I had a nice list of go to authors handy when I finally decided to try romance. However, having worked my way through most historical romance novels by Courtney Milan, Tessa Dare, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Julie Ann Long, and Sarah McLean among others, I am always excited when I notice a review for an author I had not noticed before. This novel uses an estranged marriage plot, and due to the circumstances that led to the […]

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5/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:92 |

Back from the dead, the earl seeks vengeance

The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran

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This book is the latest in the Rules for the Reckless series, though it’s very easy to read as a stand alone.  It is linked somewhat to Ms Duran’s debut book, The Duke of Shadows, which I read last year but completely forgot about for the most part until the end of this one.  So whether that’s good or bad, I’m not sure, take it as you will. This is the tale of Liam Devaliant, Earl of Lockwood, who mysteriously disappeared on his wedding night to Lady Anna, a countess in her own right before their marriage due to her […]

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3/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Being kidnapped on your wedding night and sent to a prison camp in Australia – gonna have a bad time

The Sins of Lord Lockwood by Meredith Duran

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William “Liam” Devaliant, the fifth Earl of Lockwood, is overpowered and kidnapped on his wedding night in Scotland, taken south and chained onto a prison hulk on its way to Australia. No one believes his mad story about being an earl, or if they do, they don’t care. Four years later, he’s back in London, a very changed man, determined to enact his revenge on the man behind the plot to have him abducted, his own cousin. All the male retainers in his household are basically former convicts who survived along with them. In the eight months since his return […]

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3/19/2018 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Amnesia again, but handled so much better!

A Lady's Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran

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So this is the second book I’ve read this month with the amnesia trope  – I admit I didn’t realize that detail originally, only that it was Meredith Duran’s latest book and I was happy to discover it on the library shelf!  I was also glad to discover that she has handled the situation much better than Julia Quinn. The characters have much more depth and the plot is more involved and intriguing than Quinn’s.  The book is #5 in the Rules for the Reckless series; however, it can be read on its own, since there’s not really any ties […]

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10/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:84 |

A historical romance with lies, angst, an opportunistic heroine and a hero with amnesia

A Lady's Code of Misconduct by Meredith Duran

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Jane Mason is an heiress, but her money is being slowly embezzled by her unscrupulous relatives to further her uncle’s unscrupulous political career and she’s being kept far away in the country, to make sure she can’t meet anyone who might marry her. Her aunt and uncle plan to marry her off to her cousin, and eventually, Jane reluctantly agrees on the condition that she get a season in London first. She hopes to meet another suitable man she can convince to elope with her, offering him a share of her father’s vast fortune as long as she is free […]

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5/18/2017 's CBR9 Review No:48 |


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