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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 |

I’m a trust fund baby, you can trust me

Pennyroyal Green series by Julie Anne Long

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Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Pennyroyal where we lay our scene.  From ancient grudge break to new matrimony.  When British mud makes British hands unclean. From forth the fruitful loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers fuck up their life.  Whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their pining cause everyone to take a wife.  The fearful passage of their forbidden love and the continuance of their parents’ rage, which, but their children’s matrimony, naught could remove, is now the lengthy traffic of this post – the which, if you with patient eyes attend, what […]

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2/12/2016 's CBR8 Review No:7 |

Even more disappointing

The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long

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The Legend of Lyon Redmond (2015) and the love story of Lyon Redmond and Olivia Eversea has been a long time coming. Julie Anne Long has written numerous books about the small town of Pennyroyal Green and the many epic romances sprouting from the area. Every young man or woman of marriageable age and suitable demeanor has been swept up in Cupid’s influence, including every Redmond and Eversea sibling. A common thread throughout all of Long’s previous Pennyroyal Green books is the whispered mystery of the failed romance between Olivia and Lyon–a Romeo and Juliet story of a love despite two […]

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2/12/2016 's CBR8 Review No:10 |

It all hinges on kindness

It Started With a Scandal by Julie Anne Long

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Many months ago, Malin and Mrs. Julien got me reading Julie Anne Long’s Pennyroyal Green series. I read and reviewed What I Did For a Duke and then I went back and read the series from the beginning. I marathon read all but the penultimate book in the series. I always fully intend to review each book I read, but when I marathon a series like this the books blur together and I no longer have specific thoughts about specific books. Sometimes I’ll try to review a chunk of the series, which works better for some series than for others. […]

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9/30/2015 's CBR7 Review No:50 |

A woman’s got to have a code – double Cannonball

The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long

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Before I begin this review, I have to say that in a genre where where so many books have absolutely atrocious covers, where readers pick up and love the books despite the cover art, this book has one of my favourite covers in years. It fills me with joy and perfectly encapsulates the contents of the book. I wish more romances had covers this great. While many of Julie Anne Long’s Pennyroyal Green books can be read out of order or completely independently of each other, this book is the culmination of the 11-book series, and as such, will probably […]

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9/29/2015 's CBR7 Review No:104 |

The housekeeper and the prince

It Started with a Scandal by Julie Anne Long

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3.5 stars Miss Elise Fountain used to be a teacher at the school for wayward girls in Pennyroyal Green, but was fired after she spoke inappropriately to one of the patrons. Now she’s managed to get a recommendation from the powerful Redmond family and is desperate to secure a position as housekeeper to the formidable Lord Philippe Lavay, an exiled Bourbon prince recovering from a near-fatal robbery in the village. He gives her a two week trial, expecting she will be gone before one has passed. Elise, who was estranged from her parents when she foolishly got pregnant, hides her […]

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4/18/2015 's CBR7 Review No:43 |

Another Historical Romance, but with an Adjacent Competitor [Cue Duelling Banjos]

Between the Devil and Ian Eversea by Julie Anne Long

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Malin beat me to it… Tansy Danforth is isolated, orphaned, and looking to a family friend to help her both settle in a new country and, this is a historical romance after all, marry to gain access to her inheritance. Fortunately for Julie Anne Long fans, the friend is Alex Moncrieffe, Duke of Falconbridge who, along with Genevieve his Duchess, is from Long’s classic romance pairing in What I Did for a Duke. Tansy is staying at the Eversea estate in Pennyroyal Green while she gets her footing. Her hero is Ian, the lone unmarried Eversea son and someone who […]

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3/31/2014 's CBR6 Review No:27 |

A Regency romance heavy on the flirting

Between the Devil and Ian Eversea by Julie Anne Long

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Miss Titania “Tansy” Danforth is all alone in the world. Her beloved brother was a soldier who died in the war of 1812, and her parents died in a carriage accident. Now she’s had to leave the home she knew in New York to travel back to England, where she hasn’t lived since she was a little girl. Her father’s will states that she’ll not have her fortune released until she marries a man approved by her new guardian, her father’s cousin, the fearsome Duke of Falconbridge. Preferably someone rich in his own right and suitably titled. Tansy knows she’s […]

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3/31/2014 's CBR6 Review No:28 |


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