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This was very smouldery but I am being picky

When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons #6) by Julia Quinn

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So, this one was kind of weird! 3.5 stars, I’ll say, from the exact average of the first (great) half and the second (weird) half. Spoilers. But first, Goodreads summary: “In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to […]

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9/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:19 |

Good Old Reliable Mary Balogh

Someone to Honor by Mary Balogh

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A forgotten pre-order delivery to my Kindle! Huzzah! A Regency romance with a custody battle, Someone to Honor is the sixth book in Mary Balogh’s current Westcott series. I’ve read all of the novels, but only reviewed a couple. She’s a writer whose work I don’t bounce in anticipation of, but she is a confident writer who can be turned to for effective and sometimes fantastic romance (Only Enchanting). Her characters are generally sensible people attempting to manage their lives in practical, pragmatic ways then find themselves falling madly in love. It throws them for a loop, but they remain true […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

My main issue with this book is that I just wanted more of it!

A Duke in Disguise (Regency Imposters, #2) by Cat Sebastian

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I’m having trouble with this one! On the one hand, I liked it. On the other, I thought it needed just a little something else. I never really cared the way I should have, the way I’ve cared about her other characters in past books. Verity Plum is a publisher and bookseller; John Ashby is an engraver. They have known one another for ages, and always a low-simmering attraction they’ve both ignored has been present. Both for different reasons have been scared to change their dynamic. But then a series of events occur that convince both of them to give […]

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6/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:63 |

A Long Awaited Return to Historical Romance

Palace of Rogues: Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long

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Huzzah, Julie Anne Long has returned to Regency historical romances. Granted, the cover is displeasing, but the contents are not. Delilah, Lady Derring is not only recently widowed, she’s also discovered she is virtually penniless, and had the delightful experience of meeting her husband’s mistress, Mrs. Angelique Breedlove, immediately on the heels of the first two shocks. Showing disregard for the notion that they are competitors,  and demonstrating intestinal fortitude and chutzpah, Delilah and Angelique take the jewels they have from the erstwhile Earl Derring and invest them all in the only thing left to them – a derelict townhouse […]

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6/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

The first of two amazing books I read to end the year. (I want to put them both on my end of year best!)

Band Sinister by K.J. Charles

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“This, then, was a hellfire club: a debating society for alarming ideas.” What a delightful way to end the year. I always like K.J. Charles’s books, but this one just pushed every single one of my buttons. It’s an homage to Georgette Heyer, and a romance, but I’ve not read anything quite like it before. Guy Frisby and his sister Amanda are secluded from society in their quiet country home. An old scandal involving their mother and their neighbor besmirched their names and ruined Amanda’s prospects, and Guy now prefers to shrink quietly into the shadows of invisibility and propriety, […]

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12/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:174 |

A Sweet, Clean Romance

The Weaver Takes a Wife by Sheri Cobb South

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I bought this book for three reasons – (1) the utterly charming cover, (2) my maiden name is Weaver and it was too much to resist, and (3) I met my husband because I spotted him across the room and said “Who is that?  I need to meet him.”, so I’m always a sucker for that story line. This was a very charming, ‘clean’ Regency romance.  It did not dive as deeply into the characters as I would have liked, but it was overall an enjoyable, light read. Ethan Brundy (the titular weaver) is a workhouse orphan who worked his way […]

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7/26/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

She Was Mostly Immensely Relieved to Think That Virtually Everything That Anybody Had Ever Told Her Was Wrong

Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh

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All glory to Douglas Adams for the review title. This is an almost 4 star book. Mary Balogh writes reliable romance about sensible and somewhat damaged people finding each other. The first in her new Westcott series, Someone to Love, wasn’t as strong as it could be, but Someone to Hold featured excellent and interesting character development. I don’t pre-order Balogh’s books or run to the library to get a look at a new release, but I am rarely let down by her writing. It sounds like I’m damning with faint praise, but I don’t mean to. When I buy a […]

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3/16/2018 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

Slightly Slightly

Slightly Married, Slightly Dangerous (Bedwyn Saga #1,7) by Mary Balogh

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Mary Balogh is a stalwart author in historical romance with whom my experience is very limited. Her Bedwyn Saga appears on NPR’s “Best Romances” list from several summers back, which I am still pretending to tackle in a very time-insensitive fashion. There are a total of six books in the series, and this review is for the first and last of them. If the rest of the books are like the first book, I will probably not read them, but if they’re more like the last one, I’d be more interested. The entire “saga,” in traditional romance series fashion, gives […]

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2/13/2018 's CBR10 Review No:10 |


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