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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 |

Favorite book of this series. Loved it.

A Woman Entangled (Blackshear Family, #3) by Cecilia Grant

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Please ignore the overgrown beefsteak on the cover of this book. I cannot imagine a worse dude to put on the cover to represent this lovely story. Okay, well, that’s a lie. I can imagine worse. But still! It is not representative! That is a LARGE MAN WITH UNREALISTICALLY LARGE MUSCLES. The hero of this book is a normal man with a more lean physique and probably very pale, because he is English in the 1800s and where is the sun? And also he is a bookish barrister who regularly turns down social engagements to study and read, and is emphatically not […]

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1/10/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:5 |

The last hellion weds

A Lady Never Surrenders by Sabrina Jeffries

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This is the fifth and final book in the Hellions of Halstead Hall series, and it’s the story of Celia Sharpe who is the last member of her family to be wed.  As per her grandmother’s edict, Celia and her siblings were to be married in order to gain their inheritance and she is the last holdout.  Their parents had died rather mysteriously years earlier, and Celia had become a hoyden who preferred riding and hunting with her brothers than any more feminine pursuits.  However, evidence has been surfacing throughout the series that the deaths may have been murder and […]

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12/28/2017 's CBR9 Review No:103 |

Emotional whiplash

The Marrying Season by Candace Camp

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Genevieve Stafford, our heroine, is considered to be aloof, respectable and everything a lady of Regency should be.  She’s also worried that she will never marry, so she decides to pray at the shrine of St. Dwynwen to find love.  The legend of the saint was told to her previously (in one of the other books in this series, which I haven’t read) but she finally decided it couldn’t hurt.  And voila, her prayers are answered and she meets Lord Dursford as she is leaving the chapel. Fast forward a few months, and she is betrothed to Dursford even though […]

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12/8/2017 's CBR9 Review No:96 |

Was There A Kissing Book Writer Race to Use This Title?

Do You Want to Start a Scandal? by Tessa Dare

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Tessa Dare’s latest Regency romance series is The Duchess Deal and I would recommend its first book, Girl Meets Duke, over Do You Want to Start a Scandal. This crossover story between Dare’s Spindle Cove and Castles Ever After novels, features the youngest of the Highwood sisters and longtime troublemaker, Charlotte, who has both eldest sibling Diana’s desire for a loving home and intellectual Minerva‘s sense of adventure. Piers Brandon, Lord Granville is an agent of the crown performing reconnaissance at a two-week house party in the English countryside. Devoted to his duty to King and country, he is caught off guard when Charlotte Highwood presents herself to him with a […]

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9/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:28 |

A Good Novella from the Ever Reliable Mary Balogh

A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh

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“I don’t think anything inspired me except the necessity of coming up with a story so that I could fulfill my obligation to a contract I had agreed to! I had to dream up a story, and this one popped into my head.” Mary Balogh in the interview following A Matter of Class. Nonetheless, as an experienced, and clearly honest, professional writer, she delivered a sincerely charming  historical romance novella. Reggie and Annabelle are lifelong neighbours divided by a waterway as well as the barriers of class levels in so-called polite society. Their estates may be next to each other […]

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9/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:25 |

What Was Being a Duke, If Not Arching a Sardonic Eyebrow?

The Duchess Deal: Girl Meets Duke by Tessa Dare

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What was being a duke, if not arching a sardonic eyebrow? [fires confetti cannon, then starts pointing and yelling, “YES!” at Tessa Dare] Girl Meets Duke has all of Dare’s cleverness and less of her recent series’ tweeness. She’s back and I’m in! It’s not her best work, but it’s what I (and very possibly no one else as captious as I am) consider a return to form, and in some ways a step up. It’s like she unleashed her full wit and wordplay on this Regency romance. Ash is a brooding, forbidding Duke. Manly, muscular, and scarred by cannon […]

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9/5/2017 's CBR9 Review No:21 |


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