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The comfort of a familiar story told well

The Lady and the Highway Man by Sarah M Eden

February 8, 2021 by Nart Leave a Comment

If you’re in the mood for a very sweet, low angst, feminist historical romance, you can’t really go wrong with this book. Tiny Bookbot reviewed the second in the series a couple weeks ago and it sounded charming enough to try. Chronologically, of course. Plot: Prim headmistress of a school for middle class girls writes penny dreadful novels in secret to help supplement her income and keep her school afloat. A Now Rich But Born In the Slums fellow author of penny dreadfuls uses his […]

Filed Under: History, Romance Tagged With: Sarah M. Eden

Nart's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: History, Romance · Tags: Sarah M. Eden ·
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An amiably low-stakes romantic adventure in Victorian London

The Gentleman and the Thief (The Dread Penny Society Book #2) by Sarah M. Eden

January 26, 2021 by tiny_bookbot 2 Comments

I’m teaching a lot of fairly heavy texts this term, and texts that are outside my area of specialty, and so in this time of COVID especially, when I read for myself, I find myself reaching for books that are pretty low stakes. I haven’t got a lot of energy for being haunted by a book most days (exceptions carved out for poetry). And that’s how I wound up borrowing the ebook of Sarah M. Eden’s The Gentleman and the Thief from the local library. It […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Sarah M. Eden

tiny_bookbot's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Sarah M. Eden ·
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