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> Tag: Tessa Dare

Realism? I barely know them

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare

June 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Apparently Evin the Magnificent was going to recommend this book to me as well because she was certain I would like it and what do you know, she was right! Here we have another entry in the series better paraphrased as “Utterly Implausible Meet-Cutes.” One cannot really believe that any of the situations in these novels would actually happen. Does that really matter? …not really? The reason why this novel is my favorite is because it’s the least believable of the lot (winning by a […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:77 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare ·
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I think I might end up reading Dare’s entire back catalogue at this point

Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare

June 5, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

So after reading Alexis Hall’s latest work I was back in a historical romance kick and thought I’d pick up some of the intervening novels in the series of Dare’s that I had perused–Spindle Cove, Castles Ever After, and Girl Meets Duke. Those might actually be her only series, I don’t actually know! I am sorry to note that while this book has many of the tropes that I really adore–childhood friends/known each other for a while, have liked each other for a while as […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:69 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Tessa Dare ·
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whoever said you can’t go home (to spindle cove) might be right

A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare

June 3, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

I think I read this because I was despairing of coming to the end of the books that are universally acclaimed in Dare’s oeuvre, and because I missed the ladies of Spindle Cove (and, to be honest, the idea of Spindle Cove in general. There is something hilarious about a town in which copies of a hated etiquette manual are used for all manner of papier mache crafts, building projects, and bulk volume needs). However, this book is a solid three star for me, without […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:43 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Spindle Cove, Tessa Dare ·
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bit of a power disparity at play here, ymmv

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

June 3, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

In comparison to the last Girl Meets Duke (gag on that name) book, The Wallflower Wager (chronologically after this one, though), this book has a number more logistical loops one must jump over in order to get invested in the characters, along with a variant of a trope that I do not enjoy. And that is why this one gets three stars whereas that one got four. So to get it away with in the beginning: – the number of steps between Emma, vicar’s daughter turned seamstress, […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:42 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare ·
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your tolerance for quirk will be tested (but rewarded!)

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

June 3, 2022 by wicherwill 1 Comment

Here we have a different series by Dare, as I was basically trying to skip around and find all of her best reviewed works. In these, as the name suggests, a female lead (seriously, do we need to call adult women girls) meets someone who is a “duke” either literally or not. In this case, we have a male lead named Gabriel Duke. It’s somewhat refreshing from time to time to read a book that doesn’t involve so much of a social leap as to […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:41 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Girl Meets Duke, Tessa Dare ·
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another castle, another lord

When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare

June 3, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Clearly I am taken with this idea of inheriting a large foreboding house far away from society that is mine without a mortgage or property taxes (and, since we’re in fantasy territory, also comes with a healthy, symbiotic relationship with the people who work the land). As noted in the prior review for Romancing the Duke, the common thread is the aforementioned inheritance of a castle, sort of unbidden, and the appearance of an Aristocrat with a Painful Secret who wants said castle…by any means necessary. […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Castles Ever After, Tessa Dare

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:40 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Castles Ever After, Tessa Dare ·
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