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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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While he was sleeping.

January 29, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

Short and sweet review for a short and sweet book. Actually, the book was 375 pages which isn’t really short, but it FELT short because I zoomed right through it. I’m not taking back my phrasing. So this is a book about a lady who travels to Revolutionary America to search for her missing brother (a British soldier), and encounters his best friend instead, who is in a coma. When they won’t let her in to see him, she claims to be his wife, and then […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: historical romance, Julia Quinn, narfna, rokesbys, romance, the Girl with the Make-Believe Husband, the Rokesbys

narfna's CBR10 Review No:15 · Genres: Romance · Tags: historical romance, Julia Quinn, narfna, rokesbys, romance, the Girl with the Make-Believe Husband, the Rokesbys ·
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Lies, amnesia, missing persons and the revolutionary war

July 4, 2017 by Malin 5 Comments

3.5 stars Shortly after the death of her father, Miss Cecilia Harcourt gets a letter informing her that her brother, Thomas Harcourt has been injured during battle i the American colonies. Her odious cousin keeps coming around hinting strongly at how beneficial it would be for Cecilia to marry him, so instead she buries the family silver in the garden and sets off over the Atlantic to find her brother and nurse him back to health. Unfortunately, no one seems to be willing to speak […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: American Revolution, cbr9, Georgian, historical romance, Julia Quinn, Malin, the Girl with the Make-Believe Husband, the Rokesbys

Malin's CBR9 Review No:61 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Romance · Tags: American Revolution, cbr9, Georgian, historical romance, Julia Quinn, Malin, the Girl with the Make-Believe Husband, the Rokesbys ·
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