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excellent middle novel in an excellent series

The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles

May 29, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Yep I just RAN to find this one after reading the prior book, and boy am I glad that I did. Realizing maybe I didn’t read these as quickly because I really dislike the way that Kim is pictured on the covers–long sideburns and black lipstick, it looks like to me??? Wait is that Maisie and Phoebe in the background!!!! After the first novel, Will finds himself once against at odds with trying to figure out that weirdo Kim. They’ve hooked up a couple of […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Romance Tagged With: K.J. Charles, LGBTQ, The Will Darling Adventures

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:28 · Genres: Mystery, Romance · Tags: K.J. Charles, LGBTQ, The Will Darling Adventures ·
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run, do not walk, and read these

Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles

May 29, 2022 by wicherwill 4 Comments

Narfna has stolen my first line for this review, which is: I love everything about this. Seeing as how I’m 90% certain I put this on hold because of her recommendation, I suppose it’s only fair. So, yes. This was everything. I had this outstanding on my Kindle for ages, constantly pushing it off because I didn’t think I was in the mood for whatever it was. I think I had this vibe of like, cozy mystery x aristocrats, and considering that cozy mystery is […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Romance Tagged With: K.J. Charles, LGBTQ, The Will Darling Adventures

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Mystery, Romance · Tags: K.J. Charles, LGBTQ, The Will Darling Adventures ·
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Two KJ Charles books I loved

Subtle Blood by KJ Charles

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles

December 30, 2021 by Emmalita 1 Comment

When KJ Charles envisioned the Will Darling Adventures, she thought she was going to release them bing-bang-boom in quick succession, but then the pandemic happened, and Will and Kim stopped cooperating. While Will and Kim refused to get to their happily ever after, Robin Loxleigh and Sir John Hartlebury insisted on theirs. I loved The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting so much. I devoured the historical romances of the 1990s and 2000. In those books, Robin Loxleigh and his sister Marianne would have been the […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: KJ Charles, Subtle Blood, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, The Will Darling Adventures

Emmalita's CBR13 Review No:120 · Genres: Romance · Tags: KJ Charles, Subtle Blood, The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, The Will Darling Adventures ·
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Double Cannonballing with a good series-ender.

Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3) by K.J. Charles

July 10, 2021 by narfna 11 Comments

**30 Books in 30 Days** Book 23/30 To be honest, I think if (when) I read all three books in this series back to back in the future, I will bump up both books two and three from four to five stars. It has been top notch in all areas: romance, class examinations, mysteries, historical fiction set in the 1920s, books about friendship, books about secret agents and spies, suspense novels. Seriously, just in all the things this series sets out to do, it succeeds […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Romance, Suspense Tagged With: 1920s, crime, espionage, historical fiction, historical romance, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, m/m, mystery, narfna, Romance, Subtle Blood, The Will Darling Adventures

narfna's CBR13 Review No:104 · Genres: Mystery, Romance, Suspense · Tags: 1920s, crime, espionage, historical fiction, historical romance, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, m/m, mystery, narfna, Romance, Subtle Blood, The Will Darling Adventures ·
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Thank God they were British. He took a deep breath. “Cup of tea?”

Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles

The Sugared Game by KJ Charles

November 3, 2020 by Emmalita 4 Comments

When KJ Charles initially announced the three book Will Darling Adventures series, it looked like it would all be released in 2020 and so I thought I would read all three and then review them together. However, 2020 is awful and apparently it’s hard to write when the world is on fire and your government is trying to kill you (KJ Charles is British). I have given in and decided to review the first two books without waiting for the third. Will Darling has returned […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: 1920s, KJ Charles, M/M historical romance, Slippery Creatures, the sugared game, The Will Darling Adventures

Emmalita's CBR12 Review No:88 · Genres: Romance · Tags: 1920s, KJ Charles, M/M historical romance, Slippery Creatures, the sugared game, The Will Darling Adventures ·
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That rare unicorn, a good middle book.

The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2) by K.J. Charles

October 15, 2020 by narfna 2 Comments

This book wasn’t as purely enjoyable for me as the first one, but it was really an excellent middle book that does what all middle books should do: It furthers the character arcs of the characters we care about so that they are not stagnant and wallowing, it pushes the main story arcs along further and things actually happen, and it provides its own enclosed story arc so that you are left satisfied by the presence of a beginning, middle, and ending within the book […]

Filed Under: Romance, Suspense Tagged With: 1920s, historical fiction, historical romance, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, the bright young things, the sugared game, The Will Darling Adventures

narfna's CBR12 Review No:146 · Genres: Romance, Suspense · Tags: 1920s, historical fiction, historical romance, K.J. Charles, LGBTQIA, m/m, narfna, the bright young things, the sugared game, The Will Darling Adventures ·
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