Books by Kate Noble
This third book in Kate Noble’s Winner Takes All series is another beautifully written romance featuring likeable central characters, a very well-drawn secondary cast and dilemmas that feel realistic while also being problematic enough to provide the necessary degree of conflict. The Dare and th ...
I love older heroines and second-chance-at-love stories - and I adore Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson, to which this story's title alludes; and so I was delighted to be assigned Kate Noble's novella Miss Goodhue Lives for a Night. Although it did not quite live up to my expectation ...
I’m going to start this review by saying that while I enjoyed The Lie and the Lady, I can understand that certain aspects of it might not appeal to everybody. The heroine is, at first glance, a coldly calculating fortune hunter out to catch herself a rich husband, and she and the hero don’t inte ...
The Game and the Governess is a very strong start to Kate Noble’s new series, wherein she takes a seemingly trite plot and turns it into a compelling story which is by turns funny, charming and poignant.
The story opens upon Miss Phoebe Baker on her final day at the exclusive school where she h ...
Certain authors have a confidence of voice that comes out in their writing, and I count Kate Noble among that number. In The Game and the Governess, she takes on what could have been an overly contrived setup, delivering both a comedy of manners and a touching love story.
Readers meet Phoebe Bake ...
Although Let it Be Me is billed as the fifth in a series of books and features the Forrester family from If I Fall, I don’t think it’s necessary to have read that book or the others in the series in order to enjoy this one – and enjoy it, I did.
The heroine of this story is Bridget, the mid ...
B+
Thisclose. That’s how close this extraordinary book came to DIK status. Sarah Forrester is beautifully flawed and wonderfully real; there were times I wanted to pull her ears, and times I wanted to hug her and tell her I’d still be her friend. I’ve complained about cookie-cutter, annoyingly pe ...
I really like what I’m seeing from some of the new - or relatively new - authors on the scene. There’s a lot of originality out there, and some damn good writing too. Follow My Lead is a great example of this trend. It’s a well-written road romance that takes place primarily in Bavaria and Aus ...
The first fifty pages are not auspicious. Besides setting three different tones, the book introduces a heroine who bids fair promise to being spoiled, immature, and thoroughly anachronistic. But then the book takes a turn for the better. And oh, what a turn it takes.
Lady Jane Cummings ...
C+
Compromised is a light, Victorian-set love story. It marks the debut of author Kate Noble, and for a first book, it's not half bad. Maximillian, Viscount Fontaine, survives on his intellect. Estranged from his reclusive father and beholden to no one, Max uses his skill with languages to earn ju ...