Books by Nancy Butler
I generally think of a comfort read as something I’ve already read, but because I try to choose my TBR Challenge reads from books I haven’t read, I decided to go for one by an author whose work I’ve enjoyed and want to read more of. Nancy Butler’s The Rake’s Retreat got my 2021 TBR C ...
I read the wonderful Prospero’s Daughter by Nancy Butler for a reading challenge prompt a few years back, and at the time, lamented that none of the author’s books were available digitally. So I was delighted last year to discover that the situation is gradually being remedied; a handful of h ...
Prospero’s Daughter is a beautifully written and tender love story with an underlying message about the need for acceptance and unconditional love which is both powerful and sensitively delivered.
Morgan Pearce has recently sold his commission and returned to England to work with his ailing un ...
The Kindness of a Rogue is a gothic-style traditional Regency with an unconventional hero. It sounds good, doesn’t it? And yet, I found it extremely difficult to get through. Sara Cobb is an impoverished young woman of good birth and education. She is on her way to a remote part ...
The Barkin Emeralds is presumably Nancy Butler's last Signet Regency, as she's moving on to larger single title romances. But though this may say Regency on the spine, it really doesn't read like one. This is no comedy of manners or ton drama. It takes place on a small island in the Hebrides, and th ...
Castaway Hearts is a Super Regency romance. While it's not as long or complex as a Regency-era historical romance, it's not like a traditional Regency either. The characters are larger than life, there's more sensuality than can be found in a trad, and the action/adventure plot is more prominent. Na ...
After having read several series romances, none of which were very good, I swiched genres and picked up some traditional Regencies. I got lucky and hit a trifecta: Barbara Metzger's The Diamond Key, Donna Simpson's Rachel's Change of Heart, and this one, Prospero's Daughter. Wonderful books, all thr ...
The Discarded Duke was a decent story with an interesting setting and sense of place. Butler got caught up in the most common traditional Regency trap, though. She tried to do too much in her book, and the result is several stories that don't quite feel convincing.
Ursula, Lady Roarke is a widow ...
The characters in Reclaiming Lord Rockleigh made this one of the most enjoyable Regency Romances I have read this year. Lord Rockleigh Conniston and Mercy Tavistock are not new character types - she's a bluestocking and he is a rake - but they transcend their one-word descriptions and become very al ...
I've heard many good things about Nancy Butler's Regency Romances, so I gave The Prodigal Hero a try. I have to say that, despite some minor problems, I thoroughly enjoyed this story of "the cripple and the malcontent" as our hero describes himself and his heroine. Alexandra Presc ...