The Short and Fascinating Tale of Angelina Whitcombe definitely falls into the ‘hidden treasure’ category. This novella by Sabrina Darby is a wonderful take on the Beauty and the Beast story. The basic set-up is a tad unusual. John Martin has come home haunted by the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars. He’s become something of…
Narrated by Anais Inara Chase and Joel Froomkin To Swoon and to Spar is book four in Martha Water’s Regency Vows series of lively, character-driven historical romances, but it’s the first one I’ve listened to. I read and enjoyed books two and three, so thought I’d give this one a go in audio, and while…
There’s nothing particularly bad about Janna MacGregor’s How to Best a Marquess – except for the fact that it isn’t particularly good. Blythe – Beth – Howell, who went from being an eligible heiress to the wife (or at least one-third of one) of a trigamist who “drowned in a mud puddle”, wants to hit…
Narrated by Martyn Swain The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is the first in KJ Charles’ The Doomsday Books duology, which is set in and around Romney Marsh in Kent, a rather desolate part of the country that, owing to its isolation and proximity to the sea was something of a smuggler’s paradise between the…
An Improbable Season is the story of three different debutantes and how they make good – or don’t – during their very first season. Unfortunately, some terminology and title bobbles don’t allow this one to glimmer like a diamond of the first water, but teens will likely find it to be an amusing diversion. Sisters…
Ahh, Arabella. I won’t be the first to tell you about Heyer’s Arabella Tallant, she of the amazing name and strong will, a simple gently-bred country vicar’s daughter who manages to conquer the ton through some tall tales, personality, and charm. But I will add my voice to the chorus of people who thoroughly enjoy…
Time for Throwback Thursday! This is a true throwback to an earlier age of Romance novels and unfortunately is not available through Audible US, but you can still get an audio CD of it from Amazon and some other retailers as well as eBay. The review was originally published on September 14, 2014, and Carrie…
The long wait is over, and Bixby has met his match. India Holton’s Dangerous Damsels series rolls on with The Secret Service of Tea and Treason, which features an unusual sort of secret agent duel which may just result in love. It’s funny, it continues the series’ strong world building, and it has cracking chemistry…
A.J. Demas’ Sword Dance is the first book in a trilogy set in an imaginary/alternate ancient world that reads rather like Ancient Greece, so I thought it would be a good fit for this month’s “unusual historical” prompt. There’s mystery and a slow-burn romance, lots of wry humour and a superbly realised setting to enjoy,…
Anna Harrington’s Lord of the Armory series continues with A Problem Princess, featuring a princess forced to marry and an intelligence agent who worries he’s way out of her league. Can their cross-class relationship last? It can when it’s this instalusty! A newly-made Viscount, General Clayton Elliott has been tracking Scepter, an anarchist group, for…
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