I started this month’s TBR Challenge a tad overly confident. After all, how hard can it be to find a hero or heroine with lots of charisma? Surprisingly tough, as it turned out. I tried a Regency trad that advertised a charismatic hero, but I only made it a couple chapters in before I bailed. …
I was pleased when I learned that Fearne Hill would be returning to Rossingley – this time for a series of historical romances set in the early nineteenth century. To Tempt a Troubled Earl is the first of a four book set, and tells the story of how Henry Orlando Fitzwilliam Albert Duchamps-Avery, eleventh Earl…
Spies, lies & allies are what Midnight on the Scottish Shore, a rollicking ride into German espionage and British Counter Intelligence, is all about. Cilla van der Zee had not expected her mission to be so hard. As the sister of a Dutch Nazi, it should have been easy to gather information on the group…
Resting on the fine fault line between old skool and new skool, between drama and comedy, is The Trouble with Anna, a readable mixed bag with a lovable heroine and a hero who loves her but could do with some better listening skills. Overall, it’s a fun read. Lady Anna Reston does not care for…
Have you ever had a whole lot of fun reading a book while also being completely mentally exhausted by it? While the Duke Was Sleeping is fast-paced, fun, and spirited, but it’s also such a dizzying merry-go-round you’ll want to sit down and take a breath after a few chapters. Still, it’s a great time….
February’s prompt – “Previously in Romance” – had me looking through the older books in my library and brought me to Patricia Veryan, who published over thirty Georgian and Regency set romances between 1978 and 2002. I’ve reviewed a few of her books for previous TBR Challenge prompts; the last time was in 2020 (Feather…
Narrated by Cornell Collins The Demons of Wychwood is a fairly short Victorian historical romance, coming in at a little under six hours in audio. Its protagonist is Felix Lazarus, a former soldier who now works as a clerk for the General Post Office and who has a side hustle as a kind of general…
Alexandra Vashti’s works are light, breezy and fun to soak up. This one, Earl Crush, is a step up from Ne’re Duke Well and is a fine and enjoyable time. Wallflower and heiress Lydia Hope-Wallace is prepared to offer up the ultimate sacrifice to her longtime pen pal in anonymous political rabble rousing, Arthur Baird,…
I’ve been deeply enjoying Adriana Herrera’s Las Leonas series of books, and this one, the last, wraps things up with a fiery doctor and a brand-new member of the aristocracy. Doctora Aurora Montalban Wright has rebelled against the social caste by becoming a physician. Going unrecognized for her medical talents, she runs an above-board general…
I enjoyed the first book in this series, Never Blow a Kiss. It was wallpapery, sure, but very entertaining, with leads who sizzled and dialogue that made me laugh. This one? Still wallpapery, but missing the zing of book one. It’s not terrible, however, and, if you’re looking for fun and forgettable, this does the…
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