The Silk Merchant’s Convenient Wife is both a step in the right direction and a step down from the consistently creative Elisabeth Hobbes. This Harlequin Historical is rather more traditional than what I expect from her in light of the dozens of books she’s released which rebel joyfully against romancelandia’s trope constrictions. On the other…
Marguerite Kaye is one of my favourite authors and is someone I know can be relied upon to create interesting characters and situations that are firmly grounded in their historical settings, while also crafting a compelling and emotional romance between her hero and heroine. Readers – like me – who are always on the look-out…
The Earl with the Secret Past by Janice Preston is a pretty standard second chance romance but it also features an element of a mystery and I enjoyed that part quite a bit. Kitty, an earl’s daughter, begs architect apprentice Adam Monroe to run away with her and get her away from her father, but he refuses….
Julia Justiss’ Cinderella Spinsters series comes to a close with The Enticing of Miss Standish, which takes place against the backdrop of the cotton mills and the societal changes being wrought by the industrial revolution. It’s a well-researched story packed with information about the manufacturing industries operating in the middle of the nineteenth century, and…
How to Start a Scandal is the second book in Madeline Martin’s The London School for Ladies series. I have not read the previous one, but I’ll definitely be checking it out after reading this one. Seth Sinclair, Earl of Dalton, returns from war a broken man suffering from PTSD. He has recently inherited a title and…
The Scoundrel’s Bartered Bride, while still better than many of the historical romances released in the past few years, struggles somewhat with plot and character development and so earns only a mild recommendation from me. Ten years earlier Lady Lydia Barton fell hard for a stable boy on her estate. She and Owen Wolfe dreamt…
Laura Martin’s latest historical romance promised a simple friends-to-lovers tale between a duke and his best friend, a young woman who has loved him for years but who has decided it’s time to stop waiting for him to fall for her and move on. The author delivers on the premise; Her Best Friend the Duke…
I’ve never read Louise Allen before and was excited to jump into her latest novel, The Earl’s Marriage Bargain, whose blurb mentions a daring rescue. I was therefore looking forward to a more adventurous tale than I found myself reading, and unfortunately, came away disappointed. After being disgraced, Jane Newnham is traveling to her cousin’s…
Elizabeth Beacon’s Yelverton Marriages series continues charmingly with a new volume a peer and the commoner with whom he finds romance in Unsuitable Bride for a Viscount. Alaric Defford, Viscount Stratford, is in search of his runaway niece, Juno, who fled her home after her mother tried to sell her hand in marriage to an…
Harlequin Historical has a fairly good track record and has a number of my favourite authors on its roster, so I picked up new-to-me author Eliza Redgold’s The Master’s New Governess in hopeful anticipation of another enjoyable, romantic read. But I was sadly disappointed. What I found instead was a dully plodding story, bland, barely…
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