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Review: Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark by Donna Lea Simpson

by Keira 06.20.2011

I have a funny story with this book and by story I mean an epic fail. I was returning some books back to the library and somehow Lady Anne sneaked back with them. When I realized what I’d done it was as if I’d been amputated! So painful. Of course I returned the books on [...]

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Review: The Silver Squire by Marry Brendan

by Keira 06.17.2011

Marry a horrible abusive philandering man or risk absolute ruin by running away? Tough choice… not! Spinster Emma Worthington has waited this long for romance and there’s no way her family’s dire straights will force her into an unwanted marriage to a creep. She packs her bag and races to an old suitor in hopes [...]

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Review: His at Night by Sherry Thomas

by Keira 06.16.2011

Tired of spy lords in Regencies? If you said yes, make an exception for His at Night, because it’s not tired. It’s very much awake and zesty. Sherry Thomas has taken this subgenre of Regencies and gave it a fabulous new life… by making the Marquess a blithering idiot. Oh I see your incredulous expression, [...]

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Review: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

by Keira 05.28.2011

Lord of Scoundrels opens in the hero’s youth. We learn very quickly that life was not pleasant to Sebastian. His mother left him with his father while she ran off with another man (a scandal if I ever heard of one!) He was bullied, tortured, and ridiculed constantly at school. He was rejected because of [...]

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Review: Starlight and Promises by Cat Lindler

by Keira 05.01.2011

Starlight and Promises in short, is fantastic. It has a feel of the older romances with the exotic locations and seafaring travel, but is fresh and fun. I simply loved how the romance developed on the way to where the expedition would start. The romantic timeline is a lengthy one – their romance does not [...]

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Review: Lessons in French by Laura Kinsale

by Keira 04.23.2011

Lessons in French is a feel-good story. It’s cute, lighthearted, and full of whimsy. It was the right novel at the right time. I needed cute, lighthearted, and whimsy. I smiled a lot when reading it and rooted for both of the main characters. They’re imperfect, but that just makes them extremely likeable. The heroine [...]

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Review: Wife for Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

by Keira 03.29.2011

The title of this novel is what drew me to it in the first place but it was the book blurb that cinched it for me. I liked the idea of a one night stand that left a hero quaking in his cowboy boots over the heroine and a desperate urge to find her and [...]

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Review: Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 03.15.2011

Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer is one scrumptious romp of trouble after the next. It all begins when Miss Charity Steane was found wandering the hillside, luggage in one hand and very sore feet. She is picked up by Viscount Ashley Desford and whisked away in his curricle as blasé as anything you please. He [...]