Dukes and Earls

Review: Pretty Persuasion by Olivia Kingsley

by Carla F. 01.24.2012

Reviewed by Carla F. At the age of 10, Lady Georgiana Montford is introduced to her betrothed, Robert Balfour, who will one day be the Earl of Sheffield. Robert is already a young adult, but he treats Georgie with kindness. A friendship develops, and Georgie falls in love with Robert. She is then devastated to [...]

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Audio Review: First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet, Book 1) by Mary Balogh

by Keira 01.22.2012

Narrator: I am on an audio book kick. I loved this narrator. Anne Flosnik is great! She makes the book come alive. It’s like listening to a movie with all of her voices. I wanted to drive more around town just for the opportunity to get further in the book! Heroine: Vanessa Dew is the [...]

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Review: Ten Things I Love About You (Bevelstoke, Book 3) by Julia Quinn

by Keira 01.18.2012

Heroine: Annabel Winslow, eldest sister of 8 siblings, is soon to be engaged to an overweight, short-tempered nobleman as old as her grandmother. She must agree or risk her family’s future happiness. If she does, she loses her own. But she still has time before the Earl of Newbury asks, perhaps there is another way? [...]

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Review: Wife by Wednesday by Catherine Bybee

by Keira 01.08.2012

Hero: Blake Harrison needs a wife, yesterday, in order to complete the terms of the will of his late father. They never saw eye to eye and this is just one more thing he’s being manipulated to do, but Blake has a plan. He’s going to hire himself a bride because the last thing he [...]

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Review: The Secret Mistress (Dudley, Book 3) by Mary Balogh

by Keira 11.23.2011

I listened to a narrated audiobook version of this novel. Read by Anne Flosnik. Hero: Edward Ailsbury, the new Earl of Heyward, knows he must marry. As a spare, now heir, he knows the importance of preserving the family lineage. The candidate he has in mind is his family friend and favorite bluestocking, Eunice Goddard. [...]

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Review: Fortune’s Son by Emery Lee

by Susan S. 11.04.2011

Reviewed by Susan S. Summary: Hero, Philip Drake, is the proverbial black sheep of his family. And an embarrassing disappointment to his father, the Earl of Hastings. Philip is a rebellious and impulsive young man; who’s spent the last four years drinking, bedding tavern maids, and gambling. Drake’s life is an unmitigated disaster; a reckless [...]

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Review: Just Like Heaven (Smythe-Smith Quartet, Book 1) by Julia Quinn

by Keira 10.20.2011

Ah, those dreaded Smythe-Smiths! they lack any musical talent and yet they persist in destroying the hearing of the London ton with their dreaded annual musical quartets. Heroine: Lady Honoria Smythe-Smith plays the violin and she’s awful, but at least she knows it. This year she’s determined to marry and get a man to come [...]

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Review: A Dash of Scandal by Amelia Grey

by Susan S. 10.06.2011

(Reissue) Originally published in 2002 by Jove Books, The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., New York My Dear Readers, A mind changed against its will is of the same opinion still. Which is why Millicent Blair, heroine, refuses to believe Lord Dunraven’s rakish days are a thing of the past. Chandler [...]