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Review: Three Nights with a Scoundrel by Tessa Dare

by Keira 08.10.2011

Three Nights with a Scoundrel is the final installment in the Stud Club trilogy by Tessa Dare. Of the three men making up this exclusive and revolutionary club, I was uncertain if Julian Bellamy had what it took to be a hero because his character was fairly off-putting in the first two books. He had [...]

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Review: Under Her Skin by Susan Mallery

by Keira 07.29.2011

I had some issues with Cruz Rodriguez, the hero of the story. First, he’s paying his nasty evil father blackmail money like a little kid with a secret when he’s supposed to be extremely powerful and self-confident now. Second, and more importantly he eschews all contact with his daughter, Kendra. He clearly doesn’t want to [...]

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Review: One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare

by Keira 07.21.2011

Prepare yourself to be dazzled. One Dance with a Duke is one of those exceptional romances that immediately found its way to my top favorites (ten of which I sent to Jane at Dear Author… if I had finished this book before sending off the list you would most assuredly have found it with the [...]

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Review: The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 07.06.2011

This novel is definitely one of my overall favorites of Heyer’s so far. It’s easy to read and follow despite the language and research. I loved all the side characters and Rule most of all. The leads were very well matched for each other. Lizzie Winwood, the Beauty, is engaged to the Earl of Rule, [...]

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Review: Faro’s Daughter by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 06.22.2011

Faro’s Daughter by Geogette Heyer is an excellent read, but fairly short. The whole story gets told in 285 pages. This is one of the first novels of hers that I’ve read that has a lot of lead interaction. In fact they’re nearly at each others throats in every other scene. It makes for a [...]

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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: A Rake’s Guide to Seduction by Caroline Linden

by Marcia 04.27.2011

by Marcia, guest reviewer Anthony Hamilton had always been scandalous. Even his parentage was questionable though his mother’s husband accepted him as his son. Anthony had been thrown out of school several times for gambling although he did finish Oxford in record time. His debts are sometimes rumored to be very high and at other [...]

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Review: Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie

by Keira 04.01.2011

The cover on this book describes Bet Me to be “wickedly witty, deliciously sexy.” More than that, Jennifer Crusie’s story is tender and full of Elvis (both varieties.) I enjoy this book immensely every time I read it. I think it’s the shoes. Minerva Dobbs will never be described as thin, but her mother won’t [...]