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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: Secrets of Surrender by Madeline Hunter

by Marcia 03.20.2011

By: Marcia, guest reviewer It is always a treat to read one of Madeline Hunter’s books. They are very well written with compelling plots and historical subplots as well as wonderful characters. Secrets of Surrender is the third book in the Rothwell Series about a family that is declining socially. Roselyn Longworth has come down [...]

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Review: Pemberley Manor by Kathryn Nelson

by Keira 03.16.2011

If you’re looking for an Austen sequel that combines the characters’ original flaws of pride and prejudice I would highly recommend reading Pemberley Manor. Nelson spins a web of finely strung perceptions and choices. Darcy is one for angry words in the heat of the moment, swift regret, and fleet-footed in his escape to nurse [...]

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You’re so Vain, You Think this Romance is About You, Don’t You?

by Keira 03.14.2011

Carly Simon was onto something when she claimed, “you’re so vain.” What is romance, after all, but being (seemingly) attended to as you secretly think you deserve? ~Michael Sims reported by Bittergrace That was one of the most interesting things I heard about romance in a long while. It made me think. Are our emotions [...]

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Review: Beauty and the Beast by Hannah Howell

by Keira 02.08.2011

Beauty and the Beast by Hannah Howell is not a spectacular read. It is however a pretty solid read. I found several segments to be unnecessary and jumpy and predictable in others. This Highlander romance contains all the elements of the sub-genre including bride stealing, thwarted love, revenge plotting, and battle. Thayer Saiturn is known [...]

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Book Review: It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas

by Keira 11.25.2010

I had some unfamiliar and ear-wax color substances to avoid while reading this book; those are potential problems with any secondhand novel, though I must say I’ve never encountered anything quite like this. lol. Anyway despite the somewhat repulsive quality of my copy of It Happened One Autumn, I enjoyed the story. This Lisa Kleypas [...]

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Review: Cinderella and the Sheikh by Natasha Oakley

by Keira 10.11.2010

My only complaint is that this novel isn’t longer! I feel like this was a good start and now the author should flush it out with more details, more scenes, more, more, more. The ending was much too rushed to wrap everything up to my satisfaction. I felt like I read half a book only [...]

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Review: Impulse and Initiative by Abigail Reynolds

by Keira 08.10.2009

I love the title of this book. It rolls off the tongue because of the alliteration and reminds me of Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen. This Austen variation however is not about the lovely Misses Dashwoods, it is about Mr. Darcy and Miss Bennet from Pride and Prejudice. As is the tradition of Reynold’s [...]