One of the many reasons I like reading Regency romances, is how dating is portrayed. It’s courtly. Upon closer examination though, I find there isn’t that much difference between dating back then and dating today. It just sounds sexier. Here are three areas dating is the same, but where I still think Regency dating habits [...]
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by Susan Adriani, guest blogger and author of The Truth About Mr. Darcy If you think it’s difficult to find a man like Mr. Darcy in the twenty-first century, just imagine attempting it in the nineteenth, where propriety was demanded at all times—especially during courtship. In Regency England, a woman’s sole occupation was to attract [...]
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What I love most about this book is the research and language used to express the time period. Lathan’s diction is vastly superb – I had to look one or two words up. (Romance novels have all the credit when it comes to my 750 verbal SAT score from way back when.) The way she [...]
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by Grace Elliot, guest blogger and author of A Dead Man’s Debt One of the many reasons I love regency romances, is the subtly of courtship… subtle, yet sizzling! With a chaperone present our regency heroine has limited ways of seducing her dark lord….but sometimes less is more. In A Dead Man’s Debt, during a [...]
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by Susanna Carr, guest blogger and author of “Hot for the Holidays,” her novella, in Wicked Wonderland. You’re having a great day and you want to celebrate. You’re having a bad day and need to curl up on the couch and shut out the world. You’re bored and looking for some fun. Would you pick [...]
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No Ordinary Princess by Morsi was very bland. I don’t know why I kept reading it other than I hoped, sincerely hoped something would happen to put it on the same level as Simple Jess or Courting Miss Hattie. It didn’t happen. The hero was masquerading as another person (fake) in order to win over [...]
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by Zarabeth, guest reviewer The Nonesuch is a regency romance between a “top-of-the-tress Corinthian” and a noble-turn-governess. Already I’m upset. This was my first, and last, Georgette Heyer and I maintain that I simply cannot follow her style. I have intense difficulties understanding the language and keeping pace with the conversation. More than once I [...]
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