by Olive | Feb 26, 2024 | Book Reviews
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon by Kimberly Lemming (2021) Paranormal Fantasy Romance. Book 1 of the Mead Mishaps series. This book was the funniest thing I’ve read so far this year and it was an absolute delight. Cinnamon is a spice farmer leading a simple...
by Olive | Feb 22, 2024 | Book Reviews
Beauty and the Spy by Julie Anne Long (2008) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Holt Sisters Trilogy. Susannah’s life is upended when her father dies and leaves her penniless and living with an aunt in the country. Meanwhile, Kit is a bored spy...
by Olive | Feb 21, 2024 | Book Reviews
The Duke’s Unexpected Love by Alexa Aston (2024) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Strongs of Shadowcrest series. We start with a tragic prologue for James, who is a duke’s heir that gets abducted by sailors and forced onto a ship with...
by Olive | Feb 20, 2024 | Book Reviews
Give the Devil His Duke by Anna Bradley (2023) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Drop Dead Dukes series. After a huge scandal that killed her father and cast out her mother many years ago, Lady Francesca is back in London for the Season, looking...
by Olive | Feb 19, 2024 | Book Reviews
Some Dukes Have All the Luck by Christina Britton (2022) Historical romance in Regency-ish era England; Book 1 of the Synneful Spinsters series. Odd-girl Bronwyn aspires to be a published entomologist, much to the dismay of her social-climbing parents. They push her...