by Olive | Aug 1, 2023 | Book Reviews
A Good Debutante’s Guide to Ruin by Sophie Jordan (2014) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Debutante Files series. Stepbrother romance, but make it historical. Rosalie has overstayed her welcome at the girls’ school her mother sent her to,...
by Olive | Jul 31, 2023 | Book Reviews
Bed Me, Duke by Felicity Niven (2023) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Bed Me Books series. The action starts in chapter 1 with our countess (in her own right) Helen asking Jack for lessons in seduction so that she can somehow convince the new...
by Olive | Jul 27, 2023 | Book Reviews
Sins of a Wicked Duke by Sophie Jordan (2009) Historical romance. Regency or Victorian-era England. Book 1 of the Penwich School for Virtuous Girls series. We start with a tragic prologue of three girls who become friends at a terrible girls’ school where meals are...
by Olive | Jul 25, 2023 | Book Reviews
Knockout by Sarah MacLean (2023) Historical romance. Victorian-era England. Book 3 of the Hell’s Belles series. Lady Imogen is the chemical explosives expert of the Belles and is often spotted at the scene of the crime collecting her own evidence, much to the dismay...
by Olive | Jul 20, 2023 | Book Reviews
The Work of Art by Mimi Matthews (2019) Historical romance. Regency-era England. Book 1 of the Somerset Stories series. We’ve got a strikingly beautiful and kind young lady, Phyllida, living with her uncle and cousins after her grandfather has passed away and now...
by Olive | Jul 18, 2023 | Book Reviews
An Invitation to Seduction by Lorraine Heath (2004) Historical romance. Victorian-era England. Book 4 of the Daughters of Fortune series. Kitty spends almost the whole book feeling shameful of her lustful desires for the man she spied swimming in the sea and wants to...