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Shockingly, only one non-fiction title and three–THREE–romances! I can hardly believe it.
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Because I Killed Him
I spotted one of my mutuals on Goodreads reading this one and compared the main character dynamics to Jude and Cardan from The Cruel Prince. Definitely buying for myself.
The wrong ally is deadlier than an enemy.
In the Civilized World, everyone is rich, yet money doesn’t buy safety. It only buys a gold coffin. The real currency is having the right allies. Low-citizens survive by joining high-citizens’ exclusive inner circles, trading loyalty for protection from laws that govern speech, dress, and posture—and punish mistakes with public beheading.
Low-citizen Loredana Waldsten already knows the cost of breaking the rules. Once a rising fencing prodigy, she lost the right to carry weapons after killing a high-citizen in a brutal locker-room attack. The courts erased his death to preserve his family’s honor. Now she’s unarmed, legally defenseless, and enrolled at the elite Grandmaster University, where champagne spills into the gutters and reputations are built on death duels.
When Loredana’s father, a low-citizen politician, publicly challenges the high-citizens, she becomes a target. Some classmates demand her execution. Others hunt her for sport. And by law, she’s forbidden to fight back.
Her only chance of survival lies with Edmund Prew, a charming yet ruthless high-citizen student she’s been warned against. Edmund’s family has been locked in a bitter feud with Loredana’s for years, and he wants nothing to do with her until a lost bet forces him to protect her within his inner circle. What begins as a scandalous, strategic alliance turns perilous as they fall for each other.
Because the man Loredana killed wasn’t just a high-citizen. He was Edmund’s cousin.
Loving Edmund means living a lie.
Telling the truth means certain death.Add to Goodreads To-Read List →
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The Dressmaker’s Secret Earl
This one came from another one of my mutuals on Goodreads and I know many of you are always on the lookout for new historical romances. I believe the books in this series feature two romances happening concurrently.
A Marriage of Convenience? Not for Augusta—She’s Determined to Choose Her Own Fate.
Book 1 of an interconnected Regency romance series, where each love story stands alone—yet characters, secrets, and consequences echo from book to book.
The impoverished daughter of a baronet, Augusta knows what it means to be powerless. When her aunt arranges a marriage to a scoundrel, she refuses to become a pawn in a transaction. Instead, she flees to London, her dreams pinned on building a life as a modiste—designing gowns for society’s elite.
But freedom comes with unexpected risks. On her first day in the city, Augusta crosses paths with Lord Bridlington, a brooding earl whose clubfoot and scandalous reputation have made him an outcast. Yet beneath his gruff exterior is a man grappling with hidden pain and longing for acceptance.
Drawn into the orbit of Lord Bridlington’s captivating sister, Mariana—a woman whose secret ambition is to marry the one man society deems entirely unsuitable—Augusta is swept into a world of whispered intrigue, midnight masquerades, and suppressed passions. Disguises, daring schemes, and reckless escapades soon become the fabric of her new life.
Yet as her heart begins to race for a man she never meant to care for, Augusta’s past catches up with her, threatening to shatter the freedom she fought so hard to claim. And Lord Bridlington’s secrets may be more dangerous than she ever imagined.
Will Augusta find the courage to seize the life—and the love—she truly desires?
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Femina
If you like a feminist history deep dive, perhaps give this one a peek.
A groundbreaking reappraisal of medieval femininity, revealing why women have been written out of history and why it matters
The Middle Ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings; a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the “Dark” Ages were anything but.
Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women’s names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. As gatekeepers of the past ordered books to be burned, artworks to be destroyed, and new versions of myths, legends and historical documents to be produced, our view of history has been manipulated.
Only now, through a careful examination of the artifacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. Femina goes beyond the official records to uncover the true impact of women, such as:
- Jadwiga, the only female king in Europe
- Margery Kempe, who exploited her image and story to ensure her notoriety
- Loftus Princess, whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England
In Femina, Ramirez invites us to see the medieval world with fresh eyes and discover why these remarkable women were removed from our collective memories.
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Princeweaver
For all my Winter’s Orbit or A Taste of Gold and Iron fans out there!
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