Eloisa James is one of my favorite authors, and by favorite I mean I squeed so hard at her at RT that she may have taken out a restraining order. Redheadedgirl can attest to this. I may have peed a little. So when she releases a new book, I’m always excited and a little nervous because I’m filled with so much expectation. I am happy to report that My American Duchess was amazing and worked … Continue reading My American Duchess by Eloisa James
Fans of the Pennyroyal Green series have been waiting a long time for The Legend of Lyon Redmond. For those unfamiliar with the series, the Redmonds and the Everseas are the two most powerful, prestigious families of Pennyroyal Green. They are also at odds with each other, like Regency Capulet and Montagues. So OF COURSE an Eversea falls in loves with a Redmond. It’s destiny. This is book eleven in the series and up until … Continue reading The Legend of Lyon Redmond by Julie Anne Long
The Curse of Lord Stanstead by Mia Marlowe is a delightful blend of romance and paranormal. It’s like a Regency X-Men with hints of Hellboy and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I know a lot of you just sat up real straight: catnip alert ahoy! This is the first book in the MUSE series, MUSE standing for Metaphysical Union of Sensory Extraordinaires. Sticking with my earlier analogy, the Professor X of this group would be the … Continue reading The Curse of Lord Stanstead by Mia Marlowe
It took me awhile to really get into The Spinster’s Guide to Scandalous Behavior by Jennifer McQuiston. I’m not sure if that was totally the fault of the book or the fact that my brain is exhausted from my day job and I’m slowly crawling out of a reading slump. The book is brimming with awesome feminism and a beta-hero I loved, but it felt a little like the beginning dragged. Miss Lucy Westmore is a … Continue reading The Spinster’s Guide to Scandalous Behavior by Jennifer McQuiston
Scandal Takes the Stage is the second book in the Regency Wicked Quills of London series and while it didn’t have the same personal allure for me as the first book, Forever Your Earl, it was every bit as well-crafted and sexy. Maggie Delamere is a playwright who hates the aristocracy. In all of her plays, aristocratic men are rakish villains. So, of course, she has no interest at all in the extremely rakish and … Continue reading Scandal Takes the Stage by Eva Leigh
Let me start by saying that The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean is my favorite book of hers to date. If you’ve read her, or know me, then you know that I just said a thing. I mean, there is a scene in this book where the hero sensually rubs honey on the heroine’s body while she dreamily describes the bookstore she’ll own one day. Damn. The Rogue Not Taken is the first in … Continue reading The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean
I love the Pennyroyal Green series by Julie Anne Long. The fictional village in Sussex is one of those places I firmly believe really exists (or I really want to believe exists) and her books have a standing place on my “fibro sucks” reading shelf. When It Started with a Scandal came out I was super excited. I really enjoyed the story, but unfortunately, I felt that a lot of the actual development in the … Continue reading It Started with a Scandal by Julie Anne Long
Have you ever had the experience of enjoying a book as you were actually reading it and then five seconds after finishing it realizing that everything about the book was enraging? That was my experience with Alexander Smith McCall’s adaptation of Emma. I was so frustrated by the depiction of the character Emma that I kept flying into rages after I finished, but at the same time the side characters and the prose had sort of … Continue reading Emma by Alexander McCall Smith
While all of us here at the Bitchery love Mario Kart, I would probably say I’m the gamer amongst us. I played World of Warcraft very seriously (Burning Crusade expansion) for end game content. At one point, I was the second best geared in my class on my server, first on Alliance side. (I’m sorry if this all sounds like a foreign language!) I frequently helped host LAN parties for Halo tournaments. My favorite game … Continue reading Game Review: Regency Love
Everything about When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare worked for me. Everything. Bust out the squee mop, y’all because this review is just going to be a flappy-hands Good Book Noise® mess. Things this book has: 1. A sexy Scot hero I pictured as Sam Heughan. 2. A heroine who is a naturalist and illustrator. 3. Tons of UST. 4. A completely crazy sauce plot that Dare pulls off flawlessly. 5. A … Continue reading When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare
RECOMMENDED: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare is $2.99! This is the first book in the Castles Ever After historical romance series and it won a RITA this past week – yay! It currently has 4-star rating on GR. Sarah reviewed it and gave it a B+:
I think this is a truly unique historical that will appeal to readers who aren’t often historical fans. This story captures both a distant time period, and the present day, reflecting it in the characters – with a story and a parallel set of references beside it that grow together until the meaning of both is intertwined and layered into something I haven’t read before. This is a romance that is also a little bit about the community around romance, and all the many, many people who believe in it and have their fondness for it in common.
