So this year in the romance department I’m delving deeper into new authors with new series. Ellepkay has been recommending the Survivor’s Club series to me for quite a while now (probably close to a year), but starting in the late fall I decided to save some of these up for the hours and hours I will be sitting still under the heaviest thing in the world (although sleeping kittens are pretty much as heavy as a baby). The Survivor’s Club is a group of […]
Regency Romance Comfort Food with Enough Bite
Oh, Mary Balogh, reading one of your Regency romances is like slipping into a warm bath. Comfortable, always enjoyable and relaxing, you are so wonderfully consistent in your heartfelt stories about broken people finding a kindred spirit to fit their pieces to. Only a Promise is book six in Balogh’s current series, Survivors’ Club, and one I greatly enjoyed. The full series, so far, is as follows – The Proposal The Suitor The Arrangement The Escape Only Enchanting – also particularly enjoyable Only a Promise […]
Romance Despite Expectations
I read Mary Balogh’s Only Enchanting and Only a Promise fully intending to review them, but found that they mostly made me want to re-read The Proposal. I’m mostly reviewing The Proposal with some musings on Only Enchanting and Only a Promise thrown in. Mary Balogh writes a lot of romance series, and her characters all inhabit the same world and randomly pop up in unrelated books. It’s good in one way, because it’s nice to see favorite characters, even if it’s only a glimpse. […]
More Historical Romances and Lovely Ones at That
Mary Balogh’s lovely and touching Survivor’s Club series has what I am beginning realise is the central theme of many of her historical romances: Shuttered and broken people finding new lives and unexpected happiness. Who better to be given these second chances than soldiers and those who have seemingly lost everything? Six friends, five military men and one women, and their host, formed a close relationship while recovering from their experiences in the Napoleonic Wars at Pendarris Hall in Cornwall. Now back out in the […]