Oh, Ms. Milan… when it comes to romance novellas you are the cream of the crop. I have not read the first book in this series yet, Once Upon a Marquess, but that doesn’t matter here. While you briefly visit the previous heroine, she’s not at all central to this story and it’s lovely leads. This time we have Daisy, a shopgirl with ambitions, and Crash, a bit of a bad boy, also with ambitions. These two met and fell in love before this story […]
“Come to My Side,” He Murmured. “We Have Baked Goods and Tea.”
Courtney Milan Iconoclast … is what I assume Ms. Milan’s business cards say. Could she please to stop almost bringing me to tears with her messages of empowerment and self-determination? Why almost? Because I am made of steel. Why tears? Because the truths she writes about touch me deeply. Her Every Wish is the first novella in Milan’s new Worth Saga Victorian romance series. In the long-term, it will contain eight books for us to devour, for now there is just one other novel, Once […]
A worthwhile down-payment on a series that I am sure will improve.
3.5 stars, rounded up out of loyalty Something felt a bit *off* about Once Upon a Marquess: possibly, it is bogged down by setting the stage for the entire Worth Saga. Also possibly, and related, it was just kind of ambitious and didn’t quite pull everything together in a convincing way by the end. To wit: Treason! Judith Worth’s father and brother are guilty of it! And the evidence thereof was compiled by none other than our hero, Christian Trent, the Marquess of Ashford! Kittens! […]
Imperfect Courtney Milan, Is Still Courtney Milan
Courtney Milan is the best, the very best, romance writer currently publishing, but she is not perfect and Once Upon a Marquess is a delightfully imperfect novel. Her trademark elements – eloquence, unexpected romantic moments, family politics, deciding for oneself who one will be – are here, they just don’t come together quite as successfully as they have in some of her previous efforts. The first book in her new Worth Saga, Milan is laying a lot of groundwork and she is mostly successful in […]