Bleh. I just did not like this book very much. I wanted something historical and heartfelt and I have loved everything else I have read by Carla Kelly, so I thought this would be a safe choice. It just wasn’t very good. There is a lot of plot packed in to one little book. James Trevenan was a sailor who survived a shipwreck and lived alone on a deserted island for five years (somewhere in the early 1800s – George III is still King, but […]
In War and Love Stories
So Ellepkay continues to just send me Carla Kelly books without asking if I want them or not. Turns out, she continues to be right in that I want them and will happily read them all! This time we have In Love and War a collection of four short stories that take place around-ish the Napoleonic Wars/War of 1812. These four stories are unlike a lot of romance on the market these days. In the first story the heroine is a Quaker and the hero […]
A girl in pants romance!
So today was a lesson that I clearly need to re-learn regularly. When Mrs. J and Ellepkay recommend an author just go find them immediately. Carla Kelly, I now know what a treat you are! Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career is the story of Ellen Grimsley, a studious young lady who dreams of learning and being more than a farmer’s wife. James Gatewood, Lord Chesney, is a studious young man who only has one year left at Oxford before accepting the responsibility of being a lord […]
As Primitive as Can Be – A Historical Romance
My list of unread novels from Carla Kelly’s Regency romance catalog is ever dwindling. I have as much faith that I will get to all of them eventually as Kelly herself does in the innate goodness of people. Beau Crusoe, like Libby’s London Merchant, goes in a different direction from many romances and it was pleasing to read something a little bit different and from such a skilled and experienced author. From Amazon: Stranded alone on a desert island, he had lived to tell the tale. A […]