1.5 stars WARNING! This review WILL contain fairly specific plot spoilers, but it’s an awful book, so you don’t want to read it anyway, and should thank me for explaining in detail why you should avoid it. Jessica Wentworth is probably the most successful actress in London, but she’s hiding a deep dark secret. Her real name is Julia Hargate and she’s been married to the Marquess of Savage since they were both children. Julia ran away from home and has been disowned, she only […]
A heroine no one but Jane Austen herself could love
So does anyone actually need me to recap the plot ofEmma, a nearly two hundred year old classic which has been adapted any number of times, currently as a successful YouTube webseries in Emma Approved? To be fair, I’m not sure even half of my actual real life friends have read this book, so I’ll be nice to you. Emma Woodhouse is twenty-one, the youngest daughter of a prosperous country gentleman and her governess, Miss Taylor, who more or less raised her from she was very little, has […]
A historical romance with a Gothic romance novelist hero
4.5 stars Sebastian Grey is handsome, charming and welcome everywhere in polite society because he is the sole male heir of his uncle, the Earl of Newbury, and if said uncle dies before he’s able to father more male offspring, Sebastian will be the new earl. Of course, Lord Newbury hates his nephew and is doing all he can to find a nice, fertile young woman to bear him more children to prevent just this from happening. So Sebastian could be the best catch a […]
A historical romance with a Botticelli painting and accurate fashion depictions
Leonie Noirot is the youngest of the three Noirot sisters, and the only one still unmarried and able to spend all her energies on running Maison Noirot, the sisters’ successful dressmaking shop in St. James. The eldest sister, Marcelline (from Silk is for Seduction) is currently pregnant and rather indisposed and the middle sister Sophy (from Scandal Wears Satin) is off on an extended wedding trip in Scotland until the scandal surrounding her nuptials dies down. Each sister has their own strengths, in Leonie’s case, it’s finance. She’s a […]