This review is for the audiobook version of The Duke of Sin, by Elizabeth Hoyt. I’m generally a fan of Elizabeth Hoyt, so when I saw that my library had a new audiobook from her I jumped at the chance, but this one was a bust. The biggest flaw is that the hero is a horrible person. He literally kills a man in front of our heroine, and they hide a body. The dead man didn’t even threaten them, he just betrayed the Duke by […]
A Girl Named Alf
This book is the eleventh in the Maiden Lane series by Elizabeth Hoyt, and it’s a good one! I’ve read all in the series, and it had its ups and downs along the way but this one is an excellent addition. Ms Hoyt manages to keep things fresh, and provide a good mix of romance and adventure along the way. These books have featured many characters from both ends of the class spectrum over the years, and this one brings the return of The Ghost […]
Not entirely my cuppa tea, but YMMV, Roundup
As told by a short synopsis and my Kindle notes while reading them. Stealing Jason Wilde by Dee Ernst – Here we have a book about four grown women who kind-of-sort-of kidnap an actor, only not really, while on vacation. Wilde passes out in their car and they have to Weekend at Bernie’s him into their beach house, and his stupid manager tells him to stay hidden and calls the FBI, and all of these women somehow make the bad decision to play along? And […]
Where I have nothing nice to say about a book I didn’t actually hate
2.5 stars I’ll be perfectly honest — I think I’m in a little bit of a historical romance funk right now and I didn’t like this book as much as I could have. Let’s break it down. Plot There was too much plot and little of it was entirely reasonable. Plot 1: the romance, ostensibly. I’ll get more into this later. Plot 2: Temperance and the Foundling Home, needing a patron. This is part of the contrivance behind Temperance and Lord Caire’s “agreement,” where his […]