I discovered Juliana Gray’s Affairs by Moonlight trilogy much like I have any other romance series – on Cannonball, after reading Mrs Julien’s reviews. I probably won’t have much to say that she hasn’t added herself but here goes. Since the books go together I’ll just review them all together here. A Lady Never Lies tells the story of Lady Alexandra Morley, a recently-widowed young woman with a lot less financial stability than people think, and Phineas Burke (aka Finn), a genius bastard (literally, his […]
NOT Another Historical Romance. I’m Joking, Of Course. It’s Three Historical Romances.
Who else loves to see an autocratic hero brought down a peg? My newfound delight in Juliana Gray continues with the historical romance trilogy Affairs by Moonlight which includes A Lady Never Lies, A Gentleman Never Tells, and A Duke Never Yields. If you read them in order, you have two books to wait before the aforementioned peg lowering and they are a really enjoyable ride. The Set Up: It’s 1890. Three aristocratic/aristocrat adjacent English men rent a villa in Tuscany to escape Society, explore […]
Another Historical Romance, But a Twofer with Displaced Princesses
New author! Juliana Gray is a very strong historical romance writer with a wonderful turn of phrase, a gift for simile, and great smolder. It is such an unexpected pleasure when a book randomly selected from the romance spinner at one’s library results in a new novelist to enjoy. I went back the next day, and the next, to get more of her books. Gray will be going on my woefully short good authors list and may well end up as an autobuy. The Princesses […]