Genevieve Stafford, our heroine, is considered to be aloof, respectable and everything a lady of Regency should be. She’s also worried that she will never marry, so she decides to pray at the shrine of St. Dwynwen to find love. The legend of the saint was told to her previously (in one of the other books in this series, which I haven’t read) but she finally decided it couldn’t hurt. And voila, her prayers are answered and she meets Lord Dursford as she is leaving […]
A new to me author I will warily keep my eye on
This is a Victorian marriage of convenience story. With a description like that I was willing to try a new author. Victoria is an American heiress who has been raised to try and marry in to the British aristocracy. She has no expectations of a love match and all she really wants is the freedom from her parents that a marriage will bring. Andrew is the second son of an impoverished duke whose older brother has recently died. Victoria’s father basically wins Andrew in a […]
Mediocre Sports Romance
This book is not a ‘good’ book, but it’s one I enjoyed. It’s biggest downfall is lack of editing. It runs nearly 700 pages and she repeatedly misuses the word ‘passed’ for ‘past’. No, seriously, I’m not sure what was wrong with me when reading this. Misusing words like that would normally be a complete dealbreaker for me, and yet, here we are. I actively chose this book because it was the first week of the NFL season and I wanted to get in the […]
Yet another rave review for Act Like It
Have you ever watched Slings and Arrows? If so, and you found it delightful (although how could you not?!) then this is a romance novel for you! It started off with Ellepkay at the beginning of the year, and after that Act Like It has just snowballed into already one of our most read books of the year on here because yes, it is that fun. It’s a story of London stage actors Lainie (an up and comer) and Richard (actor extraordinaire and all around […]