Despite the wonderful writing and Juliana Gray’s consistent ability to create interesting characters and throw in some excitement, I couldn’t fully enjoy the Victorian romance novella The Duke of Olympia Meets His Match, but I didn’t mind. I paid a reasonable sum for the book, and since I borrowed all of her other novels from the library, I am happy to have contributed to Gray’s coffers. May she enjoy my shekels in good health and continue to devise the complex, dovetailed series plots and wonderful characterizations at which she excels. From Amazon: Aboard […]
My every wish
Does Courtney Milan know how to bounce back or what? After the slight letdown that was Once Upon a Marquess, she gifts her adoring public with the practically-perfect-in-every-way Her Every Wish, the rare (for me) novella that tells a fully-realized story in its shorter framework and avoids the pitfalls of contrivance or half-baked narrative that really could have benefited from the full-length treatment to give it depth. Our heroine is Daisy, best friend of Judith Worth from the former novel. Daisy does okay for herself […]
“Come to My Side,” He Murmured. “We Have Baked Goods and Tea.”
Courtney Milan Iconoclast … is what I assume Ms. Milan’s business cards say. Could she please to stop almost bringing me to tears with her messages of empowerment and self-determination? Why almost? Because I am made of steel. Why tears? Because the truths she writes about touch me deeply. Her Every Wish is the first novella in Milan’s new Worth Saga Victorian romance series. In the long-term, it will contain eight books for us to devour, for now there is just one other novel, Once […]
Horse Puckey – A Historical Romance
Lovehating Jennifer Ashley’s books continues to be my romance reading pleasurannoyance. This entry into her Victorian Mackenzie series (listed below) isn’t even a kissing book, A Mackenzie Clan Gathering is a story about her most popular hero as the writer cashes in on the success of her novels. I don’t begrudge her that, a woman’s got to eat. HOWEVER, right off the top, I am saying it: I don’t believe that Jennifer Ashley wrote this book. I think it was ghostwritten. There were telltale stylistic […]