My Season of Scandal by Julie Anne LongThe Palace of Rogues #7Historical RomanceApril 23, 024- AvonARC Review by Angela Julie Anne Long is one of my favorite historical romance authors and The Palace of Rogues one of my very favorite series. I'm always thrilled at the chance to visit the beloved residents and guests of The Grand Palace on the Thames. My Season of Scandal is an age gap romance, introducing Catherine Keating, an innocent country bred young woman who has come to Continue Reading
Review: The Dance of Desire by Delphine Ross
The Dance of Desire by Delphine RossMuses of Scandal #2Historical RomanceFebruary 22, 2024- Self-PublishedARC Review by Angela After reading the first book in the Muses of Scandal series, which I enjoyed, I was pumped to read book two, which features Angela and her childhood best friend, Sunny, the Earl of Sunderland. Readers were introduced to Angela Bartham in The Poetics of Passion, she is the sister of Musa and determined to make a good match to help support her family. For Continue Reading
Retro Review: Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt
Review originally posted in May of 2016 at Fiction Vixen by Angela. The tenth book in the Maiden Lane series featuring the dastardly, vain Duke of Montgomery has been eagerly anticipated by this reader. I’m always a bit intrigued by the anti-hero and how an author will ultimately redeem him. Or if they can get me to believe their redemption and emotional connection to that one special person who makes them want to become better. There certainly hasn’t been a man who fits the role of Continue Reading
Review: Never Blow a Kiss by Lindsay Lovise
Never Blow a Kiss by Lindsay LoviseSecret Society of Governess Spies #1Historical RomanceJanuary 23, 2024- ForeverARC Review by Angela I was pleasantly surprised by this debut. It's not often a historical romance features not one but two blue collar, everyday protagonists. One is a woman on the run from her past, serving as a governess who also happens to be a spy and the other a soldier who turned his earnings into a fortune by investing in railroads, currently working for the Continue Reading
Review: Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban
Don't Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. AlbanLGBTQ Historical RomancePublished on January 9, 2024 -AvonReviewed by Kate Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend is a delightful sapphic romance novel. It is also a rare romance novel these days that was advertised as something and then delivered on it! Though it touched on some heavy topics at times, it also had lighthearted parts, and it was a quick and fun read. One of the things that I love about historical romance novels with queer Continue Reading
Review: You’re the Duke That I Want by Lenora Bell
You're the Duke That I Want by Lenora BellHistorical RomanceDecember 28, 2023- AvonARC Review by Angela I really love Lenora Bell and her historical romances--which is why I skipped right over the blurb and just hit the request now button when the ARC became available. I really wish I had read the blurb and some of the early reviews. This is a historical romance based loosely (not really) on the movie Grease. I had my suspicions with the title, the first several chapters, and the Continue Reading
Retro Review: The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan Byrne
Review originally posted on Fiction Vixen in September of 2018 by Angela The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan ByrneVictorian Rebels #6Historical RomanceAugust 28, 2018 by St. Martin's Favorite Quote: There are only two indisputable facts in this world. The sun will set in the west, and I’ll come for you. Always. I adore this author. Absolutely, positively adore. She writes bad boy, tortured anti-heroes like no other. Before reading The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo I Continue Reading
Review: One Night in Hartswood by Emma Denny
One Night in Hartswood by Emma DennyHistorical Romance/LGBTQ+November 7, 2023 by Mills & Boon Review by Kate H. One Night in Hartswood begins with both main characters lying to one another about who they are. William de Foucart, aka Penn, is fleeing an oppressive marriage arranged by his abusive father who needs this alliance and is repulsed by his son’s preference for men. Penn is posing as a servant. Raff Barden, who is supposed to be hunting his sister’s fleeing fiancé, Continue Reading
Review: Some Winter’s Evening by Erin Langston
Some Winter's Evening by Erin LangstonHistorical Romance NovellaNovember 1, 2023Self-published Review by Melanie Here I am, once again ready to wax poetic about an Erin Langston book much the same way Cora Travers is likely to wax poetic about Nate Travers’ dimples while under the influence of too much ratafia. You might recognize Cora and Nate as the two main characters in Langston’s debut full length novel, Forever Your Rogue, a book I read and adored some months ago, to the point that Continue Reading
Review: In Which Winnie Halifax Is Utterly Ruined by Alexandra Vasti
In Which Winnie Halifax Is Utterly Ruined by Alexandra VastiHalifax Hellions #3Historical RomanceFree novella on author's website Review by Angela Do y'all remember when I featured the first two FREE NOVELLAS in this series? Here let me remind you: Review- The Halifax Hellions Duet by Alexandra Vasti This is the third, and last, book about the Halifax siblings. Spencer Halifax is about to meet his match when he goes to retrieve his fake wife from her sheep farm. To say I was Continue Reading