Angela: Hey y'all! It's half way into 2019 and Goodreads says I've read 78 books. My goal is 125 this year, so at the moment I'm ahead of schedule. I'm trying to incorporate more books that have been sitting on my TBR shelf into my reading schedule, but I can't seem to stop requesting review ARCs. I have willpower issues, I know this. Lol. As you can see, I'm a genre jumper. I vary rarely read in the same genre two books in a row. I read a ton of fantasy, urban fantasy, science fiction, Continue Reading
Angela Tuesday Thoughts- May Historical Romance Edition
A Rogue in the Night by Kelly BowenThe Devils of Dover #3May 28, 2019 by Forever KINDLE * BN * GOODREADS If you've read the first two books in this series you will definitely remember Sir Harland Hayward. Brother to Clara and Rose, who is both a Baron and a doctor... and apparently a smuggler as well. His heroine is Katherine Wright. Daughter to a local smuggling family and a damn fine surgeon. Harland and Katherine kind of crash into each other one night when she is patching up her Continue Reading
Angela’s Monday Mornings
Any Old Diamonds by KJ CharlesLilywhite Boys #1M/M Historical RomanceJanuary 30, 2019 Self Published Favorite Quote: "Talk about making a profit on a job. I stole you, and I'm keeping you." I'm always excited when I open a new KJ Charles romance. I'm especially excited when the author herself describes one of the heroes as "more sociopathic than usual" and says the book is based on a real crime. Lord Alexander Pyne-ffoulkes is the younger son of the Duke of Ilvar. He's currently Continue Reading
Angela’s Monday Mornings
What I read this week: Band Sinister by K.J Charles Historical M/M October 11, 2018 by KJC Books I loved this book. Loved, loved, loved. This might even be my favorite romance by KJ Charles. I was scrolling through twitter a while back and came upon a tweet by the author saying that she had gone "Full Heyer" and that there were all the tropes my heart could possibly desire and from that moment on I was all in. Virgin country gentleman forced into close proximity with his dastardly (but not Continue Reading
Review: Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles
Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles Series: Green Men #1 Historical, Romantic Suspense, M/M August 3, 2017 KJC Books Favorite Quote: Randolph let go then, driving into him as though fucking could make everything all right, and for a few seconds, as he shot and shuddered, it did. Reviewed by Tracey Archaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he scrapes a living working for a rich eccentric who believes in magic. Saul knows it’s a lot of Continue Reading
Feature: Spectred Isle by K.J. Charles
London 1923. Arcanist Randolph Glyde first bumped into Saul Lazenby when a sacred tree inexplicably caught fire. Lazenby presents himself as an innocent bystander working for the eccentric Major Peabody. But Randolph isn’t sure he believes that... Randolph had rather liked the way it had been in his war: casual encounters when one had the time and inclination, to which the authorities turned a blind eye because there weren’t enough occultists to waste any over petty morality; no tiresome Continue Reading
Review: An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles
An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles (Sins of the Cities #2) Released: June 6, 2017 Historical M/M Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "You - are the worst man - I have ever met." Lazarus's teeth scraped his shoulder. "And yet here you are, under me...." Guys, there is hot hate sex in this book. Do I need to say more? The Seer of London, Justin Lazarus, makes a living calling spirits from beyond the veil, gladly taking people's money to tell them what they want to Continue Reading
Review: An Unseen Attraction by K.J. Charles
An Unseen Attraction by K.J Charles (Sins of the Cities #1) Released: February 21, 2017 Historical M/M Romance Loveswept Reviewed by Mandi What a cute and lovely story. As someone on Twitter said, it's a gentle romance, and that's a great way to describe it. We have two beta heroes in love, but stand up for each other when it counts. Clem Talleyfer is a lodging-house keeper, meaning he is in charge of a houseful of tenants - keeping them locked up safe at night, and making sure his Continue Reading
Review: Wanted, a Gentleman by KJ Charles
Wanted, a Gentleman by KJ Charles Released: January 9, 2017 Historical M/M Riptide Reviewed by Mandi Favorite Quote: "You don't give an inch, do you?" "I just took at least eight," Theo pointed out. I really need to go back and read KJ Charles's backlist - as I've only read a couple by her and what I have read I've really enjoyed. In this book she gives us a more serious stoic hero paired with a wily, cocky hero - and the pairing really worked for me. Theo makes a Continue Reading
Wanted, A Gentleman Book Tour *Giveaway*
Romantic fiction, Georgian style My new book, Wanted, a Gentleman is set in 1805, with a hero, Theo Swann, who runs a Lonely Hearts magazine and writes Gothic romance on the side. These sound like very 1970s sort of jobs, but Lonely Hearts go way back (I’ve written about them elsewhere on this tour) and the “romance” novel has a long and complicated history. At first ‘romance’ meant, basically, ‘a fictional adventure story’, and it hung on to that meaning for a while. The Continue Reading