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Historical Romance Book Reviews
Please note that I do not review JAFF novels as a general rule, nor am I accepting review requests at this time.
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Kissing Under The Mistletoe Anthology
An anthology of novellas from three authors, all written with at least one scene where the main couple kiss under the mistletoe, though...
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Mistletoe Christmas Anthology
A quartet of novellas all set at the same Christmas house party, the Duke of Greystoke’s infamous Revelry. But the Duke is ailing, and...
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Undercover Duke by Sabrina Jeffries
As the fourth book in the Duke Dynasty series about the children of a three-time Duchess, absolutely do not start here. You won’t have a...
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Jane Austen's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd by Zöe Wheddon
This is a biography of a character many might consider of little importance to history, since she was neither titled, a producer of great...
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Duchess If You Dare by Anabelle Bryant
I really like the premise of this series about the Maidens of Mayhem, four Regency-era women doing their best to right wrongs in London....
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The Duke is Wicked by Tracy Sumner
This is the third book in the League of Lords series about aristocrats (mostly aristocrats) with paranormal abilities in the Victorian...
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Old Sins by Jane A. Adams
In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, a rash of suicides turn out to be anything but as Detective Chief Inspector Henry...
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Her Banished Knight's Redemption by Melissa Oliver
When I read The Rebel Heiress and the Knight, the first book in this series, I enjoyed it but thought the conflict between the characters...
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His Unlikely Duchess by Amanda McCabe
Lily Wilkins is a ‘dollar princess’, a daughter of a wealthy American known as the Coal King, brought to London by her mother in order...
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The Princess and the Rogue by Kate Bateman
This has been a very solid series about the Bow Street Bachelors, three war heroes who returned to England and found new purpose working...
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Ten Days with a Duke by Erica Ridley
The Duke in this, the eleventh book in Erica Ridley’s 12 Dukes of Christmas series, is actually a horse - a prize stud stallion belonging...
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Under the Warrior's Protection by Ella Matthews
After a traumatic adolescence, all Katherine Leofric wants is peace and stability, and to see her beloved younger sister Linota...
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One Night with a Duke by Erica Ridley
Though all the novellas in this series stand pretty well alone, I think this one is best read in conjunction with Dawn with a Duke, since...
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Highland Gladiator by Kathryn Le Veque
I have a bit of an issue with the basic premise of this series, which is that an English knight spent time in Rome fighting as a...
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Who Wants To Marry A Duke by Sabrina Jeffries
Absolutely do not pick up here if you haven’t read the first two books in the Duke Dynasty series, because the overarching plot about the...
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To Catch an Earl by Kate Bateman
Some people inherit fortunes. Emmy’s inherited something rather more unusual… the title of Europe’s most notorious jewel thief. She...
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The Rebel Heiress and the Knight by Melissa Oliver
In the year King John was forced by the Rebel Barons to sign the Magna Carta, much of England was suffering. Eleanor of Tallany must give...
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The Rebel Wears Plaid by Eliza Knight
I absolutely love the concept of this new series based on some of the real-life women of the Jacobite rebellion. The three women we meet...
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Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson
A Regency era gothic romance, the story follows Elizabeth Cantrell as she attempts to travel to take up a new position as a housekeeper,...
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A Study In Murder by Callie Hutton
In the late Victorian era, murder mystery novels were all the rage. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s were the most popular of all, and it was...
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