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Book Review: The Temptation of Grace by Kristin Vayden

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 31, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Temptation of Grace by Kristin Vayden

This is the third in the series about three Regency lords who manage a club called Temptations and how they find their loves, this one featuring Ramsay, Marquess of Sterling, the most strait-laced of the three, and Grace, the ward of one of the other two. Although both characters were introduced in previous books, this can be read as a standalone. Grace is unconventional in that she’s been educated and she is well traveled, having been to India and Egypt,among other places, w

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Book Review: Smitten By The Brit by Melonie Johnson

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 26, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Smitten By The Brit by Melonie Johnson

It’s very easy to root for a female main character when she finds her fiance cheating on her, but Melonie Johnson really didn’t need to pull that dirty trick on Bonnie Blythe to make me like her. Bonnie is, quite simply, fun, and she definitely deserved to end up with Theo, a thoroughly decent sort who’s torn between true love with Bonnie and the need to marry well to secure his family legacy, because Theo is a duke who’s inherited a lot of responsibilities and dependents and

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Book Review: Never Kiss A Notorious Marquess by Renee Ann Miller

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 12, 2019
1 min

Book Review: Never Kiss A Notorious Marquess by Renee Ann Miller

Caroline Lawrence is a wealthy young woman with a strict father, who hungers to make a difference in the world. Secretly writing reformist articles under the pen name C.M. Smith, she sneaks off to attend a speech by a noted suffragist but is injured and ends up in the home of the Marquess of Huntingdon with a nasty concussion. James, the marquess, is notorious through no fault of his own. He’s blamed for the death of his first wife, though it’s strongly implied later in the b

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Blog Tour and Book Review: The Determined Lord Hadleigh by Virginia Heath

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 2, 2019
3 min

Blog Tour and Book Review: The Determined Lord Hadleigh by Virginia Heath

I’m wracking my brains to recall if I’ve ever read a Regency romance where the hero was both an aristocrat and a man with a Proper Job, soldiers and spies excepted, and I honestly can’t remember one. Yes, this is part of a series and all the other heroes in the series are soldiers and/or spies, but Lord Hadleigh is… a lawyer. A barrister, actually, a senior prosecutor for the Crown, and an extremely hard-working one. The heroine is Penny, Lady Penhurst, or the former Lady Pen

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Book Review: The Rebel and the Cowboy by Sarah Mayberry

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 23, 2019
1 min

Book Review: The Rebel and the Cowboy by Sarah Mayberry

Eva King’s a city girl, an urban artist only in the country because her next art project will (she hopes) be a giant mural on an old grain elevator. Casey Carmody is a country boy, a cowboy who sings for a country band, working himself to the bone with his brothers and sister to keep the family ranch afloat. On paper, they seem like opposites, but opposites attract as often as not, and in this case, their attraction is instant and scorching hot. Chemistry aside, the more time

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Book Review: Second Chance Love: A Regency Romance Set

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 15, 2019
3 min

Book Review: Second Chance Love: A Regency Romance Set

This set of novellas are all second-chance romances, all featuring ‘older’ heroines. I think the youngest is about 31 and the oldest, well, it’s not polite to ask a lady’s age, but I’m going to guess around 50. It’s a really nice theme for a collection, and if you want to read about some older heroines, I’d definitely recommend giving this set a read. As I always do with collections, I’ll give each story a short individual review and rating, and then an overall rating for the

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Book Review: The Scent of Murder by Kylie Logan

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 8, 2019
3 min

Book Review: The Scent of Murder by Kylie Logan

The Scent of Murder is the first in a new series about Jazz Ramsey, a volunteer cadaver dog handler. Working with Luther, a cadaver dog in training, Jazz is shocked to stumble across a body in the abandoned building they’re using as a practice ground - and doubly so when she realizes she knows the victim. There’s a lot going on in Jazz’s personal life which makes her unwilling to walk away from this crime without getting some answers. In the last couple of years, she broke up

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Book Review: Logan's Lady by Rosanne Bittner

Caitlyn Lynch

May 27, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Logan's Lady by Rosanne Bittner

I had a bit of a wince early on in the story when an aristocratic lord in 1870’s London criticised his younger brother for ‘hanging out with’ an actress, and wondered if the whole story was going to be full of such contemporary slang. I’m glad I stuck with it, though, because the rest of the book does feel solidly period, bringing the Wild West vividly to life through the lens of Lady Elizabeth, who chooses to make a new life in America out from under the thumb of her control

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Caitlyn Lynch

Apr 1, 2019
1 min

Book Review: The Warrior by Sarah Fine

Ernie is a Dealer, a human empowered by her possession of a mystical deck of cards and their totem animal to perform acts which are simply magical - travelling in an instant to the other side of the world, for example. All Dealers are answerable to the Forger, however, a godlike being who can create new decks and totem animals and banish Dealers to hellish splinter dimensions on a whim. The new Forger, Victoria, may be gentler than the old one… but then again, she may not. Th

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Book Review: Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 20, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

Criminal defence attorney Morgan Dane and her fiance PI Lance Kruger return in Secrets Never Die, a story that begins with a sixteen-year-old boy walking in on his stepfather’s murder and then having to run for his life. The why of the murder and the where is the boy occupy Morgan and Lance throughout the story as they follow leads which seem to make no sense until long-buried secrets are dragged into the light. There are some nice slices of family life woven in, with appeara

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Book Review: Lucky Creek Lady by Shirley Kennedy

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 6, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Lucky Creek Lady by Shirley Kennedy

Set amid the fervor of California’s Gold Rush, the Lucky Creek Lady is Laurie Sinclair, whose father left a comfortable life in Philadelphia to chase dreams of gold. When her entomologist fiance goes on yet another expedition instead of setting a wedding date, Laurie sets of the visit her family in Lucky Creek, and at first she can’t wait to go home. Far from the civilized world she knows, Lucky Creek is a rough frontier town populated with rougher characters, like Darcy the

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Book Review: Believe In Me by Ella Quinn

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 2, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Believe In Me by Ella Quinn

Lady Augusta is a polymath with an insatiable curiosity for learning languages. Having sought out tutors to teach her everything she can, she hankers to attend university, which really wasn’t an option for women in the Regency era, at least not in England. Having done her research and used her connections as an earl’s sister, Augusta might, just might, be able to get admitted to university in Padua, Italy… if she can avoid her mother’s determination to marry her off and get h

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Book Review: The Wayward Bride by Anna Bradley

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 28, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Wayward Bride by Anna Bradley

For the first book in a new series, The Wayward Bride contains a lot of references to events which happened in a book in a completely different series, that being More Or Less A Temptress, which was the third in the Somerset Sisters series. We first met Isla Ramsay in that book when her older brother courted Hyacinth Somerset, and Isla got herself involved in a scandal for Hyacinth’s sake which saw her get engaged to Lord Sydney, a gentleman she likes very much but doesn’t lo

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Book Review: Mr Hunt, I Presume by Valerie Bowman

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 12, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Mr Hunt, I Presume by Valerie Bowman

I do like a good second-chance romance, and Mr. Hunt, I Presume fits the bill nicely if you’re looking for a quick, light read. Erienne and Collin were childhood sweethearts, but as a young soldier and the daughter of a baron, there was a class mismatch and her father refused to let them marry. Strong-willed and determined even when Collin gracefully left the field at her father’s bidding, Erienne refused all other suitors and took a position as a governess, which was a littl

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Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 11, 2019
3 min

Book Review: A Version of the Truth by B.P. Walter

Following dual timelines, this dark and twisty tale explores the way our wishes colour what we see. In 2019, Julianne is married to James and living a wealthy, comfortable life in exclusive Knightsbridge when her teenage son brings her something disturbing he’s found on the shared family drive, something which will rock the foundations of everything Julianne thinks she knows about her life. The timeline in 1990 follows Holly, an English student in her first term at Oxford Uni

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Book Review: Escaping His Grace by Kristin Vayden

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 3, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Escaping His Grace by Kristin Vayden

Sequel to Falling From His Grace, Escaping His Grace follows the Duke of Chatterworth’s second daughter, Samantha, in her desperate bid to avoid being married off at her father’s convenience. Hiding in Scotland as a governess to the Viscount Kilpatrick’s ward is about as safe as she can get, especially since the viscount is her new brother-in-law’s best friend. The only problem is, Heathcliff has no idea ‘Miss Miranda’ is the missing duke’s daughter who has half the country s

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Book Review: River Bodies by Karen Katchur

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 21, 2019
2 min

Book Review: River Bodies by Karen Katchur

The Delaware River is almost a character itself in this novel from Karen Katchur, with Katchur’s beautiful prose bringing the scenic area on the river’s banks to life as she explores characters in a small Pennsylvania town dominated by a biker gang. Anyone who’s watched Sons Of Anarchy can probably guess which direction the plot is headed in, but it’s how it gets there which is really interesting, viewed through the eyes of veterinarian Becca Kingsley, who left her small home

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Book Review: Her Pretty Bones by Carla Kovach

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 19, 2019
1 min

Book Review: Her Pretty Bones by Carla Kovach

Her Pretty Bones is the third in the DI Gina Harte series, and begins with an emaciated young woman falling from the back of a moving van. Too badly injured to live, she is only able to utter two words to the witness who finds her. “Save her” and with those two words, Gina knows that a clock is ticking on another young woman's life. Domestic slavery is a subject that's not explored much in fiction, with a lot of human slavery stories focusing on the sexual aspects of such cri

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Book Review: The Marked Lord by Sharon Ibbotson

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 15, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Marked Lord by Sharon Ibbotson

Some scars aren’t visible on the outside. Sophy knows that all too well. Orphaned at eight, widowed at sixteen when her husband of a single day fell to the revolutionaries of France, she became a spy for the British and used her beauty and wits to survive. Now compromised, she must return home at last, to her not quite stepbrother, Lord Ravenscourt. Fitz carries his scars on the outside, legacy of the terrible fire which killed his mother and left him badly burned and with a

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Book Review: The Bride Chooses A Highlander by Adrienne Basso

Caitlyn Lynch

Dec 20, 2018
2 min

Book Review: The Bride Chooses A Highlander by Adrienne Basso

In 1335, Lady Katherine McKenna is a very rare woman indeed; beautiful, rich and the daughter of a powerful laird, she nonetheless has her father’s ear and his promise that she may choose her own husband. Even with this promise, at age 22 she’s feeling the pressure and finally chooses one of her many suitors. It’s not until after the betrothal contracts are signed that she realizes she’s made a dreadful mistake, at which point she makes a really stupid mistake and tries to go

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