#Regencyromance

Jul 9, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Rake's Enticing Proposal by Lara Temple

The proposal of the rake in this story isn't quite what you might expect; if a rake asked me to be his sister's companion on a trip to Egypt, I don't think I'd think twice about accepting. Eleanor, the heroine of the story, does, but only because she has other responsibilities, with younger siblings and a crumbling estate to manage. The first half of the story deals with a rather intriguing setup; Eleanor is fake-engaged to her best friend Henry, Chase Sinclair’s cousin, who

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Book Review: One Night to Remember by Erica Ridley

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 4, 2019
2 min

Book Review: One Night to Remember by Erica Ridley

This is the fifth book in the Wicked Dukes series, but stands pretty well alone if you haven’t read any of the rest. I haven’t, and I really had no trouble following along with the action. I really enjoy the way Erica Ridley reaches for a far-fetched premise to create a really unusual character, and then somehow makes it fit absolutely perfectly into the ‘Regency world’. In this case, Lady Felicity is the sister of a duke, and she and her brother grew up poor before he unexpe

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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: Project Duchess by Sabrina Jeffries

Caitlyn Lynch

Jul 2, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Project Duchess by Sabrina Jeffries

Before you dive into reading this first book in a brand new series by Sabrina Jeffries, take a moment to carefully peruse the family tree laid out at the beginning, detailing the three marriages of Lydia, Duchess of Armitage (and before that, Duchess of Thornlands, and before that, Duchess of Greycourt) her five children from those three marriages, and their assorted cousins on their fathers’ sides. Got that? Good. Otherwise you’re going to get in a terrible muddle over who’s

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Book Review: Falling for a Rake by Eve Pendle

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 28, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Falling for a Rake by Eve Pendle

I’ve got to be completely honest here. Two pages into this book and I was already inclined to give it five stars, because this is the first fiction book I have EVER read, in ANY genre, which starts off by carefully listing appropriate trigger warnings. Until mainstream fiction figures out some way to follow the lead of fandom and adopt a coherent tagging system for trigger warnings - one which is followed by all authors on pain of getting flamed to death by furious reviewers

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Book Review: Rogue Most Wanted by Janna MacGregor

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 26, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Rogue Most Wanted by Janna MacGregor

This is the fifth book in the Cavensham Heiresses series, but reads decently well as a standalone. Fans of the series will no doubt be delighted by the appearance of many of their favourites, but for me the best parts of the book were the sections where it was just Will and Theodora (and Aunt Stella) at Ladykyrke, the estate Theo inherited and is in danger of losing because she can’t prove her right to it. That and the parts about Theodora’s grandfather, who she nursed throug

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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 Earl Next Door by Amelia Grey

Caitlyn Lynch

Jun 12, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Earl Next Door by Amelia Grey

Adeline is a happy widow. Her former husband was a controlling, abusive type who constantly criticized her for not giving him a child. His death in a shipwreck has left her financially independent, and she’s using her money for a good cause, setting up a small school for the orphaned daughters of the sailors who perished in the same shipwreck. Now, if only the bothersome earl next door would just make himself scarce… Honestly, I found myself wishing Lyon would do just that. T

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Book Review: A Lord Apart by Jane Ashford

Caitlyn Lynch

Apr 4, 2019
2 min

Book Review: A Lord Apart by Jane Ashford

Though this is the second in a series, it can absolutely be read as a standalone, since there’s only one character really in common with the first book. There’s some intriguing themes explored here about the different types of abuse a person can suffer; Daniel, while never physically abused and always receiving food and shelter, was completely ignored and unloved by his only relatives, his parents. Now they’re gone and he’s inherited a viscountcy he’s utterly unprepared to ma

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Blog Tour and Book Review: The Disgraceful Lord Gray by Virginia Heath

Caitlyn Lynch

Apr 1, 2019
2 min

Blog Tour and Book Review: The Disgraceful Lord Gray by Virginia Heath

A decade after his childhood love threw him over for his older brother and he lost his inheritance at the gaming tables in a fit of despair, Lord Graham “Gray” Chadwick is back in England, older and a great deal wise for his years in the merchant navy. Now working for the Elites, a team of government agents hot on the heels of a dangerous smuggling gang, Gray is in line to become commander of the Elites, if he can just identify “The Boss”. The Elites have narrowed their suspe

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Book Review: The Earl's Runaway Governess by Catherine Tinley

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 25, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Earl's Runaway Governess by Catherine Tinley

Fleeing her lecherous, tyrannical stepbrother’s guardianship, Marianne Grant has little choice but to try and conceal herself in a household which wants a governess to teach a young girl ladylike ways. Arriving at the Earl of Kingswood’s household to care for his niece, she’s distressed to find the Earl, Ash, is of an age with her stepbrother and shares at least some of the same habits. Hiding under his nose may prove to be impossible, especially since from the beginning she’

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Bok Review: A Lady's Virtue by A.S. Fenichel

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 22, 2019
1 min

Bok Review: A Lady's Virtue by A.S. Fenichel

I really like this series of novels about the ladies of the Everton Domestic Society, young women of good families but limited resources who accept special short-term assignments to assist those who require their special skills. In A Lady’s Virtue, Miss Sylvia Dowder is hired to act as temporary hostess for Anthony Braighton, the new Earl of Grafton. Sylvia was almost married, but when her fiance unexpectedly inherited a viscountcy, he jilted her because she was no longer lof

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Book Review: A Spy's Guide To Seduction by Kate Moore

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 18, 2019
2 min

Book Review: A Spy's Guide To Seduction by Kate Moore

This is the third installment in a genuinely delightful series by Kate Moore; you don’t need to have read the previous books to enjoy this one, however, as previous characters appear very little and there aren’t really any ongoing plot threads you can’t easily pick up. ‘On the shelf’ at twenty-eight, Emily is being pressured to marry by her mother, and jokingly threatens to her sister that she’ll marry the first imbecile she meets. Unknown to Emily, there’s a man asleep on he

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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: Lady Notorious by Theresa Romain

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 26, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Lady Notorious by Theresa Romain

If you like 100% historical accuracy in your Regency romances, this definitely isn’t the book for you. With a female Bow Street Runner (in all but the salary) and the son of a Duke as romantic protagonists, there are aspects of the story that definitely fail the plausibility test. That said, it was absolutely brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yes, yes, I know, I’m normally a nitpicky cow about historical inaccuracies, but there’s a difference between implausible and impo

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Book Review: The Truth About Miss Ashbourne by Joanna Barker

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 22, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Truth About Miss Ashbourne by Joanna Barker

This is a sweet Regency romance written, unusually, in first person. The protagonist is one Juliana Ashbourne, at the beginning of the novel a governess in a London household to a young boy and girl. She’s on shaky ground with her employers though, since the husband has nefarious intentions towards her and the wife dislikes Juliana’s influence over her daughter in particular. Hence, the news that the maternal grandfather she’s never met has died and left her a substantial for

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Book Review: The Governess by Christi Caldwell

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 13, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Governess by Christi Caldwell

There were several moments early on in this book where I badly wanted to smack Broderick Killoran upside the head for being an arrogant, judgemental idiot. I’m glad I stuck with it, though, because he actually listened to his sisters and the heroine telling him he was wrong and tried to do better. If you haven’t read The Vixen and The Hellion, the previous two books in the Wicked Wallflowers series, you’re going to come into this one seriously confused as to who everyone is.

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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: Ladies Of Intrigue by Michelle Griep

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 6, 2019
3 min

Book Review: Ladies Of Intrigue by Michelle Griep

I was about a quarter of the way into The Gentleman Smuggler’s Lady, the first in this three-book collection, when I started getting an unsettling feeling of deja vu. A few more pages and I was sure I’d read the book before, though it took a close look at my Goodreads library before I figured out where. It was part of a box set called The Regency Brides Collection, published in 2017. Obviously a limited time run, that set is no longer available and the author has bundled this

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