#historicalromance

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: London's Best Kept Secret by Annabelle Bryant

Caitlyn Lynch

May 31, 2019
2 min

Book Review: London's Best Kept Secret by Annabelle Bryant

I’m going to come right out and say it; if you’ve been reading other reviews and thinking this is a ‘marriage of convenience turns to love’ kind of book? That’s not what this is. This is, in fact, a ‘complete scum bag ruins heroine’s family so she is forced to marry him’ kind of book. And really… is there a way back from a hole that deep? It gets worse when you realize that since Charlotte was in her first season, she was EIGHTEEN when Lord Dearing pulled off this nasty plot.

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Book Review: Highland Crown by May McGoldrick

Caitlyn Lynch

May 29, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Highland Crown by May McGoldrick

So many Highlander romances ignore the harsh realities of life in Scotland, the way those not in the top 1% in particular suffered under English rule, and the sheer callousness many had to adopt as their way of life just to try and survive. Highland Crown is the rare novel which does none of these things. Beginning with the way the heroine, Isabella, is on the run after her husband was murdered just for trying to give medical aid to men injured in an Edinburgh riot. Isabella’

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Book Review: How To Marry A Highlander by Michele Sinclair

Caitlyn Lynch

Apr 6, 2019
1 min

Book Review: How To Marry A Highlander by Michele Sinclair

While I quite liked Adanel, the heroine of this book, the hero Dugan was a complete and utter A double S hole. I just could not with his blaming Adanel for everything. She TOLD HIM that her father was a powerful, abusive, dangerous man who butchered the first man she wanted to marry before her eyes, Dugan literally had to rescue her from a tower where she’d been locked up for months, and then he insisted on believing she was in league with her father all along. Adanel got in

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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: An Unwilling Earl by Sharon Cullen

Caitlyn Lynch

Mar 31, 2019
2 min

Book Review: An Unwilling Earl by Sharon Cullen

There’s a few intriguingly different plotlines happening in this story which mesh together to create an overall very interesting story. A serial killer in Victorian London is killing young servant women and dumping headless, handless bodies into the Thames. In a seemingly unrelated matter, a solicitor inherits an earldom and is almost simultaneously approached by a lady looking for her missing niece. While Jacob has no intention of taking the case on, by chance he runs into C

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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: 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: Nobody's Duke by Scarlett Scott

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 23, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Nobody's Duke by Scarlett Scott

Set in 1882, Nobody’s Duke follows the widowed Duchess of Burghly as she tries to rebuild her life after her husband was murdered by Fenian (Irish) rebels. Forerunners of the IRA, these 19th century terrorists set off bombs and murdered English aristocrats and politicians, and yes, they did go after women and children as well. Ara and her young son are assigned protection, but the man assigned to protect them is the last man Ara wants anywhere near them, because she’s hiding

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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: 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: Duchess by Deception by Marie Force

Caitlyn Lynch

Feb 1, 2019
3 min

Book Review: Duchess by Deception by Marie Force

I’m going to start this review by saying that Marie Force is one of my favourite contemporary romantic suspense authors, and someone I deeply respect in the writing world. But with that said, I really, really wish she hadn’t tried her hand at historical romance because this is a hot mess. It’s got some absolute clangers in terms of historical inaccuracies and a hero who tells continued and repeated lies to the heroine and then tries to tell her it’s all for her benefit. While

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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: Never Say Duke by Erica Ridley

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 9, 2019
2 min

Book Review: Never Say Duke by Erica Ridley

For the fourth Duke of Christmas, Erica Ridley gave to me… an autistic heroine. Yep. An honest-to-goodness historical romance heroine who is very clearly on the spectrum, Virginia has trouble reading the emotions of other people unless they’re smiling or frowning. She hates crowds, loud noises, bright lights, anything sudden, and people who don’t say what they mean. She loves animals (especially Duke, her irascible and hilarious cat) and in her own way, she’s quite brilliant.

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Blog Tour and Book Review: The Duke I Once Knew by Olivia Drake

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 2, 2019
3 min

Blog Tour and Book Review: The Duke I Once Knew by Olivia Drake

MY REVIEW: Part of a charming series called the Cinderella Spinsterhood, The Duke I Once Knew tells the story of a pair of innocent teenagers forced apart by circumstances and denied the comfort even of friendship. Abigail is left behind with her family, needed to be a support to her mother after a disabling fall, while Max is swept off to London with his ducal father. Fast forward fifteen years and Abigail is trapped in an endless cycle between relatives, needed to be a supp

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Book Review: The Earl's Irresistible Challenge

Caitlyn Lynch

Jan 1, 2019
2 min

Book Review: The Earl's Irresistible Challenge

First in a new series called The Sinful Sinclairs, the three books are planned to focus on the three Sinclair siblings. Lucas, Lord Sinclair, comes first. And to be honest, I wasn’t at all sure why he was called Lord Sinful; though the heroine, Olivia, is spooked by him at first, it seems to be because of a reputation that isn’t that different to any other lord in London. Lord Sinclair doesn’t prey on virgins or the defenceless; his mistresses are experienced and know exactly

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