Book Review: Barbarous by Minerva Spencer
After reading Barbarous, I feel as though I need a cup of tea and a lie down. It’s an absolutely rollicking adventure of a historical romance, complete with dastardly relatives, pirates, old blood feuds, desperate secrets and more excitement than any gently bred English lady would have been able to cope with in the early 19th century without taking to her bed in a fit of the vapours. Our heroine Daphne is a widow with a secret - her twin sons didn’t belong to her husband, bu