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The Garden Intrigue, by Lauren Willig – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 15 February 2012 | 7 Comments »

Guest review by Jeffrey Ward Dear readers and fans I bring good news Lauren Willig has shown her muse In Pink Carnation number nine The Garden Intrigue, most divine Eloise Kelly is in England researching her dissertation on English espionage during the Napoleonic Wars; especially a shadowy figure known only as the Pink Carnation. Eloise’s [...]

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Tides of War, by Stella Tillyard – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgian Era Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 23 October 2011 | 9 Comments »

Guest review by Br. Paul Byrd, OP ‘What is it that you read now?’ Mrs. Cobbold gestured to the volume on Harriet’s lap. ‘Another stupid book.’ Harriet put it down. ‘First Impressions is its title; and by A Lady, as usual.’ ‘It does not divert you?’ ‘Divert me, Aunt! I have no wish to be [...]

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The Twelfth Enchantment: A Novel, by David Liss – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 28 August 2011 | 10 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder of Reflections of a Book Addict Historical fiction? Check.  Magic?  Check.  Awesome heroine?  Check.   Lord Byron?!  Check!  Did you ever imagine those four items to be in the same novel together?  I sure didn’t, so I was in for a definite surprise when I started reading The Twelfth Enchantment by [...]

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Shades of Milk and Honey, by Mary Robinette Kowal – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 5 June 2011 | 3 Comments »

Guest review by Shelley DeWees – The Uprising “Of his younger daughter, Melody, he had no concerns, for she had a face made for fortune.  His older daughter, Jane, made up for her deficit of beauty with rare taste and talent in the womanly arts.  Her skill with glamour, music, and painting was surpassed by [...]

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The Orchid Affair: A Novel, by Lauren Willig – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 24 January 2011 | 10 Comments »

It is always a very special day when a new Pink Carnation novel is released. I had marked my calendar on January 20th with a big red X in anticipation. Lauren Willig is one the few authors that I just go nuts over. (How unprofessional to gush like a schoolgirl. I will be kind on [...]

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The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas, by Lauren Willig – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 15 November 2010 | 18 Comments »

In her six previous novels in the bestselling Pink Carnation series, Lauren Willig has furnished us with an assortment of dashing heroes thwarting Napoleonic spies while romancing clever heroines. There are your alpha heroes and your beta heroes, but none qualify as a vegetable hero except Reginald “Turnip” Fitzhugh! He is long on looks and [...]

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For the King, by Catherine Delors – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 7 August 2010 | 9 Comments »

Summer is upon us and I am taking a bold move and jumping ship from my usual fare of Jane Austen and her offspring to cross the channel into France during the Napoleonic Wars with For the King, a detective thriller set in post-Revolutionary Paris steeped in politics and revenge. Firstly, this book has an [...]

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The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, by Lauren Willig – A Review

Posted in Regency Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 14 February 2010 | 13 Comments »

A nineteenth-century exotic locale, a handsome officer and a feisty heroine make for archetypical romantic fare, but Lauren Willig’s new novel The Betrayal of the Blood Lily is anything BUT a conventional bodice ripper embellished with historical detail. In her sixth novel in her “Pink Carnation” series, Willig exhibits once again that she is an [...]

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