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Mercy’s Embrace: Elizabeth Elliot’s Story, Book 2: So Lively A Chase, by Laura Hile – A Review & Giveaway

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on 19 May 2012 | 61 Comments »

Review by Christina Boyd Author Laura Hile’s So Lively a Chase, Book 2, in her lovely Mercy’s Embrace trilogy, continues with Miss Elizabeth Elliot struggling to manage her feckless, frivolous father and dwindling finances, all the while contriving to make a most propitious match for herself.  In this follow-up to Jane Austen’s Persuasion, our unlikely [...]

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The World of Downton Abbey, by Jessica Fellowes – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Edwardian Era Book Reviews, tagged , , , , on 14 March 2012 | 14 Comments »

Season two of Downton Abbey has concluded and we are left in limbo until it returns next Fall in the UK and January 2013 in the US. *deep sigh* For those like myself, who have watched and re-watched every blessed minute, yet, just can’t get enough of the award winning ITV/PBS television mini-series and are [...]

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The Journey, by Jan Hahn – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , on 29 February 2012 | 10 Comments »

Reviewed by Christina Boyd At last, at last.  It’s arrived at last.  Fans of Jan Hahn, author of An Arranged Marriage, winner of 2011 Best Indie Book award by Austenprose, have been all anticipation for the release of The Journey. This Pride & Prejudice twist begins shortly after the Netherfield Ball. After Miss Elizabeth Bennet [...]

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Pistols for Two, by Georgette Heyer – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged , , , , on 25 February 2012 | 14 Comments »

Guest review by Laura A. Wallace Pistols for Two is a collection of eleven short stories first published in 1960.  Throughout her writing career, Heyer published her novels in serial form in various periodicals, and published short stories in them as well.  This is the only collection published as a book; otherwise her short stories [...]

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Captain Wentworth Home from the Sea: A Re-imagining of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, by Mary Lydon Simonsen – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Sequels Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on 22 February 2012 | 3 Comments »

Guest review by Lucy Warriner If your lost love returned with no recollection of the dispute that separated you, how would you react? If you had a second chance at happiness with him, would you divulge your tumultuous past? Anne Elliot faces these questions in Captain Wentworth Home from the Sea, Mary Lydon Simonsen’s new [...]

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Compulsively Mr. Darcy, by Nina Benneton – A Review

Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , on 11 February 2012 | 13 Comments »

Guest review by Kimberly Denny-Ryder I’ve often wondered what modern day psychiatric medicine would say about some of my favorite literary characters.  Are they bi-polar?  Do they suffer from ADHD, depression, or a form of autism?  Author Nina Benneton explores what a modern day Darcy would be like, suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder in her [...]

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