Gaelen Foley's One Night Of Sin and Celeste Bradley's Duke Most Wanted. Add to that today's purchases of Amanda Quick's Slightly Shady and Anna Campbell's Tempt The Devil. Apparently Anne Gracie and Loretta Chase have spoilt me for anyone else ... *lol*
Btw, I haven't forgotten about asking you for recs ... I just feel like I should finish the other books you lent me before hitting you up for Regency stuff ... :p I'm gonna try the Diana Wynne Jones one tomorrow. *nods*
Anne Gracie and Loretta Chase are two of my favourites. What have you read by them? A Perfect Rake was one of the books that started me as a romance reader early last year. :)
Galen Foley has written two books I've for the most part enjoyed, but her other stuff I haven't been able to finish. Celeste Bradley and Amanda Quick are kind of meh - not terrible but not great either. I did like Seduction by Amanda Quick, the next two books of hers I read had identical heroes to the Seduction guy so it all got a bit boring. As for Celeste Bradley, Duke Most Wanted is probably the worst of that trilogy, but if you couldn't stand it you shouldn't bother with the others. I'd be interested to know what you think of the Anna Campbell. The one she's really notorious for is Claiming the Courtesan (Smart Bitches review here)where there is enough non con to make people pretty damn uncomfortable. I believe Tempt the Devil is set in the same world and is about another courtesan. I'm highly curious about it but I don't think I'll like it enough to make
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Oh yay! Yep, A Perfect Rake was my first Anne Gracie, such a delight, had me chuckling away in court in front of a whole room full of lawyers. I didn't really like A Perfect Waltz so much, got a bit too dark for my liking and the hero was far too serious, all the sentiment a bit too heavyhanded. But I've got A Perfect Kiss sitting on my bookshelf and I'm making myself wait for A Perfect Stranger to arrive from Canberra before succumbing to that temptation. I can't wait to read Grace's story. God, I LOVE Anne Gracie so much!
Loretta Chase I've read Miss Wonderful --- LOVED it! --- Not Quite A Lady --- my first and surprisingly sad but sooooooo hot! --- and Lord Perfect -- which got me giggling far more than I expected --- and I'm waiting on Mr Impossible and Your Scandalous Ways and omg omg Lord Of Scoundrels which I've seen hyped so much I can't wait to read it! Completely besotted with Loretta Chase ... she totally is as close to Heyer as we can get, don't you reckon? Heyer with sex, I mean. :p
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A Perfect Stranger is my favourite after Rake - I hope you like it. I just wish she'd written more. I don't like the most recent series as much as the Perfect ones, unfortunately.
LC is rather Heyer-like, as is Julia Quinn. They both have the sly humour and the sexual tension. Lord of Scoundrels is lovely, but I think my expectations were a little too high. The others I've read are Mr Impossible - awesome - and Your Scandalous Ways - very good, but didn't push my buttons. The ones set in highly romantic, exotic locations are less likely to appeal to me (Mr I was a huge exception
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So I've now finished the Perfect series ... The Perfect Stranger was all right, I was a little too impatient with Faith even though I did appreciate the evolution of her to independence. Intellectually, I appreciated that aspect. Emotionally, it did nothing for me. And man, then I felt so awful for being annoyed at the happy ending. *lol* One part of my brain was going "Of course it has to be a happy ending, that's why you're reading it, cos you're guaranteed that!" but the other part of my brain, prolly the writer bit, was whining "Nooooooo, come on, don't save him, let it play it out as it should, don't give him the miraculous happy ending, come onnnnnnn, keep the integrity of the storyline!" *sigh* I know, that's very silly of me, I just couldn't get away from that dissatisfaction.
But omigod I ADORED The Perfect Kiss! It was so fabulously gothic but then marvellously cheekily balanced out with the ordinariness of our hero getting to know all his tenants despite trying not to get involved. That was too adorable and funny and
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Btw, I haven't forgotten about asking you for recs ... I just feel like I should finish the other books you lent me before hitting you up for Regency stuff ... :p I'm gonna try the Diana Wynne Jones one tomorrow. *nods*
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Galen Foley has written two books I've for the most part enjoyed, but her other stuff I haven't been able to finish. Celeste Bradley and Amanda Quick are kind of meh - not terrible but not great either. I did like Seduction by Amanda Quick, the next two books of hers I read had identical heroes to the Seduction guy so it all got a bit boring. As for Celeste Bradley, Duke Most Wanted is probably the worst of that trilogy, but if you couldn't stand it you shouldn't bother with the others. I'd be interested to know what you think of the Anna Campbell. The one she's really notorious for is Claiming the Courtesan (Smart Bitches review here)where there is enough non con to make people pretty damn uncomfortable. I believe Tempt the Devil is set in the same world and is about another courtesan. I'm highly curious about it but I don't think I'll like it enough to make ( ... )
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Loretta Chase I've read Miss Wonderful --- LOVED it! --- Not Quite A Lady --- my first and surprisingly sad but sooooooo hot! --- and Lord Perfect -- which got me giggling far more than I expected --- and I'm waiting on Mr Impossible and Your Scandalous Ways and omg omg Lord Of Scoundrels which I've seen hyped so much I can't wait to read it! Completely besotted with Loretta Chase ... she totally is as close to Heyer as we can get, don't you reckon? Heyer with sex, I mean. :p ( ... )
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LC is rather Heyer-like, as is Julia Quinn. They both have the sly humour and the sexual tension. Lord of Scoundrels is lovely, but I think my expectations were a little too high. The others I've read are Mr Impossible - awesome - and Your Scandalous Ways - very good, but didn't push my buttons. The ones set in highly romantic, exotic locations are less likely to appeal to me (Mr I was a huge exception ( ... )
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But omigod I ADORED The Perfect Kiss! It was so fabulously gothic but then marvellously cheekily balanced out with the ordinariness of our hero getting to know all his tenants despite trying not to get involved. That was too adorable and funny and ( ... )
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