Oh, and that Loretta Chase. Silk Is For Seduction.

( ... round and round ... )

Right. So I gave up on Villette. For now. I'll go back to it, oh yes I will, when loins are properly girded and shoulders squared and jaw gritted, etc.

Instead I gave myself permission to read Meredith Duran's latest novel. Which, you know, I've only been bleating about for several months now.

( ... all over me ... )

So random things ( Read more... )

Seduced by Virginia Henley was sourced precisely because of its genderbending trope. And oof. From Visual Bookshelf: Ugh, the style of this book was so horrifically olskool and lurid that I was utterly put off by page 45 and the start of Chapter 5. It also really offended me that the narrative combined this horrible didactic style --- several ( Read more... )

So since I was brave enough to try Meredith Duran's Raj novel, I figured I may as well get Sherry Thomas' Raj novel and have done with it. Also, it was the only one I hadn't yet read of hers. Too. Heh. I did wonder if they'd planned it, seeing as how they're friends. But no, not true.

Not Quite A Husband gave me a case of the comedown blues. Liek ( Read more... )

So Liz Carlyle.

I honestly read the books faster than I could write down my thoughts, they were that addictive. But here goes.

( ... from every sound around that rushes near ... )

Laura Kinsale's Uncertain Magic was another I borrowed off liadlaith. Started it at the bus stop on the way back and oh man oh man. It was sooooo beautiful and fascinating and genuinely terrifying and very very skilful. My first and if that's what Kinsale's like, I'm totally sold. Unfortunately I can't find her in any of my usual haunts and have just ( Read more... )

Then there was Emma Wildes' Secrets Of A Scarlet Lady, borrowed off liadlaith who had quite rightly warned me it was a silly book. Fun but silly.

It constantly irritated me. The concept was excellent, the feminist subtext almost text and very cool indeed. But gad, the writing. ( ... facedown on the pavement ... )

So I finally succumbed a few weeks --- months? ooh, last month --- back and got Meredith Duran's debut novel, The Duke Of Shadows. I'd been avoiding it like the plague cos yeah, it's set in the British Raj and even before I got back into Regency romances and discovered this fad for setting them in 'exotic locales' like Egypt or anywhere in the East ( Read more... )

Stumbled upon the newest Jennifer Ashley, Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage, the second in her MacKenzie trilogy. Oh man, so excited. Cos I quite liked Isabella when she popped up in the first book and cos, man, that first book was so brilliant in terms of characterisation and plot.

I wasn't particularly moved or impressed with this one. ( ... broken, lovelorn, on your rocks ... )