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Historical Romance Book Reviews
Please note that I do not review JAFF novels as a general rule, nor am I accepting review requests at this time.
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The Earl Who Sees Her Beauty by Marguerite Kaye
This intriguing Victorian novel isn’t so much a grumpy + sunshine pairing as a grumpy + grumpy. Disillusioned after leaving the army...
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A Fiancee's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman
This is the fourth in a late-Victorian era cozy mystery series centred on Frances, widowed Countess of Harleigh. I didn’t realise it was...
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The Sign of Death by Callie Hutton
Having read A Study in Murder, the first book in this series, and quite liked it, I was keen to see what Lady Amy Lovell and her sort-of...
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The Deception of Harriet Fleet by Helen Scarlett
Harriet Fleet is desperate. Otherwise, on arrival at Teesbank Hall, discovering none of the locals will set foot on the property and her...
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The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan
It would be an easy trap to fall into, when writing about people of colour in Victorian England, to focus on the struggles they must have...
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The Duke is Wicked by Tracy Sumner
This is the third book in the League of Lords series about aristocrats (mostly aristocrats) with paranormal abilities in the Victorian...
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Bewitched By The Bluestocking by Jillian Eaton
American sisters Joanna and Evie Thorncroft are in London to search for a valuable ring stolen from them, not only the one thing which...
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His Unlikely Duchess by Amanda McCabe
Lily Wilkins is a ‘dollar princess’, a daughter of a wealthy American known as the Coal King, brought to London by her mother in order...
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A Princess By Christmas by Julia London
This is the third book in this series, and if you haven’t read the previous two, I absolutely do not recommend that you pick this one up...
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All Scot and Bothered by Kerrigan Byrne
I honestly had a massive problem with the hero of this story, because he was a sanctimonious prig who wanted to believe the worst of...
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A Royal Kiss and Tell by Julia London
If you missed the first in this series, (The Princess Plan), the basic gist is that Sebastian, Crown Prince of Alucia, fell for and...
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A Study In Murder by Callie Hutton
In the late Victorian era, murder mystery novels were all the rage. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s were the most popular of all, and it was...
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Seduce Me With Sapphires by Jane Feather
In the early years of the 20th century, the suffragette movement was in full swing in London, and Fenella, the heroine of this story, is...
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Once A Fallen Lady by Eve Pendle
Once upon a time, Lydia Taylor was a respectable young woman who aspired to marry an earl. That was a long time ago, though, and the...
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Lilian and the Irresistible Duke by Virginia Heath
While this is the fourth in a multi-author miniseries about a Victorian family, you don’t need to have read the other three to follow the...
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The Woman in the Veil by Laura Joh Rowland
Sent to photograph a murder scene for the newspaper she works for, Sarah Bain is utterly shocked when the victim turns out to be not...
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Miss Amelia's Mistletoe Marquess by Jenni Fletcher
A charming and light-hearted Victorian romance, the story begins with Miss Amelia Fairclough finding herself in need of somewhere to...
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Anyone But A Duke by Betina Krahn
I’ve absolutely loved this series about the Bumgarten ‘dollar princesses’, four American sisters making their way and meeting their...
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Blog Tour and Book Review: The Princess Plan by Julia London
Princes have pomp and glory—not murdered secretaries and crushes on commoners Nothing gets London's high society's tongues wagging like a...
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An American Duchess by Caroline Fyffe
While An American Duchess purports to be a standalone novel, or possibly the first in a new series, it’s actually the second book about...
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