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Review: A Winter by the Sea (On Devonshire Shores #2) by Julie Klassen
I featured this book when the cover reveal came out and since then I have been so excited to read this one! I read the first book in the series last year and really enjoyed it and couldn’t wait for the next installment in the series. Not to mention I am a big fan of Julie Klassen so naturally I had this one on my radar for months prior to its release! And honestly how could you not get excited about this book when you see the cover??? The Cover is stunning and I just knew it would be a good that would grab my attention! Julia Klassen is a…
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Interview: Cyanide and Sensibility (Jane Austen Tea Society Mystery #3) by Katie Oliver
Who doesn’t love Jane Austen? She wrote such classic romances and even today, readers can still relate to her stories and characters! I mean look at the 1990s classic movie, Clueless. While it had a modern twist, the Austen story of Emma shines through. Clearly Austen is a classic for a reason! This is one of the reasons that I love reading Jane Austen reimagining stories! This particular series takes both the Austen characters/stories and the author herself and make them into a mystery series! I loved the idea of this series. Here the author takes Austen and her novels and give them a modern twist and then she throws…
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Book Blast: A Brilliant Match (The Earl’s Sisters #1) by Jennie Goutet
I took a bit of a break from all my Regency romances this fall in favor of some spooky books for September and October! But now that things are becoming less spooky and more Merry, I am ready to pick up some fun Regency romances again and this one sounds like it’s going to be right up my alley! This particular author is new to me but it sounds like she has written a number of Regency romances but from a smaller publisher and it looks like she has quite a fan base established and I am super excited to share more about this upcoming series with you guys today!…
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Review: A Class Inherited (A Matter of Class #6) by Susie Murphy
The last few months have been REALLY challenging for me. I started a new job with a lot more responsibility and I have barely had time to sit down and collect my thoughts let alone read. I have been reading a lot of quick historical romances, especially throughout the summer and early fall. But let’s be real—the late Sumer and early fall are a nightmare for school administrators and teachers. So while I have been trying to find time to read here and there, I haven’t found a lot of time to share reviews on all the books I read but I have been staring reviews on the books I…
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Review: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord by Celeste Connally
I am always on the look out for new historical fiction novels—it’s my favorite genre to read. I love history and any combo or history, romance, mystery, or standard historical fiction, is usually right up my alley. Like most genres, it’s saturated with new books on a regular basis. All promising to be ‘new and different’ but when you crack open the book it’s often ‘oh this again’. But that is one of the reasons I love the genre so much. I don’t always need ‘hot new different’ reads, sometimes I just need a good solid historical fiction novel (or any combo of historical fiction and it’s sub genres). How…
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Review: Jane Austen and the Final Mystery (The Jane Austen Mystery Series #15) by Stephanie Barron
There is noting like coming into a series on the last book. I have seen many of the Jane Austen mystery books around the blog-o-sphere over the years and for whatever reason, I just didn’t connect that they were all part of a series. For example, I picked up Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas at a book store one day and then I saw Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron on a bunch of blogs when it came out so I immediately added to me TBR. But I just didn’t connect that those books were all part of this fun little Jane Austen mystery series until l…
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Review: Garden of Midnights by Hannah Linder
I have been on a big historical romance kick lately! There is just something about a good historical romance that I just cannot pass up! Although sometimes the plot is lacking in sustenance and heavy on feelings but I am ok with that—I love getting a guaranteed happily ever after! I have read Hannah Linder before and thought she wrote some solid historical romances that ran more on the clean/sweet type and I was ready to make the switch from historical bodice ripper to historical romance with substance. Not to mention it’s a GOTHIC ROMANCE! If there is ever a way to get my attention it’s this! I love Gothic…
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Micro Review: The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain
Author Suzanne Allain is a hot new historical fiction author who has gained quite a bit of notoriety with her first book, Mr Malcom’s List, which debuted back in 2020. If you are a Bridgerton fan or simply love an Austen style romance with a modern twist, then I think you will enjoy Allain. I have her latest book, The Ladies Rewrite the Rules, already loaded up on my iPad and am actively reading it right now! I have been on a huge historical romance kick and I was eager to dive into this one! While this book might not be out yet on bookshelves, I was lucky enough to…
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Cover Reveal: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner
The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and facing the future. In 1955, Vivien Lowry is at a crossroads in life. Her latest play, the only female-authored play on the London stage that season, has opened in the West End to rapturous applause from the audience. The reviewers, however, are not as impressed as the playgoers and their savage notices not only shut down the play but ruin Vivien’s last chance for theatrical success. With her future in London not looking bright, at the suggestion of her friend, Peggy Guggenheim, Vivien takes a…
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Special Feature: A Beautiful Rival by Gill Paul
I first discovered Gill Paul a few years ago when I had absolute cover lust over Another Woman’s Husband. I saw it in a bookstore and couldn’t pass it up, and from then on I was hooked on her writing style. Not to mention she always picks interesting women with stories that are often overlooked or just not what one would consider ‘mainstream’ in the historical fiction world. She continues this theme of unsung women in history with her latest novel, A Beautiful Rival, which follows the well known feud between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. I read a book earlier this year about Estée Lauder and I was intrigued…