After having recently read the Governess Affair (and loved it!) I was truly looking forward to a full sized novel by same author. I do have to say that this one left me slightly disappointed. It was extremely slow in between short blasts of activity which is what kept me going...but just barely...
OMGOMGOMG I loved this novella. I loved the biting yet flirtatious wit the two main characters threw at each other. I loved the real romance between the heroine and hero. I loved the inclusion of sexual consent. I loved the climax between the hero and the villain. I could probably go for pages an...
Another excellent book by Courtney Milan. She serves up her heroines in the smart and sassy range; each of her romances has a feminist slant. Her women are not to be trifled with, and they will keep the men on their toes. Which requires the men to be thinking 3-dimensional characters as well, ...
Another excellent historical romance from CM! I am going to have such withdrawal when I finish her books. Her characters are amazing, they defy tropes constantly. Ash was an alpha male who cared about Margaret's feelings and refused to take kisses from her. Margaret wasn't a virgin, she took what...
An impressive story. I notice that Courtney Milan doesn't follow the typical formula for a romance. Her characters have far more depth, idiosyncrasies and complex motivations. Although, I'm not sure I as much understood Turner's need for revenge, but it still somehow fit. The characters don't...
The emotional upheaval...Fantastically written, unlike any other historical romance I've read. Very real and I don't mean that there was a lot of historical accuracy but that the characters and their hopes and fear were all quite empathetic. I've gone through the whole of the human emotional spec...
This was a sweet, clever little novella. So much packed into this heart wrenching, sensitively executed short story.Lydia Charingford at the tender age of 15 has been diagnosed as being pregnant by a narrow minded, unsympathetic Doctor who advises her parents to have her put away as she is ruined...
A very solid 4 stars. Not perfect, but Milan does not perfect really well.Milan definitely is tackling different tropes in this series. In this one, the lead characters, especially the male character, is not readily likable. Far from it. Jonas makes you want to throw things at him. Lydia, which w...
I have been looking forward to reading this since I started The Duchess War and it was everything I hoped for. Violet is so clever, funny and self deprecating I have to admit she reminds me a lot of myself. Plus she is so formidable and terribly strong, she is by far one of the best heroines I ha...
I've really enjoyed this series and maybe I had crazy high expectations on this one bc I expected more in terms of the actual scientific and social advances or rather expected it much sooner in the book. I felt a lot of the inner workings of both MCs minds tho needed to explain their actions and...
Proof By Seduction is my least favourite Courtney Milan book so far. However, given how much I adore all the others, this merely means it's only quite good.Jenny Keeble has for years been supporting herself by playing Madame Esmerelda, a fortune-teller. One of her clients is Ned Carhart, a young ...
I probably need to acknowledge at this point that if Courtney Milan is writing it them I'm going to be reading it. It's a romance, sure, with all the lovey-doviness and faux-conflict you'll find in any romance. (Seriously, folks, it's called communication. It solves many problems.) But this parti...
Antagonist hopes to ruin the damsel who refused him. Hero steps in to save the lady who arguably could save herself. Milan not only recycles this plot from a previous book, but a previous book in the same series. Ouch.This was okay. Free is clever. The hero talks a lot about being a scoundrel. Th...
Had heard this was Ms. Milan's weakest effort as an author, and now I see why. It was just sort of meh, mostly because it was never really clear why exactly it was sooooo important for Ned to maintain his control. I know they didn't have words back then for conditions like depression and bipolar,...
This is a really fun novella by Milan. It only took me a couple of hours to read, and was the perfect way to spend a quiet evening.I loved the heroine, Ginny. She was strong, sensible, but also passionate and caring. She wasn't brash and in-your-face. Instead, she was a full-developed, honest dep...
Three stores set in the same place, each about 40 years apart. I'm not familiar with Carolyn Jewel, but have enjoyed other books by Thomas and Milan. I liked how the stories were interconnected, though that worked far better with the first and second than with the second and third (I feel like Mi...
Not my favorite of Milan's novellas, but still a quality story brought down to 100 pages. Once again the characters have flaws - especially the hero who realizes that he's been lying to the heroine all this time. Their realizations about their own relationship were accompanied by a sub-plot inv...
BIRTHDAY GIFT is a very short vignette found on Milan's website that tells of an incident at Eton between Richard Dalrymple and Smite Turner. Readers of UNVEILED will recall that Richard and Smite were once friends. This short vignette gives insight into their friendship. This story is pure ex...
OLIVER SAID LATER that night. “We haven’t had much time to talk, but—” Free yawned. It was not quite by design, that yawn. She was tired. After the guests had left, she’d stayed up even later composing changes to her article the next day. Oliver had sent one of his servants off to the telegraph o...
As soon as he heard himself and realized that it sounded like an invitation to tryst with him, rather than an offer to spend her life with him. She straightened, pulling away from him. “Rose.” He reached for her. She brushed his hand away. “Don’t. Please don’t.” “Rose. I’m sorry. It was a joke.” ...
TINA Blake is messing with me. I’m convinced of it. He lets me in and disappears into the shower. I can hear the water running in bursts, can imagine him under the stream of the showerhead all too well. Glistening muscles come to mind: pecs, firm and rounded; water sliding down a well-formed ches...
She’d resigned herself to that fact. It didn’t matter that Judith ushered her into a front salon as if she were regular company. The walls of the luxurious room were covered in a white-and-gold damask silk. The table Daisy sat at was laden with goodies: biscuits, sandwiche...
The couch is surprisingly comfortable. It’s the fucking alcohol that won’t let me sleep. That, and Tina’s question. What do I want? A million things I’m never going to have. But this one? The one I asked for? That, I can imag...
Instead, he led her toward the heart of town, and finally to the Royal Western Hotel. The walk there wasn’t too long, but a sleepless night spent in a cold room without supper or breakfast had robbed Miranda of most of her strength.The building was a newly constructed spectacle of modern architec...
He looked precisely the sort of man she would have imagined as the Wolf of Clermont a month ago—tall and muscular, eyes set close together, neck disappearing into broad shoulders.“Miss Barton?” he asked.Serena stood, folding the list of housing advertisements that she’d been perusing.“I’m to show...
Seven Wicked Nights Other Books by Carolyn Historical Romance The Sinclair Sisters Series Lord Ruin, Book 1 A Notorious Ruin, Book 2 Reforming the Scoundrels Series Not Wicked Enough Not Proper Enough Other Historical Romance In The Duke’s Arms from Anthology Christmas In The Duke’s Arms (...
Lavinia Spencer sat, the daily ledger opened on the desk in front of her, and waited for the moment when the day would end and she could officially remove her five pennies from the take. Every day since summer, she’d set aside a coin or five from her family’s earnings. She’d saved the largesse in...