This is the fifth book in the Penneyroyal Green series, which is focused on 2 wealthy, powerful famines in a small Sussex community with a decades - long grudge match between them. Each book in this series has characters that are uniquely quirky. The female leads, especially show strength of cha...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN!!!!! Alex and Genevieve are such a cute couple!!!!There was two things I didn't like it: Harry and Genevieve and the issues with the age gap between the main characters. Harry was plain stupid (I'm sorry to break it but he really was) and the age difference between Al...
Julie Anne Long is at her best, in my opinion, when she is writing the book equivalent of a bottle episode. She has quickly become one of my favorite authors, but I do have my minor (and occasionally not minor) quibbles with her Pennyroyal Green series. I didn’t care for the first book (I feel li...
Julie Anne Long has a talent for pairing two unlikely characters who just happen to be perfect for each other. And I like that. I like it a lot.Though you know how authors have their writing quirks? All authors have them, I think, myself included. Well, as far as I can tell, the Pennyroyal Green ...
Phoebe Vale is a teacher at a girls finishing school. Shes quiet, her life revolves around her girls at the school and not glamorous at all. But shes kind and has a wicked wit. The Marquess Dryden, Julian Spenser, is an aristocrat who is cold and ruthless and surrounds himself with the best of ev...
This was by far one of the funniest historicals I've read in some time. I did find myself suddenly laughing a few times throughout the book. This was such a heartwarming story, yes it was a bit wordy and long-winded at times, but it definitely makes for better insight into the characters. At firs...
Favorite quotes:He stared. She didn’t notice. Nor did anyone else, such was the crowded ballroom and Mile’s lifelong ability, despite his considerable height, to be more scenery than seen when he chose.Perhaps one thought in geysers of clichés when one fell in love.She’d been wearing green when h...
I'm developing a sincere appreciation for this author's ability to make me like her characters, because in the beginning I sometimes don't. Violet is impetuous, determined, spoiled, and passionate. Asher, the Earl of Ardmay is arrogant, ruthless, and equally determined. He doesn't know much ab...
Every time I see or think of I Kissed an Earl, it's to the tune of Kate Perry's I Kissed a Girl. And I shan't feel bad for making the comparison.Because Violet kisses an earl. And she likes it.There wasn't any cherry chapstick, though. But a cherry did get popped... I get ahead of myself.Anyway. ...
That handsome preacher and cousin to the Eversea's we've been teased with in other Pennyroyal Green books finally experiences temptation when he meets Eve a notorious widow. Adam has always been even keeled, controlling of his emotions and an excellent pastor. His days are filled with his paris...
All I can say after reading this book is , I HAVE NEVER BEEN more JEALOUS of a female heroine book character in my LIFE!!!! The Countess /heroine in this book is actually a well written protagonist BUT , I don't think she came close to deserving the DIVINE VICAR Adam Sylvaine. I devour every sing...
Novíssimo livro da Julie Anne Long, lançado há umas duas semanas. O sétimo na série Pennyroyal Green, mas como sempre, você não precisa ter lido nenhum outro. Essa autora já é uma das minhas favoritas de todos os tempos! Vocês devem ter percebido no meu histórico de leitura.Ela é tão boa, mais tã...
Out of the three I have read in the series, this wasn't my favorite, but I did still enjoy it. The mystery was fun to try and figure out, and I thought all of the fake names were pretty great. This actually reminded me a little of a Sebastian St. Cyr book, what with the traipsing all around Londo...
Favorite quotes:Chase realized then that he’d inadvertently barked a command rather than a question. Habit of intonation. He immediately forgave himself.“She would plummet to earth and land face first in a cow pat with wings like those.” Chase was irritated. “They would need to be at least three ...
The story clipped along, and I liked the characters pretty well. However, Ian Eversea is a lot like his brother Colin (from Pennyroyal Green #1), and the characters in general were somewhat predictable. I also found myself annoyed by how much the author emphasized the main character's virginity. ...
Dazzling!Sylvie Lamoureux is the darling of the Paris ballet, renowned for her beauty and passionate dedication to her art. But when a mysterious letter sends her across the English Channel, she finds herself literally landing in the lap of one of London's most notorious men.Daring!With a face th...
SHOCKING! London's belle of the ball, Susannah Makepeace, is the last person who should suddenly be stuck in the sleepy village of Barnstable. In town, she would never have seen a man swimming naked in a pond. And she certainly would have resisted the urge to draw every single bit of him in asto...
Ruined!No one could ever accuse Rebecca Tremaine of being a proper young lady. She's wretched at embroidery, pitiful at the pianoforte, and entirely too informed about the human body, courtesy of her father's scientific journals. And now she's been compromised by a dandy she despises! When her pa...
Ensnared! Lily Masters has a gift for picking pockets and telling stories—skills that come in handy for surviving London's slums. She's proud of providing for herself and her lively young sister, Alice, and she's never been caught. Well, there's always a first time. Enticed! Gideon Cole is a br...
WANTON!A vicar's daughter unafraid to control her fate, Sabrina Fairleigh arrives at an exclusive country soiree with marriage in mind. How shocking --- and intriguing --- to discover her host is an infamous ladies' man known for his indecent (and, ah, inspiring) poetry!WICKED!They call him The L...
T. had his truck back at around three o’clock the next day. He immediately took it for an almost giddy drive around town, as if he’d just been sprung from the pokey. He stopped in at the grocery store for some real food, including sandwiches and a few packaged salads, startling all the clerks int...
Marcus said to the phalanx of soldiers lounging in front of the Eversea town house. He’d brought out a plate of seedcakes for them, and they all took one. They looked bored, as well they should. Why on earth would they think Colin might migrate to his own town house? “Good morning, Mr. Eversea.” ...
She’d risked her life for that medal, and that man had eviscerated her with just a few words. And now Jonathan tried, but failed, not to stare at the duke. The man’s heavy handsome head turned this way and that, bestowing his attention on various diners as if it were a benediction, and in short s...
He saw her leaning against the rail of the ship. Almost as though she was waiting for him. A strand of hair whipped gaily about her lips in the wind, an escapee from her coiffure the way she was an escapee from her family. He found himself rooting for the rest of her hair to escape. He was before...
FOUNTAIN STILL LOOKED untenably fresh and guileless, given that she had clearly risen well before dawn to flog the worthless serving staff into cleaning. “Good morning again, Mrs. Fountain. I would like you to retrieve my correspondence from Postlethwaite’s Emporium in tow...
Henny greeted Eve. “And then you rolled down a hill and came to a stop in a ditch. Did those women take you out into the woods and steal your reticule? I didna like the looks of the big one.”The big one being Mrs. Sneath. Henny was only partially joking. She and Mrs. Sneath had recognized somethi...
. . “HERE ARE FOUR SHILLINGS.” Olivia dropped them one at a time into the cup shared by the beggars against Madame Marceau’s wall. “I hope you will buy something hot to eat with it. Do consider going to Sussex, if you would like to work and live quietly. This should be enough for mail coach fare....