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Regency
Jill Barnett -
Bewitching : The MacLean is the
head Scottish witch who decides that Joy
the terribly inept witch is just what
Alec, who can be a real pain in the Duke
of Belmore when he wants to be,
needs!
Many hilarious examples of just
how bad at witchcraft she is later, Alec
forbids her to cast any more spells, but
she can’t help herself and he gets
terribly angry.
Alec finally realises that he
loves Joy after she runs off into a
blizzard, but it is too late because The
MacLean has decided that he is not worthy
of Joy and takes her away. Alec finally
convinces the MacLean that he loves her,
and they live happily ever
after.
A wonderful, laugh-out-loud
Regency that was very touching.
(Lissa)
Jill Barnett -
Dreaming : Letitia is so
unbelievably clumsy that you just have to
laugh even though I cried at her pain of
being desperately lonely, and so very in
love with the handsome but disreputable
Richard who thinks she is truly a
pest.
Her clumsiness gets them both
kidnapped by a ring of smugglers, she
accidentally sets the ship on fire,
shoots him, he nearly drowns trying to
save her dog, and unknowingly traps him
into marriage by way of having spent so
much time alone with him.
She truly believes he is her
knight in shining armour, and in the end,
so he is.
One of these rare books that
really sucked me into the characters and
had me laughing and crying and ignoring
the washing up to finish it.
The book follows Bewitching and
is (I think) better, but if you are going
to read them both, then they should be
read in order.
(Lissa)
Loretta Chase - Lord of
Scoundrels : Fellow readers not
so long ago I went looking for book and
only had a brief idea of what I wanted -
it had to be light and easy to read with
humour and emotional, it had to hook me
from the start and of course be
historical and I found all this in
Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrel.
Loretta's tale of 'Beauty & the
Beast' had me from the first, its a tale
which flows with just the right amount of
humour and villainy. Commencing with an
emotional prologue of our Beast's
misunderstood Mother, a Father who you
would just love to hate and our Beast's
sole destroying childhood emotionally
crippling schooling and his early
introduction to debauchery.
Loretta gives our Beast,
Sebastian, great intelligence but of
course no understand our Beauty, a ready
wit which he exercises regularly,
arrogance and a hard won knowledge that
anything has a price and of course no
apparent morals. His comment of ”Women
don't have a sense of humour, they don't
need one. The Almighty made them as a
permanent joke on men. From which one may
logically deduce that the Almighty is a
female” which our lackwited Bertie,
Beauty's brother just has to repeat to
her and sets a fire under our Beauty and
our knowledge that their at their first
meeting and some sparks will
fly.
Our Beauty Jess is highly
intelligence, has wonderful understanding
of boys and Beasts and her independent
nature and beauty ensures she is still
receiving and declining marriage
proposals even though she of a certain
age and “will be hanged if she marry and
play brood mare to a rich titled oaf”.
However her immediate problem is how to
wean Bertie away from Sebastian sorry
example whilst keeping her reputation in
tact.
You will love how Loretta brings
together our volatile couple and how she
weaves a tale involving antiques,
ruination reputations, our hero being
shot (of course Jess is the one handling
the firearm) and his nerves on their
wedding night and Jess's subsequent
seduction of Sebastian and her discovery
of his illegitimate child and how Jess
brings together the tortured Father and
Son and their triumph over the inept
blackmailer.
So curl up in your most
comfortable chair, disconnect your phone,
lockup the husband/kids/animals so that
you can have a uninterrupted read. As I
know once you start to read Loretta's
tale you won't be able to bring myself to
put it down.
(Lynnette)
Jo Goodman - Let Me Be
The One :
North, South, East and
West – Ladies, meet the Compass Club!!!
Jo Goodman does a fabulous job with her
first book in a stunning new Regency
series, The Compass Club. Amid the
frivolity of a weekend in the country,
the Earl of Northam meets the mysterious
Libby Penrose who holds a dark secret
apart from being the cat burglar
terrorising the Ton this summer. Madcap
friends will make you tear with laughter
– watch out for South!! And stay tuned
because the second book in this series,
Everything I Ever Wanted, coming in March
is his story.
I couldn’t put this down and hated every
interruption!! You’ll love these guys and Libby
is just perfect!
(Eleanor)
Eloisa James - Potent
Pleasures : A lovely Regency
novel by a wonderful new author. James’s
first book in her Pleasures series is
full of scandal, lost virtue, plunging
necklines and dishy Heroes.
Charlotte begins her first
Season by unceremoniously loosing her
virginity at a Cyprian’s Ball before she
is out, to … apparently… a very handsome
footman!
Three years later Charlotte has
become a reigning beauty as well as an
accomplished painter and catches the eye
of her dashing footman, who turns out to
be the Earl of Sheffield and Downes. But
Alex doesn’t remember Charlotte at all,
and to make it more interesting, Alex
thinks that Charlotte met his identical
twin brother Patrick!!
James’s has a wonderful command
for the Regency period, I was not
disappointed and gulped the second book
and have started the third. These books
are full of wonderful Regency families,
passionate heroines and deliciously
tortured heroes. There is love, laughter,
damp petticoats and wonderful, wonderful
scandals!!!
If you like Stephanie Lauren’s
Cynster series and Georgette Heyer’s
romances, here’s a perfect combination of
both.
(Eleanor)
Katie MacAlister - Noble
Intentions : A truly joyful Regency romp
featuring the slightly clumsy Gillian,
who falls for the supposed wife-murderer,
Noble the Black Earl at first sight. They
marry a few days later and spend the rest
of the book going from one funny scene to
another trying to protect each other from
the rather inept murderer while (of
course) he falls in love with
her.
There are many scenes where very
clever plays on words made me chuckle and
others like the scene where Gillian finds
her Lord of Kisses tied up naked on his
ex-mistresses bed with a broken man part
set of a round of giggles that lasted for
4 pages. I was actually crying with
laughter over the scene with the villain
Earl who mistakenly believes Gillian’s
butler’s name to be crotch and the
confusion that ensues when he tries to
get her butler to stop her dogs sniffing
his crotch………
Next time you are in, have a
read of the first page of this book. If
you crack a smile, then buy the book,
because I guarantee that you will laugh
out loud and be unable to put it down
because you just have to find out what
she does and says next!
Another rare all-night read I
thoroughly enjoyed.
(Lissa)
Three Nights - Debra
Mullins : To honour her father’s
gambling debt, Aveline agrees to spend
three nights with Lucien DuFeron, and
submit to his every desire. The time goes
too quickly for both, but when the debt
has been paid, Lucien goes back to London
where he is kidnapped a few days later
and sold onto a ship.
Five years later, a very angry
Lucien returns for revenge, but instead
goes searching for the woman he has not
been able to forget. An equally angry
Aveline has a surprise for him, but
because he thinks she betrayed him and he
hurt her terribly, their marriage of
convenience is not happy, but they
eventually find the truth and their
love.
This is an excellent story, fast
moving with well developed characters,
more than the usual amount of very well
written intimate moments, and a villain
that you may not guess.
(Lissa)
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