in this installment of Willig's Pink Carnation series, we follow Lady Charlotte Lansdowne on her quest for true love. An imaginative, naïve, bookish young lady who fully wishes for a knight in shining armor to sweep her off of her feet, Charlotte pictures herself as the heroine of her own story,...
This was my second Lauren Willig stand-alone novel and I loved it. I thought this was a very interesting story spanning many eras. The novel follows Willig's pattern of telling her story over two different time periods. The first one follows Clementine in the late 1990s-early 2000s. Clemmie i...
This is one is my favorite of the whole series. The setting moves to India but the story is just as good if a little slow in the beginning.
Not even worth writing my own words. I copied and pasted fro two others I thought fitting:The characters were very dull and uncaptivating. There is nothing in Emma to arouse any interest; she's just a society girl who is completely content with her frivolous life. Augustus, meanwhile, has the mos...
Lauren Willig is a consummate storyteller. Like fellow author Kate Morton, she has an exceptional ability to shift between the past and the present, interweaving and connecting two separate tales into one. Her "Pink Carnation" series is a continual favorite, and her stand alone novel "The Ashford...
It took some time to get in to this story, as it assumes that you know/remember a lot from the other Pink Carnation books. There wasn't a lot of intrigue, but it was a fun read, once I did get in to the flow of the story. I understand that it is hard to get into character development in a short...
I love this series. It's got romance, intrique, history, suspense, comedy....and this little novella..an insert into the series is a quick read, but totally fits in with the series, but if you didn't read any of the other books, you would still enjoy and WANT to read the rest!!! England, France...
Such a cute little novella about Turnip and Arabella's quick Christmas wedding. Poor Turnip...can't even have a proper wedding night. Darn snow storms! But alas, that is what happens when you get married in the middle of the winter. I know, because I was born December 28th in the middle of winter...
Greetings ladies and gentlemen! If you missed my review for the last book in this series, The Masque of the Black Tulip, I’ll give you a slight refresher. Our hero’s name is Shoulders because you can bet your sweet ass the width of them will be mentioned more than his actual name. Our heroine is ...
Choosing a light read is a tricky business. It's like icing on a cake - too little, and all you have is cake; too much, and you're overwhelmed with fluff and sugar. I picked up this book because I wanted to read something with no murders in it, and besides, Napoleonic spy capers with women! Fun s...
Things to love about this novel? In chapter one, it picks up with the tale of its modern-day research, Eloise Kelly, who is off to the country with the dishy Colin Selwick for a look at his archives. (Insert eyebrow waggle here.) The Black Tulip also picks up with the lives of some of the charact...