This book is showered with good reviews but sadly this review is not going to be one of them. There is Miss Minerva Highwood, who is a spinster, a blue-stocking, who sticks her face in her book even when she walks. I may say, she is adorable and funny and charming but is too darn inconsistent. Up...
This novel was an utterly delightful, spine tinglingly romantic, witty, and 'laugh out loud' funny read.In the first book of this series, A Night to Surrender, Colin Sandhurst comes over...at least to me... as a rather good natured, fickle, prat, and Minerva Highwood a narrow minded, plain man ha...
Para todas as garotas que caminham e leem ao mesmo tempo (homenagem da autora)Siete Días de Locura (título original A Week to Be Wicked) é o segundo livro da série Spindle Cove. O que dizer desse livro: Maravilhoso, simples assim. Um romance com ingredientes semelhantes de outro livro igualmente ...
Miss Finch is the ultimate heroine in the Regency era. She has found a new way for Spindle Cove aka Spinsters' Cove to survive the economy brought on by England's war. She caters to the women in the ton who are overlooked. Or, misdiagnosed for ailments and issues that too often subject them to ...
Lovely.Really enjoyed it and am so happy to have found another regency-writing author with a writing style that fits me so well. There was lots of humor, awkwardness, solid romance and the real went hand in hand with the absurd quite nicely. Miss Dare's writing is intriguing and fresh and her spr...
Susanna Finch is odd. With her tall figure and red hair, her ability to handle guns better than most men, and her unladylike interest in herbs and medicine, she just doesn’t fit in. But instead of shrinking into corners, she has created her own niche in the tiny town Spindle Cove. She has created...
The beginning of a trilogy about the three remaining members of the Stud Club - scandalous rake Julian Bellamy, scarred war hero Lord Ashworth Rhys St Maur and the enigmatic Duke of Morland, Spencer DuMarque - and what happens after their founder Leo Chatwick is killed one night in an alley in Wh...
Loved this book.Spencer is a young Duke but he is so rigid. Amelia is counting down the days until her and her family can leave London for the country. She doesn't care about the Season.But due to the carelessness of her brother, she may lose her country home. The brother has gambling debts to ...
I rate this book 3. I would have given it a 4 but the heroine's blatant blindness and devotion to the wrong man just brought it down for me. I get it, Spencer seems more devoted to his horses but actions speak louder. Despite his words, he was a romantic and I felt sympathetic towards him. Despit...
I truly enjoyed this book. You root for Kate to get the fairytale the entire time not knowing how it will play out. Love or family and how could she have both. I feel like she was my friend. However, not so much with Thorne. I wanted to be swept away by this mysterious man but still felt arm leng...
Stars. Public Library 8/2/14. With this series I'm at the whim of availability so I'm reading the series out of order and not in my preferred format. I fist met Corporal Thorne and Miss Kate Taylor in "A Night to Surrender" but since I haven't read "A Week to Be Wicked" I don't know what has happ...
I liked the girl but have a problem with books that end livelong romances in a week. There was lots of cursing and tupping and all my favorite things. The plot was super far fetched (i mean a Duke with a barmaid who is supposed to be socially acceptable in one week). I did really like the protago...
This is my first Tessa Dare book and I look forward to reading more from this author. This story was light, funny, sexy and quite nice. Izzy the heroine inherits a castle and upon her arrival to claim the castle she was greeted by Ransom, the original owner who refuses to leave. They both must...
The first half of the book is a chore to read with the h being so single-minded in her pursuit of the om that I wanted to shake some sense into her. Besides looking scheming and wanton, she also didn't own up to what really happened before the wedding and let the H take the blame. Her behavior af...
Writing: 3Story: 3Satisfaction: 4More of a 3.5 than a solid 4 but still an entertaining read.Lucy decides to seduce her crush of the last 9 years before he can propose to another. Unfortunately, having been unable to make her ton debut and lacking any skills in seduction, she decides to practice ...
This is a novel in two distinct acts. Normally i hate that shit. And I allllmost did here, and then NOPE IT IS AWESOME. The second act takes this from a delightful, frothy trifle to a complex, rich layer cake drenched in dark chocolate. Heady, sinful, yet not overwhelming. Also acts had me fannin...
In December of 1813, the officers’ ball had a profound effect on Spindle Cove’s economy. Seeing as how the village was mostly women, certain commodities ran scarce. Hairpins, for one. Ribbons, for another. Curling papers came at a premium. And corners. Corners were the scarcest thing of all. Beca...
Whenever you have a series where characters present in the beginning books have their own book later on, there's always a bit of apprehension and fear involved. Sometimes it's whether the characters gets the romance they deserve.In other cases, like Three Nights with a Scoundrel, you wonder how t...
This 3 book series featured 3 exceedingly different males which made each book a different kind of read. Book 1 was my favorite because it has so much humor in it. Book 2 had a tragic hero. But Three Nights with a Scoundrel had the character who was the most unlikeable in all the books. Jere...
After reading the Spindle Cove series I had high expectations for her books. I bought the Stud Club trilogy expecting more of the humor from the previous series but was extremely disappointed with the first two books. I found myself reading them just because I hate not finishing up a book. There ...
This is the second book of the Stud Club, kudos to Ms. Tessa, it is quite hard to weave a story for three special men and their lady love, let alone to come up with a sequel that is with a different setting. As may readers or "darelings" said so, this book shows us the "other side" of Ashworth; w...
This is now one of my all time favourite series - and I haven't even read the third yet!Rhys is a huge, hulking man, who has spent the last twelve years trying to die in battle. He considers his good luck a curse. The reasons for his death wish are many, but stem from a fight with his abusive fa...
not recommended soooo boring, they go on and on and on talking and painting in the ship, i really don't get any chemistry between gray & sophia. i don't feel the seduction in their conversation. confused yes... how people can attract each other if they always argue, and don't know what make them ...
Omg I loved this book in a total absofreakinglutely way. Seriously. Everybody kept telling me that the first one in the series was so much better than the second but NO! This one is epic. I have to admit I have a soft spor for romance at sea so it intrigued me since the very first page. And then ...
Sophia Hathaway, flees her life in society and escapes frm what would be a loveless marriage. So she goes aboard the ship "Aphrodite" and gains passage from 'Gray (Benedict Grayson) who is the owner and his brother is the captain. Sopia is planning on being a governess and plans on having a life ...
4.50 Stars Regency/Historical Romance!This book is a RITA Award Nominee for Best Regency Historical Romance (2010) and it is well deserved. It narrates a story of a beautiful historical romance with blissfully realistic depictions of a sea voyage full of crews and workings of a ship during the re...
The Scandalous, Dissolute, No-Good Mr. Wright was previously published in the indie anthology Three Weddings And A Murder back in 2011, and it's now available as a separate short story. I'm not sure if there are any significant revisions in this particular edition, though, as while I'm confident ...
This was Tessa Dare's first book and it was a little different from your typical Regency romance. The H and H have been separated for four years because he went to fight Napoleon. Now he has returned a changed man and doesn't think he's worthy of her. She has to prove to him that they are still p...
Summary: Cecily and Luke, childhood sweethearts, are reunited at a country house party. Luke has been at war for the past four years and has returned home a different man, determined to push Cecily away for her own good. However, the hunt for the mythical Werestag, a local legend about a half-m...
It was cute for a novella. The romance was adorable and pretty decently paced considering it's a shorter story. I had some issues with Luke, he was way too inconsistent for me at times. But I enjoyed Cecily, she was definitely more patient than I would be with him.I wish there was more of Port...
I'm disappointed... This series started so well, but with each book the rating went down one star... :(I was so curious to read Toby's story... but it just didn't live up to the expectations!Toby was really immature. I couldn't get why he didn't want to do anything with his life! He had a wonderf...
Setelah merasa kasihan sama Toby karena ditinggal tunangannya, akhirnya he found Isabel, his love. Walaupun awalnya pernikahan mereka didasari ketertarikan fisik dan kepentingan pribadi masing2, tetapi pada akhirnya masing2 ga sadar mau berkorban untuk pasangannya. Dimana Toby mau berkiprah di po...
The third book in this trilogy was my least favourite. The characters weren't as relatable as in the earlier books, and I was much more excited to get glimpses of Lucy & Jeremy and Sophia & Gray than I was in reading about Isabel and Toby. I think this might have been because the writing was more...
An above-average Regency Romance read, but a bit of a let-down following the stellar Romancing the Duke. Maybe Say Yes to the Marquess just isn't my brand of catnip, but I didn't have as much fun as I did with the first in the Castles Ever After series. That said, there's a lot to like. It tick...