I don't even know how to begin with this one. The stupidity made my brain seep out of my ears. The characters' immaturity made me seriously consider throwing my ereader at the field stone chimney in my living room. I wish I had a bottomless pit in my backyard to chuck this badly-conceived, idiotic, repetitive, anti-climactic, boring piece of crap.



Pitch A Bad Regency. Save a Persian.

I wasn't too keen on the Mr. & Mrs. Smith premise tease because, well, it seemed cheap and tricksy.



But then ima More...

Adrian Galloway, Lord Smythe, and Sophia, Lady Smythe have been married for five years. Their marriage has been one of convenience between two titled families. Since the first day as husband and wife they've been working for the government. As spies. Without the other's knowledge. Adrian, agent Wolf and Sophia, agent Saint. With Bonaparte's surrender their services as spies for the Foreign Office are no longer needed. But when the prime minister, Lord Liverpool's half-brother is murdered, he ask More...

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Oh, wow, wow, WOW!
I pacing back and forth to give this 4, 4 1/2 or 5 stars. But, because I really enjoy it 'till the end, I decide to give Lord and Lady Spy a lovely 5 stars! =)

Lord and Lady Spy is story about 2 retired agent who don't want retire at all! Agent Saint and Agent Wolf, both are capable agents of Barbican Group (maybe its like English Secret Service?). Then, they must accept the fact when their leader told them to retire and back to t More...

4 ½ stars – Historical/Regency Romance

I’d never read anything by this author previously, but the premise and racy cover had me very intrigued indeed. I mean a Regency Mr. and Mrs. Smith?! I couldn’t wait!

I’m happy to report that this lived up to my expectations. It’s an entertaining, sexy, adventurous spy romp with a dynamic H/H and an energetic mix of fun, action, drama, snappy dialogue, witty banter, and emotional, steamy romance.

Lord and Lady Smythe might be married, but years of secrets, li More...

A very fun, fast pace adventure. This was the historical romance version of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The premise matched and even the names are similar. I even imagined the main characters as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (the descriptions even matched). I really enjoyed this book. It was fun and engaging and the romance (or rekindling of a relationship) was believable. This book was almost a blatant retelling of that movie, with a different setting and in a different time and that was alway More...

Review originally posted at Ramblings From This Chick

I can't even begin to formulate into words how much I loved this book. This is definitely hands-down my favorite historical that I've read this year. I just couldn't put this book down. From page one to the last page, it's packed with action, romance, and lots of steamy smex scenes.

I experienced so many different emotions reading this book. Not only did it get me all hot and bothered, but it also brought tears to my eyes more than once. It isn More...

After having so much fun reading When You Give a Duke a Diamond, I decided to read this one also by Ms. Galen. It’s been languishing away in my Kindle library for a while so I thought it deserved some attention as well. It’s one of the sillier regency I’ve read, but I still enjoyed it a lot.

Unbeknownst to one another, Adrian and Sophia are both spies for the Foreign Office. When Napoleon was defeated, they found themselves dismissed from the Barbican group – the prominent spy group under Lord M More...

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Sublime! Sexy! Sensual! Adrenalin Packed! LORD AND LADY SPY is a high octane emotional explosive read all wrapped in a saucy and spicy Regency with two of the noblest spies that sets off enough sparks to set the pages on fire.


It really wrenches a devoted spies heart when you have devoted your life and soul for country and king only to be placed on early retirement at the end of a Napoleonic war.

Lady Sophia Smythe is everything a proper, dowdy Regency wife should be. No one would ever bel More...

This book was such a disappointment to me. The plot could have been really wonderful--I would love to read a good book about a couple driven apart by multiple miscarriages and her unwillingness to put herself through that again. I'm sure that was something that happened a lot (and still does) and should have created a powerful emotional plot without any farfetched story line.
And while a bit too cute, the idea of a husband and wife discovering they were both being spies for the same group withou More...

One of those books I wanted to like more than I did. The premise is entertaining - two spies married to each other. It was a good read, but not a great read. It's an easy read, and will probably be enjoyed by those who like fast-paced spicy historical romance novels. The fight and actions scenes were quite vivid. I could visualize them quite easily, which is always fun.

I think part of my discomfort was that the author's writing style did not grab me. The book did not start off on a strong note. More...

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There are some authors that do ‘angst’ romance well (i.e. Laura Kinsale); some that do ‘humor’ well (i.e. Julia Quinn); and then there’s Shana Galen, who, in my humble opinion, is so, so, very good and can do both so very, very well.

Lord Adrian Smythe is a very good spy, employed by the Barbican group, which is a branch of Home Office; but after a successful job, he’s forced to take an early retirement, and More...

The war with Napoleon is over. What's a spy to do? Such is the problem facing Adrian and Sophia in LORD AND LADY SPY, Shana Galen's latest Regency historical with mystery and action.

Unbeknownst to each other, Adrian and Sophia both worked for a top secret organization in the Foreign Office. Retirement holds no allure for spies who thrive on danger and deception, especially when their marriage is troubled. And then the prime minister requests their services in a murder investigation. The catch--t More...

Exciting, emotional, funny read that kept me sucked in the whole way through.

Lord and Lady Smythe are retired spies who have had their identities kept secret even from each other. Their marriage is a lie and is falling apart. Now they have been forced to join in Society functions with the Ton. They are both going stir crazy and will do anything to get back into the game. Along comes an opportunity. The Prime Minister needs a job completed and whoever solves the case will get their job back. One More...

Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen
Historical Romance- Sept. 1st, 2011
5 stars

Lord Adrian Smythe is a gentleman and a spy. He works in the clandestine Barbican group for the Foreign Office. But after the capture of Napoleon, he suddenly finds himself out of work! Adrian lives for the excitement and the knowledge that he is helping his country especially since his father was branded a traitor. He dreads returning to boring England and his estranged wife Sophia

Lady Sophia Smythe is known simply as the More...

This summer, I challenged myself to sample genres outside my comfort reading – Regency romances. My experiment generated mixed results. I dove back into the Regency Era with Shana Galen’s LORD AND LADY SPY. An easy tagline would be “Mr. and Mrs. Smith in a Regency Romance.” But this book is more than an aristocratic couple who use their marriage to cover their secret identities. The opening chapter gave us a glimpse of their talents as Lord and Lady Smythe hunted the same villain on separate mis More...

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Bad enough she gets stuck in a closet for hours waiting for the right man to visit the courtesan, especially since the current client thinks he’s a horse. Now another spy has grabbed the man she was waiting to collect!

I really liked the premise of this story. Ms. Galen spins a good yarn with an action packed story, lots of intrigue and flames between the husband and wife who star in this story. Lord Smythe is extremely good looking, More...

Lord and Lady Spy - what an absolutely fun read, it also helped that every time I looked at the hero on the cover I kept thinking of the brooding, handsome Julian McMahon!

Sophia and Adrian are spies working for the same organisation, only they're not aware of that fact. Even though they are married to each other! When they discover this about each other they immediately set out to prove who is the better spy. But the more they work together the more the very real and true attraction between the More...

Review originally posted at Ramblings From This Chick

I can't even begin to formulate into words how much I loved this book. This is definitely hands-down my favorite historical that I've read this year. I just couldn't put this book down. From page one to the last page, it's packed with action, romance, and lots of steamy smex scenes.

I experienced so many different emotions reading this book. Not only did it get me all hot and bothered, but it also brought tears to my eyes more than once. It is More...

Although I've read quite a few Regency romances, this is the first that I've read where the couple was already married. I have to say, as a married woman myself, I really enjoyed it. Here are two people who don't really know one another very well, but what they do know, they like. They married each other because it was a good match for each. Neither realized the other was a spy. Sophia thought Adrian was a little staid in his library, but was infatuated with him and Adrian thought she dressed in More...

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The setup of the story is very similar to Mr. and Mrs. Smith; set during the Regency period, a married couple with a distant relationship are top spies for the Foreign Office's secretive Barbican Group. Adrian and Sophia are attracted to each other and in a type of tentative love, but events and secrets keep them separated as they travel the continent to protect British interests. Once the war with the French ends, the government decides to scale back on some of More...

Napoleon Bonaparte has been exiled and the war is over. England is recalling her spies and sending them home. Not all those newly un-employed spies are happy about this change of fortunes. The Saint doesn't want to go back to her mundane wifely duties. She much prefers the sophisticated, stylish woman of the world she is when on a case. Well, life can't be all that bad at home, if only her husband weren't such a bore.

Agent Wolfe would like nothing better to be at home in his wife's arms, if only More...

the sheer joy of winning this goodreads giveaway can not be expressed in mere words. imagine the childlike glee with which i checked the mailbox every afternoon - like ralphie and his little orphan annie secret decoder ring! also, imagine my immense displeasure when it finally arrived and i sliced my finger open tearing into the impressively sealed envelope.

after the bleeding stopped, i was appeased by the fact that it came with a free romance sampler. it's so cheestastic looking - i'm all a-qu More...

I actually like this book. I thought it was going to be similar to Mr. and Mrs. Smith but it's not. The story takes a different turn early on in the book.

Sophia and Adrian are both spies working for the same group. The group has been downsized and there is one opening left. Adrian and Sophia are approached with the possibility of the last opening going to one of them. They are then tasked with solving a murder, who ever catches the murderer wins the spot.

Adrian and Sophia team up but then end u More...

Lord and Lady Spy by Shana Galen is a wonderfully sizzling action adventure with a delightful pair of characters Lord Adrian Smythe and Lady Sophia Smythe. As, you may guess the lead characters are married, and from the title you might have gathered that they are involved in espionage, but all is not as it seems.

One of my favorite things about the book were the beautifully choreographed action scenes which transport the reader right into the midst of the adventure. I also enjoyed the relationshi More...

Lord and Lady Spy adalah hadiah natal kedua dari Santaku, yaitu Mbak Dewi. Kalian dapat mengunjungi blognya di sini dan membaca riddle untuk hadiah ini di sini (dijamin bisa ketawa-ketawa atau minimal senyum deh =P). Terus dia juga bikin blog post yang tetep gak kalah narsis mengenai asal-usul riddle dia di sini.

Bagi yang suka sama film Mr. and Mrs. Smith yang diperankan oleh Brad Pitt dan Angelina Jolie, direkomendasikan untuk membaca buku ini juga. Ceritanya mirip, hanya saja, kali ini pemeran More...

Take England during the Napoleonic wars and combine it with the idea of the movie MR & MRS SMITH but instead of trying to kill each other, the married spies are in competition with each other for a single opening in a spy agency.

Lord and Lady Smythe have been living a rather bland public marriage with separate private lives until each discovers the other is in fact a renowned spy for England under their secret code names. All of a sudden the "spice" returns to their marriage as they learn w More...

Inti ceritanya adalah, pasangan suami istri yang ternyata dua-duanya agen rahasia Inggris. Baru ketahuan setelah mereka berdua bersaing untuk memecahkan pembunuhan adik wakil perdana menteri. Pada akhirnya mereka berdua bisa bekerja sama setelah melalui rasa tidak percaya baik sebagai agen rahasia dan sebagai pasangan suami istri.

Alurnya cepet dan tidak bertele-tele jadi ga ngebosenin. Trus cowok dan ceweknya faithfull walaupun mereka dah ga pernah ml lagi sejak keguguran yang ketiga, jadi ga bi More...

I was referring to this book on twitter as LORD AND LADY HOTTNESS while reading it. Because is was hot, and boy HOWDY. I loved it. The tension, sexual and otherwise was stellar and palpable. I don't like reading fight scenes, but these fight scenes I READ because there was so much more to them than a smile parry and thrust! *snicker* kook I digress.

What a great read, I could not put it down, it had me on the elliptical trainer at the gym for 70 minutes three days in a row. I was sad when it end More...

I am giving this book a three star, because it is a well written book and has great love scenes. The thing I am having a hard time with is that I don't think it is very believable, in many ways. 1. I just don't see how spy's that are suppose to notice every detail didn't ever notice anything strange about their spouse. 2. If they had all of these injury's for all of these years I would think one of them would have notices something. 3. For this time period there is no way that Sophia could do al More...

Favorite quote: How could his breath on her skin feel so good? And wouldn’t he find her utterly ridiculous if she were to ask him to simply breathe all over her?

I have to admit, it was the cover that caught my attention on this book. Usually when that happens, it’s the man – his bare chest, muscled arms, smoldering eyes - but in this case, it was the Lady of the title. Most Regency novels feature fawning, fainting women just waiting to be ravished. On Lord and Lady Spy, the Lady in question is s More...