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Review: Lucy and the Duke of Secrets

Before I started Lucy, I had recently finished reading The Duchess Deal (Tessa Dare), The Duke and I (Julia Quinn), and Secrets of a Summer Night (Lisa Kleypas). They all had likeable heroines, but I thought Lucy Bell blew them out of the water. Which is surprising because at first I thought Lucy was going to be quite an annoying heroine. She does babble a lot at the beginning which may give the impression that she is young (which she is) and perhaps stupid (which she is not). But I kept reading...

Review: Romancing Mister Bridgerton

There are major spoilers for Bridgerton Season 1 as well as the first four books of the series below.

Colin Bridgerton was famous for many things. […] What he was not famous for, and in fact what many people would have sworn he did not possess, was a temper.
And, in fact, due to his remarkable (and heretofore untapped) self-control, no one was going to get a glimpse of it that night, either, although his soon-to-be-wife might wake up the next day with a serious bruise on her arm.
“Colin,” she g...

Review: The Duchess Deal

I was not a huge fan of The Duchess Deal. It was fun, it was readable, there was steam, but the romance was not the part I enjoyed the most. The entire story is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, right down to there being a Cogsworth-type as well as other servants all desperate to get their “Master” to fall in love so that he can be happy again. The servants’ eagerness actually leads to some really cute dialogue, some of the best in the book.

The hero is the Beast, unsurprisingly, and very ...