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So, apparently most people have read Courtney Milan's Unveiled. If you haven't, I strongly encourage you to push it to the top of the TBR pile. I think I've already read it 3 times. Ash, I might add, is like this all the way through--his instincts are always to think first of the heroine--even in the most unlikely of circumstances. And what could be more romantic than that?
Yes, silly housewives of 1817--wouldn't that be great!
Rereading some old favorites. Started Vanessa kelly's new book but haven't really gotten caught up in it yet.However I do at least feel like she really is writing about the period. I have picked up a couple of books lately where they completely ignore the social conventions and morals of the day. Why do they even bother writing historicals if they are not intrigued by the ways the time period shaped relationships? And frankly one had the heroine behaving in ways that I don't think a 21 c young woman would do in the same circumstances...
If I hadn’t loved this hero by this point in the book, this alone would have done it. (Remember, don't post the book or author--I'll post it Tuesday night.But you can say things about the book if you know it.) He strode towards her, step by step, the crowd seeming to part before him. He didn’t stop. He just looked in her direction and wanted her. And lo, she waited.
“Oh God. He did. He did simply walk up to you in a park. He’s doing it again.” Lady Cosgrove poked at her ringlets. “Heroine, darling, you must introduce me. He is a doll of a man. And my husband has not yet returned from France.”
Heroine glanced at her incredulously, but Lady Cosgrove seemed to have no sense of irony at all. She really did imagine that hero might become her personal plaything and that heroine would be willing to facilitate it.
Hero skirted around another cluster of men and women and stopped before heroine. “Heroine,” he said, giving her a correct little bow.
“Hero.”
“May I have your first waltz?”
Oh no. No he could not. They couldn’t. They could not do this, and certainly not in the open. Her face would reflect the turmoil she felt. And if she danced with him, his incandescent response to her would be displayed to the world.
. . . .
“Heroine,” Lady Cosgrove was saying softly at her side. “I say, heroine.”
Hero glanced at her. “And who is your friend?”
“Diana, Lady Cosgrove, may I present to you Mr. Hero. Heir presumptive to the Duchy of X. Mr. Hero, Lady Cosgrove.”
The woman tittered softly.
“Hmm.” Hero’s voice was a trifle wary. “Should I be dancing with Lady Cosgrove?” He met heroine’s eyes as he spoke.
“Oh, please,” Lady Cosgrove breathed.
Well. If they were going to occasion gossip, it was best they do it properly.
“No,” Heroine said distinctly. “You should not. Her husband would certainly not approve.”
A gasp sounded beside her.
“I should love, however, to introduce you to Lady Elaine.”
Lady Cosgrove gasped louder but recovered quickly. “Mr. Hero,” she said, reaching out for Hero’s cuff. “Do listen to me. I know that you may believe that Heroine has your best interests at heart, as she is some kind of a relation, if only a distant one. But if you intend to be a duke, you must not let yourself be guided so easily, not by such a one as her. Take my warning to heart; she’s using you to punish me, because I kept my distance from her these past months. You know that any woman of good sense and decency would have done the same.”
No, Heroine had never been like Lady Cosgrove. For one thing, she had never been so stupid. Hero’s smile grew darker, and he looked at the woman. “I knew the instant Heroine spoke that she intended to use me as a weapon. What you fail to understand is this: I am her weapon to use.”
Heroine’s lungs burned. So much for not occasioning gossip. But she couldn’t fault him. She couldn’t reprimand him. She couldn’t even stop her own smile from spilling out, stupidly, over her face, the truth writ large for anyone to see.
“And I asked her to direct me for that reason.” Hero looked back at Heroine. “I’ll be by to collect my waltz.”
I tried Touch of a Thief again and gave up. Not for me at all. Reading My Favorite Countess.
I read TID first and was blown away even though the monsters etc didn't really appeal. I liked the prequel but think I probably would not have if I read it first.
Just read the school of essential ingredients. I really loved it.
I really liked it even though it didn't have the "ordinary people" flavor I like ao much about her work.
Oh this is a really good book. It's the first of a series of 5. I would love to know if she has another one coming out....
I just read Follow My Lead by Kate Noble. Really liked it--her other books were funny but this one is both funny and moving.Just learned about the last invasion of England, in 1797, which is one slapstick error after another, and in which jemima Nicholas captured 12 French soldiers with a pitchfork and imprisoned them in a church. I really wish someone would write a book about that!
I liked Any Man of Mine too. I didn't think I would at the begining...buy she made it work.
It looks like she has a new book out this July and about 8 re-releases spread between now and Jan '13. I tried Touch of a Thief and only got a few pages in--I really didn't like it. I'll try it again but right now I'm reading Eleven Scandals, which starts out well. I also have been reading more Jodi Thomas (two Texas hearts, which I liked) and I read both of the Susanna Fraser books--I liked A Marriage of Inconvenience a lot.
What books are you all looking forward to? Right now on my list for May and June all I have is the new JQ and Loretta Chase (and I already have Vanessa Kelly's book.)
Hm. I felt like My One and Only was two books. One--the reuniting of the divorced couple--I loved. I thought it was beautifully done. The other was the gee, how silly and stupid can the H be relationship with the boyfriend she's involved with as the book starts. TBH I feel like Higgans doesn't really trust her own writing--she can write some beautiful moments (In her last book too, or maybe book before last?-- the way the brother of the heroine's dead husband treated her was amazing) but she seems to feel that she has to do super silly humor and make her heroine seem foolish to keep her audience. Someday, I suspect, she'll write a book that totally drops that--and it will be amazing. I keep reading her waiting for that day and loving the parts where she gets it right.
I have no idea.
Sure. I'm definitely planning to read it so I'd be happy to.
I felt like that about the first Dreyer book. The second Dreyer book worked better for me for two reasons: The hero falls for the heroine pretty quickly and does what he does because he's trying to protect her from attacks (he's afraid that if people know he cares for her she'll be used as a way to pressure him); and the worst things that are done to her are in fact not done to her by him but by others. His big failure--which she points out late in the book and he agrees--is that he should have just told her what was going on.
I just read Dangerous in Diamonds. Not sure what to think of it. I felt like Castleford lost a lot of his charm and gaiety as he was reformed. On the other hand, Daphne couldn't possibly fall in love with a drunkard or a man who kept sleeping with whores. (In fact I found it very disconcerting at the end when she expressed surprise that he hadne't slept with anyone else since he met her...)I guess I was hoping that Hunter would have found a way for him to focus all his joie de vivre on Daphne. I think that was what she tried to do but it didn't really work for me.
Also just read The Seduction of his Wife by Tiffany Clare and was disappointed in it. She has a lot of wonderful bits, but her characters and plot are so inconsistent.Was the hero in England at all during the 10 years he didn't see his wife? If he was, why didn't he see her--was he supposed to be actively avoiding her? The heroine is too proper when she's painting a Duke's mistress in the nude (and herself)? REALLY? And many moments where characters do things totally inconsistent with what we have just been told...
Still reading lots of Raeanne Thaynes. They are not as good as Dancing in the Moonlight...but still nice.
Same here!
I've been reading Raeanne Thayne books after trying Dancing in the Moonlight. And I'm waiting for a bunch of releases starting w Mary Jo Pitney...I also tried and didn't like a contemp by Jaci Burton because she did so well in DABWAHA. Oh well.
Oh you have treasures ahead. This series and the one that starts with miss wonderful....
