This guest review is from Morgan Grantwood. Morgan is an aspiring novelist with a Regency series about bluestockings in the works and degrees in English and History. But her day job, where she writes millions of words per year, sometimes gets in her way. So she reads and reviews other people’s books instead. … Do you ever read one of those books where you admire and respect the narrative choices, but those same choices leave … Continue reading A Scot to the Heart by Caroline Linden →
The Girl Next Door by Chelsea M. Cameron is $1.99! Tara and Shana wrote a joint review for this one back in May and gave it a B-:
Shana: I would give this a B-. I loved the wholesome sweetness of the love story. I was rooting hard for Iris and Jude, but the low-conflict storyline left me wanting a little more angst and a lot more plot. This reminded me of a Hallmark Channel movie with girl sex.
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Buck Wild by Lauren Landish is $1.99 at Amazon! This is the first book in the Bennett Boys Ranch series and is part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals. Check out the rest of the deals because there are romances by Lucy Parker, Samantha Chase, and more.
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An Earl Like You by Caroline Linden is the second book in the Wagers of Sin series and features a plot where the hero is involved in deceiving the heroine in a significant way. I really struggled with this plot and with finding any empathy for the hero, and I spent a lot of the book cringing internally over the humiliation the heroine would ultimately face. This book gave me a lot of second-hand embarrassment. When … Continue reading An Earl Like You by Caroline Linden →
I really wanted to like My Once and Future Duke but despite a heroine I loved and a great depiction of female friendships, the hero ruined it for me. Sophie Campbell was orphaned at a young age and her aristocratic grandfather wanted nothing to do with her, so he paid only for her education until she was of age and then he cut her off. Sophie has (successfully) been working her way toward financial security by … Continue reading My Once and Future Duke by Caroline Linden →
I’ve enjoyed Ms. Linden’s Scandals series, but had fallen behind. Despite being a modest 176 pages, this short novel is a complete story and has inspired me to pick up the last volume in the series. This book is the third story in the series of five. For those who are just starting the series, the Scandal books whirl around the conceit of naughty pamphlets, “50 Ways to Sin,” which detail the sexcapades of certain … Continue reading All’s Fair in Love and Scandal by Caroline Linden →
This is the final book in Caroline Linden’s Scandalous series (vaguely inspired by the existence of 50 Shades and what makes a cultural zeitgeist, as discussed in the podcast she did with Sarah several months ago). It wraps up the story of the last Weston sibling, the plot that’s been working through the entire series, and the mystery of who’s been writing the Lady Charlotte erotica that’s everyone has been reading. Olivia Herbert and James Weston grew up … Continue reading Six Degrees of Scandal by Caroline Linden →
This week, Sarah interviews bestselling historical author Caroline Linden about her Scandals series, her upcoming book, Love in the Time of Scandal, and about her education in mathematics. We talk about math, romance novels, and the sexually explicit historical literature she read while doing research for this series, too.
“Will You Be My Wi-Fi” by Caroline Linden is one of four stories in the At the Billionaire’s Wedding anthology , though you can now get the story on its own. In the anthology, all four novellas take place (obviously) at a billionaire’s wedding. The characters to be wed—though they aren’t super important aside from facilitating the location where all these stories take place—are Silicon Valley tech billionaire Duke Austen, and romance novelist Jane Sparks. … Continue reading “Will You Be My Wi-Fi” by Caroline Linden →
This RITA® Reader Challenge 2014 review was written by JW. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Historical Romance category. The summary: Joan Bennet is tired of being a wallflower. Thanks to some deliciously scandalous—and infamous—stories, she has a pretty good idea of what she's missing as a spinster. Is even a short flirtation too much to ask for? Tristan, Lord Burke, recognizes Joan at once for what she is: trouble. Not only … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: Love and Other Scandals by Caroline Linden →
This RITA® Reader Challenge 2014 review was written by Bean. This story was nominated for the RITA® in the Historical Romance category. The summary: Joan Bennet is tired of being a wallflower. Thanks to some deliciously scandalous—and infamous—stories, she has a pretty good idea of what she's missing as a spinster. Is even a short flirtation too much to ask for? Tristan, Lord Burke, recognizes Joan at once for what she is: trouble. Not only … Continue reading RITA Reader Challenge: Love and Other Scandals by Caroline Linden →
