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The Duke is Mine by Eloisa James

April 10, 2012 · Filed under Adult Fiction, Historical, James Eloisa, Romance

This is #3 in her fairy tales, this one is very very faintly reminiscent of the Princess and the Pea, in terms of a “true” duchess.

This has a little bit of adventure, nice historical detail about the war with France, and is very funny in typical James fashion.

Justin Fiebvre, is totally a take on Justin Bieber, who her daughter has a big crush on according to FB, so I assume that that was for her. Complete with describing his dreaminess and lock of hair sweeping across his face. A hoot.

Can’t wait to see her at a local bookstore signing at the end of the month!!!

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When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James

January 4, 2012 · Filed under Adult Fiction, Fairy Tale, Historical, James Eloisa, Romance

This is the second in a new series of fairy tale related stories that one of my very favorite romance authors, Eloisa James, is doing.  I thought this was wonderful and just loved it. The fairy tale connection is quite slim-basically a lovely young woman gets sent by her father to this cantankerous Duke’s castle. He has a reputation as a difficult beastly man, but due to some hilariously convoluted circumstances involving a gown that made her look enceinte, he is the only choice she has for marriage.  Then of course they fall in love, despite their own protestations.  The whole novel has James’s signature wit-the opening is particularly clever, frank, and funny.  It was a bit steamier than I recall her other novels being–not for the prudish (but always in good taste.)  The Duke is an interesting character-he’s a doctor and surgeon and has turned his castle into a hospital.  He has no bedside manner whatsoever.  I was reading and thought, “good grief, he’s just like House” and then when I read the afterward I saw that, in fact, the author had deliberately modeled him after House! Witty and beautiful Linnet is the perfect foil for him.

Delightful historical romance

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The Lady Most Likely…. by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James, and Connie Brockway

October 13, 2011 · Filed under Adult Fiction, Brockway Connie, James Eloisa, Quinn Julia, Romance · Tagged

A Regency romance that is one continuous tale, but written in three parts by three well known romance writers.  I’m not that familiar with Connie Brockway, but I adore the first two, so I was very pleased to pick this off the Borders shelf the day before it closed.  The premise is that Hugh, a handsome titled gentleman with a passion for horses, has decided it’s time to take a wife (lest he die from a horse fall without leaving an heir.)  He doesn’t have much time for wooing and romance so he asks his sister to make a list of eligible ladies and then invite them all to a house party.  A wonderful setup for romantic hijinks and easily splits the novel into three parts–each author gets to write about Hugh’s attempts with one of the eligible ladies.  It’s evident from the very first scene when Hugh asks his sister and his sister’s widowed best friend about this whole cockamamie plan that he will end up with the friend.

I enjoyed seeing how each lady did not work out for Hugh and all the usual trappings of fine Regency writing-a witty loving sister, parlor games, backstories of doing the right thing, loving someone from afar for years, and so on.  The three parts connected practically seamlessly, though each section did have the touch of its author.  Perhaps I’ll look into some other Connie Brockway novels.

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