Books by Alex Beecroft
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review 1: Fun, but liked the idea of it more than the reality. Equivalent to maybe a 70th percentile quality slash fic. Enjoyably indulgent, with plenty of solidly detailed Age of Sail window dressing, but not hugely psychologically convincing, nor satisfying as a well-turned novel. I am t...
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review 1: Ever since reading The Reluctant Berserker I have been making my way through Beecroft's work, and while I've enjoyed most of it, none of it has really been on the same level as TRB.Same with Captain's Surrender. I did enjoy it, but it didn't grip me. I think part of it is that th...
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review 1: I had some trouble rating this book. On the one hand I really enjoyed it and before I knew it I had it finished. But on the other hand at times the MC's really irritated me...It is very well written "cinderfella" story; rich businessman meets and falls in love with a very poor su...
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review 1: I initially had a hard time getting into this - I had even put it onto my Abandoned Shelf because at a certain point I just wasn't interested, and only picked it up again due to a lack of something else to read.While I'm glad I finished it and it did get more interesting, I didn'...
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review 1: This is very enjoyable, quite funny and wildly imaginative. At its heart, it's a story about two lonely men who find each other in highly coincidental (or are they?) circumstances.Joel is wonderful and Kai is a wonder. They take ages to get together, but all the way through their...
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review 1: I've always really enjoyed Alex Beecroft's characters and attention to historical detail. My one big complaint with her books is that there's never enough sex for me, but I realize that's a "to each their own" thing. This was a very compelling romance with probably the most sex o...
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review 1: The Crimson Outlaw is a gorgeously written historical romance set in medieval Transylvania (Romania), which centers on the coming of age of innocent young Vali, a nobleman’s son. The first scene, which describes an arranged marriage taking place on a rain-soaked day, is absolutel...
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review 1: I read the two Under the Hill books back to back, and I'm very glad I did. Set pretty much in the area I grew up, the story is full of familiar landmarks and almost-familiar local eccentrics. Then there are the various inhabitants of the faerie realms and their very human prisone...