Books by Grace Burrowes
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review 1: Lucas Denning is another recurring character in some of the Windham novels, and his flirtation with Eve Windham an ongoing thing. I enjoy Lucas, but for some reason I could not warm up to Eve. I wept for her as a child recovering from devastating physical and emotional injury. Th...
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review 1: This is Grace Burrowes at her best. What I love most about her writing is the detail she puts into her work. She paints a world with words that draws you into the time period and makes you for a moment believe you are actually there. Her characters are well developed and like a f...
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review 1: Born of a French mother and an English nobleman father, Sebastian St. Clair was caught in France at the beginning of hostilities there facing either becoming an English captive or joining the French army and fighting against his homeland. He becomes the despised Girard, torturer...
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review 1: Darius, a poor second son, sells himself to "ladies" of certain inclinations in order help keep his small estate going. When he is approached by an elderly man hoping to procure a pregnancy for his young wife, Darius is at first appalled but then realizes what this could mean fin...
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review 1: I read this book and then literally forgot I'd read it, so I went back and lo, there it was, in my Kindle. I started reading it again and it slowly, slowly came back to me...... these characters aren't very interesting and I want to love it, because I love Grace Burrowes, but I d...
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review 1: I am assuming that enough readers have asked Burrowes about the progenitors of her most read series, that she felt obligated to create this back story. Since I have enjoyed the Windhams, I figured this was worth picking up. It was, but only because I have read some of the serie...
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review 1: There are parts of this story which I truly enjoyed, it's wittiness being number one. But there were many things which I did not. While generally I liked the heroine, she was efficient (who wouldn't want a housekeeper like that), discreet and loyal. But when it comes to her perso...
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review 1: I loved this book. I've been devouring her entire backlist. Somehow, despite the fact that her storylines remain so much the SAME, and the conflicts so predictable, the fairy tale ending always leave me a little teary eyed. The hero- Devlin St. Just- is part of a group of 5 broth...
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review 1: The three stars reflect story pacing issues rather than writing quality, story structure or characterizations. Because Maggie and Ben's relationship is initially adversarial, the deep emotional intimacy between them is delayed for nearly 100 pages. The other element that diluted ...
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review 1: I am reading this all out of order, but I am reading them as I find them. I started with Douglas, which seems to be a different series but with all the same characters. The actual 1st book is "The Heir" and this is the 4th book in the Windham series. There are 10 children all tog...
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review 1: I've read three of this author's books, and I have a bit of a bone to pick. I think she struggles with setting. I don't mean she can't describe a cottage or grove. I mean I flip a page and start reading a conversation, thinking everyone is still in the spring house or whatever, a...
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review 1: This book is a MESS!!! It bounced all over the place and suffered from poor plot development as well as random, disconnected sub-plots and bits of info that never quite connected. First they were childhood sweethearts. Then they were going to use eachother as covers from the mama...
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review 1: Read this right after The Courtship, and am happy to find it was on par with The Heir. I highly recommend reading both the prequels if you enjoyed the Heir as it fills in a lot of the back story about Westhaven's half siblings and full siblings. I think I will take a quick read t...
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review 1: Not a favorite but still a good read. The story of Asher and Hannah is about two people meant for each other but each being needed in different places divided by an ocean. It takes a while for Hannah to fully disclose the breadth of her need to return to Boston and she is needed...
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review 1: This was a difficult book to read at one sitting. Twice the emotions were so strong I had to put it down and come back to it after a "rest".Andrew and Astrid have a history (see Gareth's book). They have been friends for several years, but Andrew left England when their friends...
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review 1: I love this book. I really liked the concept of the hero having to ruin the herion for her to receive her inheritance. I had a hard time liking Gareth at first, but as I got further into the book, I grew to love him. I loved Felicity from the very beginning to the end! I just lov...
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review 1: Louisa is a bluestocking who is tired of the marriage mart. Sir Joseph is a widower who is looking for a mother to his children. After Louisa is caught in a compromising position, Joseph offers his hand as a solution to the scandal. Of course, their marriage of convenience tur...
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review 1: This is Michael's tale and it was, admittedly, harder to read than the others in this series.From the beginning, there was this darkness that lingered over Brenna. The more I read, the more my heart wept for her. It wasn't over the way Michael abandoned her so soon after marrying...
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review 1: Frustrating finale to the Windham series. Jenny is a painter, an incredible painter, who's lived unconventionally. She had a tryst with a man at 16, took art lessons, and even sketched a man nude. Elijah is a renowned painter who leaves his family after a fight with his father...
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review 1: I noticed before I was about to start this book that the rating for it was a bit lower than most of the other books in this series and I thought I was about to pick up a bit of bummer of a book. Well, not at all, and I’m quite surprised by the lower score because I really loved ...
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review 1: This was an irritating book to read solely because of the multiple characters. I didn't know there relations and their sporadic appearances seem random at best. I took it as a sign of poor writing. I was irritated at the random characters with no introductions or their significan...
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review 1: Grace Burrowes' "Beckman, Lord of Sins" - #4 in the Lonely Lords series (Reaction after first reading) Even though I'm giving this one 4 stars, it's not quite as enjoyable as the previous two stories about the Haddonfield brothers (Nicholas and Ethan) in this series. I saw a pa...
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review 1: I enjoyed this book as I've enjoyed all of the stories of the Windhams. You can read it first or the series in the order it was written. I was thankful that there was this novella and would love to see one for Bartholomew as well. I was a bit disappointed in the hastiness of the ...
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review 1: OK I am completely confused. How can this be a first book, when I just read the previous book in which The Earl was a character, and it is even mentioned in this book? I presume we are going to go through the remaining Duke's sons in the next books. But in the previous book, Vic...
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review 1: Anna Seaton has been on the run for two years. She wants to confide in her employer, the Earl of Westhaven, a man she has grown to love, but she's been instructed not to trust a soul with her secret. When she receives word that her location has been revealed and the truth starts ...
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review 1: Anna Seaton is a great character, full of charm and wit. She's working as a housekeeper, with flowers in every room and marzipan for the Earl of Westhaven. The house hums along like a well-oiled machine. But she's too well-educated for a housekeeper.Gayle Windham, the Earl of Wes...
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review 1: ***partial spoiler alert***Although it is not the order in which the author released/wrote these tales, I'm glad that I read Maggie's story before I read this one. I preferred reading about a catty b*tchy mother of a duke's bastard (Cecily) first (if at all) then getting some so...
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review 1: I have been reading and studying for my class on Women and Religion. This means I have been learning lots of new things, but my brain hasn't done this much work for a long time. After completing my midterm exam, I needed a break. Ms Burrowes provided me with a wonderful change...
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review 1: St. Just is the perfect flawed character. Trying to find peace is proving to be an issue though, especially after having been fighting against old Boney. However, thanks to an Earldom that has recently been given him, he's now on his way to finding that peace. Along with his new ...
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review 1: An abandoned baby, a generous Good Samaritan woman, and a competent Good Samaritan man snowed in together equal a charming tale about how wishes can come true in unpredictable ways (for the characters, not Romance readers). G.B.'s ability to portray the ups and downs of living in...
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review 1: 1,5Não sei bem mais o que dizer deste livro, não senti empatia com a história, nem com as personagens, nem com a escrita. Tendo já lido imensos romances histórico é impossível não fazer comparações entre autoras e livros deste género e a conclusão a que chego é que Grace Burrowes...
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review 1: This is the first story of the Windham sisters (there are 5). Lady Sophie has always been the good girl, the one her parents can rely on and don't have to worry about. She likes her quiet life but wishes for a man to love and to be loved in return.Enters Vim.After a chance enco...
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review 1: The Virtuoso features the youngest Windham son, Valentine. As the third in the series, the applied formula always becomes incredibly obvious and unfortunately, every seam was in view and rather threadbare. In this series--and Burrowes isn't the only one to do this--each series ha...
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review 1: I love Grace Burrowes, and even in the novella form, she doesn't disappoint.Morgan and Archer were barely secondary characters in other Burrowes stories...they're sort of third string. Which makes this short even more fun, and shows off Burrowes' skill at character development as...
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review 1: It is so difficult to pick a favorite of Grace Burrowes books because they are all so good but this one is high on my list. By now her books should be repetitive as I'm been on a mission to read them all. But no, this one was special. Louisa and her hero, Sir Joseph, each have s...
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review 1: I love the Windhams a lot and have mostly enjoyed each siblings' love story. Once again, we get Burrowes' favorite trifecta--children, scents/smells and secrets--that has become her signature.Up to the half way point, I was enjoying the romance between Joseph and Louisa because i...
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review 1: No matter how much I may take exception to a certain inconsistency about details in Burrowes' novels, or how much scandal is really going to stick and damage a ducal family, she does her research homework when she gives a character a skill or talent that is central to who they ar...
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review 1: Strong start with a good job of building the sizzle between the main couple. However, I would have preferred more period detail and less on side-characters. Although the cover and title page did not indicate that this was part of a series, there was a page that showed a family ge...
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review 1: I love reading about characters with a physical hindrance. Amy's ability to read lips due to her hearing impairment becomes an asset in this story. Could easily have become a full novel but these were secondary, non-alpha characters so I understand why it's a novella. There is go...
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review 1: What a treat! I don't often come across romance anthologies with such a high, consistent level of quality. The stories are all connected, taking place in a village called Hopewell-on-Lyft in Nottinghamshire, England, and much of the action takes place in the local pub called "Th...
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review 1: As reviewed for Smitten by BooksHannah Stark's financial situation is precarious. She thinks her problems have been solved when she's offered a job at the Knightley Brothers' Law Firm, but to her dismay, she finds she'll have to spend six months working in Family Law before she ...