Books by Loretta Chase
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review 1: The entire time I was reading this, I thought the story was odd, but apparently, I'm alone on this one. I could not understand why this story got such sparkling reviews. For the first 30% of the novella! there was almost no dialogue and I wondered what the heck was going on. T...
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review 1: The last of the three Noirot sisters, Leonie, is sill running the dress making business but it is hard without Sophy and Marcelline Simon is lately back from the Continent with his cousin. They meet and are attracted but her business comes first. There are a lot of secondary c...
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review 1: This book was really good. I love strong heroines and Marcelline really fit the bill. The story revolves around Clevedon and Marcelline. Clevedon had been abroad enjoying his bachelorhood while he can. He received a reminder of his marriage engagement to Clara Fairfax. During his...
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review 1: I read this a while back and while I don't typically read historical smut since my youth (think I got burned out), I was in the mood for a little smuttier historical romance than my beloved Georgette Heyer. I listed to the audio version and it was great. I was sick (that's when...
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review 1: This was a fun read. Marcelline is a fiery character and just what the Duke of Clevedon needed to go against. I enjoyed their exchanges, as well as how the 3 Noirot sisters worked together. I really fell for Clevedon though when he took to Lucie/Erroll. First by bringing her the ...
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review 1: Another delightful historical romance from long-time favorite Chase, read by another favorite Kate Reading. The Noirot sisters, extraordinary seamstresses, hope to set up a fashionable dressmaking shop in London--and they plan to do this by dressing Lady Clara Fairfax and thus ma...
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review 1: This one was a smooth running story with a good dialog you came to expect from Ms. Chase writing. But it made me feel like a pearl diver who jumped to retrieve a promising oyster, opened it, and, instead of a beautiful pearl, found a small lackluster specimen. The story could be ...
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review 1: Historical English fiction for childhood friends that haven't seen each other for many years, but kept up a correspondence that suddenly met each other anew as sexy adults. Then the usual happens with some help from their conspiring parents who set them up with a renovation trip ...
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review 1: Great romance novel.Sophia Noirot is the publicity genius for Maison Noirot, the dressmaking salon she runs with her sisters. She's busy, her older sister just married a duke and she has too much work. She has no plans for romance.But then Clara, their favorite customer, runs awa...
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review 1: Sophy was a Noirot, a breed keenly tuned to animal excitement- and not possessing much in the way of moral principals.And that people, is the heroine!Sophy is one witty chica, with an even wittier cache of words, that keep you hooked.“Love will have its work cut out for it. I’m n...
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review 1: Un inizio frizzante e insolito, poi tutto si "normalizza"...La protagonista di questo rosa non solo ha un nome abbastanza insolito, Zoe, ma anche una storia avventurosa alle spalle: è stata, infatti, rapita quando era adolescente e ha trascorso più di dieci anni in un harem, in c...
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review 1: Run away daughter shows up after being in mid-east; must retroduce her the English society
review 2: Very good though I originally started reading and didn't finish.
review 2: Very good though I originally started reading and didn't finish.
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review 1: 3&1/2
review 2: This book’s plot was totally ridiculous but I liked the characters so much I almost didn’t mind.
review 2: This book’s plot was totally ridiculous but I liked the characters so much I almost didn’t mind.
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review 1: I wanted to like this book so much more than I actually did. I loved the characters of Olivia and Peregrine from Lord Perfect (Carsington Brothers #3) and was very much looking forward to reading their story. I was disappointed by how much they can't stop fighting! Can't stop fig...
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review 1: Review taken from my Blog Post #103 in March 2011 - book borrowed from the library.There is a very good reason this book was awarded the top slot in 4 categories in All About Romance 2010 Reader Poll .... simply because it is completely and utterly amazing.The story of two charac...
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review 1: Egyptian scholar who stays in Egypt to avoid his irritating and half-crazy parents returns to London for the first time in 5 years and immediately realizes the fiery red-head with a notorious past who is supposed to be one of his few friends has changed from a skinny girl to a be...