Channel Fleet (8 books in series)
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review 1: synopsis:laura is the bastard child of a peer of the realm, and was auctioned off the highest bidder by her father. her husband wants an heir from her, and laura suffers his attention. when her husband becomes incapacitated after an apoplectic fit, laura is grateful, but resolves...
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review 1: In order for this to have ended up in my house someone, somewhere, must have recommended it to me, but I can’t imagine who, or why. The first third of it is absolutely abysmal; tediously dull and repellently preachy. If one were to pick this up expecting a regency romance (whic...
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review 1: Oliver Worthy is a Captain of a ship (and also pretty damn rich from the ~spoils of war). Eleanor "Nana" Massie is the granddaughter of an innkeeper (and also the illegitimate daughter of a Viscount). Because of said Viscount, Oliver goes looking for Nana and they fall in love! A...
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review 1: I stumbled upon this book in my public library's ebook section. Loved it! It is part of Carla Kelly's Channel Fleet Trilogy, and I immediately read the next two, one right after the other. For me it was a refreshing change from "the ton" of Regency romance. These stories focus...
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review 1: This is an excellent follow up to "Marrying the Captain." Nana and Oliver appear in this story but as a backdrop to Lady Laura Taunton (Nana's half-sister) and Philemon Brittle, a Royal Navy surgeon. Lady Taunton has been widowed for a year when she works up the courage to read N...
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review 1: This was a great read. What I love about Carla Kelly is that she writes about the time period more realistically without being "too much" and as a result the stories are interesting and compelling. Her characters are interesting and compelling as well because they're 'average' ...
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review 1: Nana Massie, the only granddaughter of a poor but respectable Plymouth innkeeper, has every reason to distrust the naval men upon which her and her beloved Gran's livelihood depend. The illegitimate daughter of a lieutenant, now a lord of the Admiralty, she fled the education her...
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review 1: This is one of my favorite Carla Kelly books, even though it's one of her darker stories. Or perhaps I enjoy it so much because it's one of her darker stories. Ms. Kelly doesn't whitewash the horrors of war and the toll it takes on both the soldiers fighting in it and the civil...