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review 1: I find myself liking books where authors turn typical plots or tropes on their head. Isolde is tired of being the heroine in other people's stories, and takes over a run-down, spooky, castle. But instead of madwoman-in-the-attic, tormented gothic we get a funny,charming story abo...
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review 1: One of the best books that I have read in a LONG time!!! Even after I was only to the second or third chapter, I was already telling myself that this will definitely be a keeper so that I can read it again just in case I missed one little detail. So good! The story started off ...
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review 1: I loved the first story by Tesssa Dare. I though it was just delightful and loved the HEA. She was the author I bought the book for, so I wasn't disappointed. I haven't read any of the other three authors before and don't have any plans to read anything else by them. The LaValle ...
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review 1: Diana, the asthmatic beauty who has lived in Spindles( aka Spinster's)Cove for 2 years gets her love story in this novella. I usually dislike novella's but because Diana and her family have featured in so many previous books their characters were fully developed with a history t...
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review 1: On nights like tonight, it seemed this was the closest she would ever come to dancing among them. She was eighteen years old and still sneaking glimpses through keyholes - all because of one impulsive mistake, made years ago. So wretchedly unfair.When Eliza discovers notorious ...
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review 1: 3.5 stars. I liked the mystery behind Kate's birth/childhood and the hints of unknown history between her and Thorne. What gave me pause was the "redemption of a difficult man just by force of love" trope. While I certainly agree with the sometimes delicious angst it can give a...
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review 1: This was a really quick read...a little too quick, to be honest. Yet still, the story that unfolds is sweet and engaging. After four years of fighting in the Napoleonic war, Luke has returned to England, a changed man. He is no longer the happy, carefree gentleman he was before h...
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review 1: I thought this book started out great! I love how Tessa Dare starts her books with a bang, jumps right into the action on the first page. The storyline of falling in love with the best friends sister is one of my favorites. But... after about half-way thru the book, the charac...
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review 1: I didn't really have high expectations with this book, because I haven't been crazy about the last few books ive read by Dare. however, I was interested in Julian and lily's story. I love a relationship like theirs!Since when is lily 13th in line for the crown?! He has garters ha...
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review 1: So am a HUGE fan of Lisa Kleypas and her novels... but the one story I didn't seem to enjoy as much (and that EVERYONE seemed to love) was Devil in Winter, were a socially-awkward spinster and a devilish rake run away for a marriage of convince and elope in Scotland. In Devil in ...
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review 1: This book was up and down for me. It started out kind of slow. But the characters were so interestingly flawed I couldn't put it down. I was curious to see how they'd get to their happily ever after. I gave this 3 stars because the beginning would have gotten about 2 1/2 stars, b...
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review 1: 3.5 คือจริงๆเราว่าเรื่องนี้สนุกนะ การเริ่มต้นเรื่องทำได้น่าสนใจ แต่มันยังขาดอะไรบางอย่างไป พล็อตเรื่องลีโอที่โดนฆ่าเข้าใจว่าน่าจะไปเฉลยเล่มสุดท้ายที่เป็นเรื่องของจูเลี่ยนกับน้องสาวลีโอ เรื่องจะเน้นที่นางเอกที่รักน้องมากๆ แต่เราว่ามันขาดเสน่ห์ ประเด็นเด็กที่อยู่ในความดูแลของพระเอก...
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review 1: Instead of a 'spinster' finding true love, it is a rake. I loved all the facets of this story. Pauline' s sister, her love of books, and her undying determination. However, I do find the situation implausible. Cinderella stories rarely happen today much less then. You come to ...
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review 1: 3.7 Stars. 11/23/14. Public Library. It's been a while since I've read the Spindle Cove series so I don't remember Violet Winterbottom but I remember Spindle Cove and the other ladies in this short story. Like many of the ladies that find themselves in Spindle Cove Violet is a di...
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review 1: Three and half stars.Overall I would say I didn't like this as much as the first book in the Stud Club series – and BTW such a misleading series name!So, Rhys St Maur, Lord Ashworth, has inherited a ruined estate in Devonshire. He travels to visit the estate, with the full intent...
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review 1: เป็นเรื่องที่อ่านเรื่อยๆ จุดสำคัญของเรื่องอยู่ทีความกล้าของโซฟีเนียละเธออยากจะมีรักที่เร้าร้อน รักที่จริงจัง ก็เลยหนีการแต่งงานมา พอมาเจอคนดิบเถื่อนแบบเกรย์ก็เลยรู้สึกชอบและการที่ไม่มีใครรู้จักเธอเลย เธอเลยกล้าเต็มที่กับเกรย์
review 2: I LOVE Tessa Dare's writing. H...
review 2: I LOVE Tessa Dare's writing. H...
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review 1: A really cute, sweet, quick novella from Tessa Dare, her very first published work (I believe is what she said). Cecily has been in love with Luke for years but after a connection they shared the night before he left for war, there’s been little to know communication between them...
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review 1: Four years ago, Cecily and Luke were sweethearts. Then he went off to war, became a Hard Man, and returned to terrorize Cecily. Seriously, he's kind of an asshole. But then the mysterious werestag saves Cecily's life! WHAT WILL HAPPEN. Luke's mood switches, man! He's basically li...
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review 1: Absolutely delightful! Tessa Dare's debut novel, one that was written a gazillion years ago, and I can't believe I'm just getting to it. Historical romance is all about the heroes, but suffice to say, Lucy Waltham is on my favorites list.Jeremy Trescott, the Earl of Kendall is ro...
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review 1: Not my kind of story. But many like this.I read 130 pages and stopped. There was a lot of pondering one’s feelings, tempting each other with kisses, and descriptive writing. I just wasn’t interested in the characters or the set up. I was bored. Lucy loves Toby. Toby plans t...
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review 1: First, I must say that I loved Julian Bellamy since the first book. I was anticipating this story and it was worth the wait. I so love the connection and heat between Lily and Julian. The comfortableness between the two. He was not only her friend but her family even before they ...
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review 1: I wish I didn't love this book because romance novels in general embarass me, but Tessa Dare provided everything I hoped for in my first romance novel in 10 years. No cheap plot based on miscommunication or stubbornness that could be solved in a conversation that uses actual full...
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review 1: This was very fun! I enjoyed the characters very much, and the sex scenes were amazing! However, I felt that the language and setting of this book didn't fit together quite well. The dialogue was very modern, but the era is supposed to be the early 1800s, so it was confusing. In ...
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review 1: 4.5 stars. (Romance is graded on a curve.)Probably the most perfect Regency romance I've had the pleasure of reading so far. Not as silly or repetitive as others. With a little humor as an added bonus."That's absurd," he scoffed. "You're just begging to be taught a hard, fast les...
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review 1: I loved this book. Not since Kiss Me Annabel has there been such a loveable, plump, female character. Amelia D'Orsay likes food. While at a ball, ordinary 26 year old Amelia is inventing delectable recipes in her head, while the other young ladies await the Duke of Midnight. Am...
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review 1: It's was pure agony to get through the books but yes I did complete it. I always read in odder if it is a series but this book made me want skip to the third book...it was that bad...the book didn't feel like it was part of the stud club series. The first book was like a dream co...
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review 1: I get kind of silly and giddy when describing this book. It was that good. I mean: a pirate ship. Baaaaasically the hero is a pirate. Ok, retired privateer. Whatever: a pirate. The vast majority of the book is set on a ship sailing across the ocean. There is hot ship sex. Very. H...
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review 1: Sophia Hathaway, aka the runaway heiress, has resurfaced from the destruction she inevitably, though unintentionally, caused for her intended groom, Toby, at the conclusion of Goddess of the Hunt (read review here). It's only to procure a more permanent means of escape, however....
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review 1: Yes, I liked it, but I didn't loved it like the other Ms. Dare's books.Why?Because I thought Sophia lied too much about everything!I could understand the lies at the beginning when she didn't know Gray from Adam, but I hated her when she continued and kept on and on... even when ...
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review 1: I've read some of Dare's other books & enjoyed them. I just couldn't get into this one. Lots of skimming! I wanted to kick Mr. Nancy-pants (Toby) in the teeth. Bell was a walking/talking contradiction. She's run out of charitable causes, so she decides she's going to marry for a ...
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review 1: I found this book really disappointing, mostly because I found Isabel borderline insufferable. For all her so-called angelic goodness, she was completely selfish and very self-centered. She was a know-it-all and self-righteous and I spent half the book wanting to give her a good ...
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review 1: Really, I was so sick of the heroine. I gave up. The heroine was soooooo unlikable with all her saint-like ramblings about couldn't eat sugar unless it was from her brother's company because it was likely created by a slave labor. She forced Toby to enter the parliament despite h...
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review 1: Rafe insists that the marriage between Clio and his brother, Piers, go forth as planned...no matter that the engagement has lasted an unholy 8 years! Such utter devotion to big brother? Umm...there's some of that, certainly, but with Piers back in residence (you'll understand),...