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Regency
Jill Barnett - Bewitching : The MacLean is the head Scottish witch who decides that Joy the
terribly inept witch is just what Alec, who can be a real pain in the Duke of Belmore when he wants to be,
needs!
Many hilarious examples of just how bad at witchcraft she is later, Alec forbids her to cast any more spells, but
she can’t help herself and he gets terribly angry.
Alec finally realises that he loves Joy after she runs off into a blizzard, but it is too late because The MacLean
has decided that he is not worthy of Joy and takes her away. Alec finally convinces the MacLean that he loves her, and they
live happily ever after.
A wonderful, laugh-out-loud Regency that was very touching.
(Lissa)
Jill Barnett - Dreaming : Letitia is so unbelievably clumsy that you just have to laugh even
though I cried at her pain of being desperately lonely, and so very in love with the handsome but disreputable Richard who
thinks she is truly a pest.
Her clumsiness gets them both kidnapped by a ring of smugglers, she accidentally sets the ship on fire, shoots
him, he nearly drowns trying to save her dog, and unknowingly traps him into marriage by way of having spent so much time
alone with him.
She truly believes he is her knight in shining armour, and in the end, so he is.
One of these rare books that really sucked me into the characters and had me laughing and crying and ignoring the
washing up to finish it.
The book follows Bewitching and is (I think) better, but if you are going to read them both, then they should be
read in order.
(Lissa)
Loretta Chase - Lord of Scoundrels : Fellow readers not so long ago I went looking for book and
only had a brief idea of what I wanted - it had to be light and easy to read with humour and emotional, it had to hook me
from the start and of course be historical and I found all this in Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrel. Loretta's tale of
'Beauty & the Beast' had me from the first, its a tale which flows with just the right amount of humour and villainy.
Commencing with an emotional prologue of our Beast's misunderstood Mother, a Father who you would just love to hate and our
Beast's sole destroying childhood emotionally crippling schooling and his early introduction to debauchery.
Loretta gives our Beast, Sebastian, great intelligence but of course no understand our Beauty, a ready wit which
he exercises regularly, arrogance and a hard won knowledge that anything has a price and of course no apparent morals. His
comment of ”Women don't have a sense of humour, they don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men.
From which one may logically deduce that the Almighty is a female” which our lackwited Bertie, Beauty's brother just has to
repeat to her and sets a fire under our Beauty and our knowledge that their at their first meeting and some sparks will
fly.
Our Beauty Jess is highly intelligence, has wonderful understanding of boys and Beasts and her independent nature
and beauty ensures she is still receiving and declining marriage proposals even though she of a certain age and “will be
hanged if she marry and play brood mare to a rich titled oaf”. However her immediate problem is how to wean Bertie away
from Sebastian sorry example whilst keeping her reputation in tact.
You will love how Loretta brings together our volatile couple and how she weaves a tale involving antiques,
ruination reputations, our hero being shot (of course Jess is the one handling the firearm) and his nerves on their wedding
night and Jess's subsequent seduction of Sebastian and her discovery of his illegitimate child and how Jess brings together
the tortured Father and Son and their triumph over the inept blackmailer.
So curl up in your most comfortable chair, disconnect your phone, lockup the husband/kids/animals so that you can
have a uninterrupted read. As I know once you start to read Loretta's tale you won't be able to bring myself to put it
down.
(Lynnette)
Jo Goodman - Let Me Be The One :
North, South, East and West – Ladies, meet the Compass Club!!! Jo Goodman does a fabulous job with her first
book in a stunning new Regency series, The Compass Club. Amid the frivolity of a weekend in the country, the Earl of
Northam meets the mysterious Libby Penrose who holds a dark secret apart from being the cat burglar terrorising the Ton
this summer. Madcap friends will make you tear with laughter – watch out for South!! And stay tuned because the second book
in this series, Everything I Ever Wanted, coming in March is his story.
I couldn’t put this down and hated every interruption!! You’ll love these guys and Libby is just perfect!
(Eleanor)
Eloisa James - Potent Pleasures : A lovely Regency novel by a wonderful new author. James’s first
book in her Pleasures series is full of scandal, lost virtue, plunging necklines and dishy Heroes.
Charlotte begins her first Season by unceremoniously loosing her virginity at a Cyprian’s Ball before she is out,
to … apparently… a very handsome footman!
Three years later Charlotte has become a reigning beauty as well as an accomplished painter and catches the eye of
her dashing footman, who turns out to be the Earl of Sheffield and Downes. But Alex doesn’t remember Charlotte at all, and
to make it more interesting, Alex thinks that Charlotte met his identical twin brother Patrick!!
James’s has a wonderful command for the Regency period, I was not disappointed and gulped the second book and have
started the third. These books are full of wonderful Regency families, passionate heroines and deliciously tortured heroes.
There is love, laughter, damp petticoats and wonderful, wonderful scandals!!!
If you like Stephanie Lauren’s Cynster series and Georgette Heyer’s romances, here’s a perfect combination of
both.
(Eleanor)
Katie MacAlister - Noble Intentions : A truly joyful Regency romp featuring the slightly clumsy Gillian, who falls for the supposed wife-murderer, Noble
the Black Earl at first sight. They marry a few days later and spend the rest of the book going from one funny scene to
another trying to protect each other from the rather inept murderer while (of course) he falls in love with her.
There are many scenes where very clever plays on words made me chuckle and others like the scene where Gillian
finds her Lord of Kisses tied up naked on his ex-mistresses bed with a broken man part set of a round of giggles that
lasted for 4 pages. I was actually crying with laughter over the scene with the villain Earl who mistakenly believes
Gillian’s butler’s name to be crotch and the confusion that ensues when he tries to get her butler to stop her dogs
sniffing his crotch………
Next time you are in, have a read of the first page of this book. If you crack a smile, then buy the book, because
I guarantee that you will laugh out loud and be unable to put it down because you just have to find out what she does and
says next!
Another rare all-night read I thoroughly enjoyed.
(Lissa)
Three Nights - Debra Mullins : To honour her father’s gambling debt, Aveline agrees to spend
three nights with Lucien DuFeron, and submit to his every desire. The time goes too quickly for both, but when the debt has
been paid, Lucien goes back to London where he is kidnapped a few days later and sold onto a ship.
Five years later, a very angry Lucien returns for revenge, but instead goes searching for the woman he has not
been able to forget. An equally angry Aveline has a surprise for him, but because he thinks she betrayed him and he hurt
her terribly, their marriage of convenience is not happy, but they eventually find the truth and their love.
This is an excellent story, fast moving with well developed characters, more than the usual amount of very well
written intimate moments, and a villain that you may not guess.
(Lissa)
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