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Highly Recommended Historical Romance Books

March 23, 2016 By Maryse 49 Comments

Talk of historical romance stories is plentiful here, and even though I am not well-versed in this genre, we have many fellow readers that absolutely LOVE and highly recommend ’em. I couldn’t help myself! I just had to compile the most talked about ones into a list.

After all, I’ve loved a few of ’em myself (haven’t we all, if we consider Outlander and The Bronze Horseman, just to name a few – I also read a few in Karen Marie Moning’s Highlander series – SO good!), and sometimes fun to take a break from our usual genre, and explore something completely different (and yet still, 100% romance). In fact, many of the heroes in these books will remind us of our own alpha-favorites. read more

Filed Under: Book Recommendations Tagged With: historical, historical romance, reader favorites

Reader Question – The historical romance book about the Hero wanting his wife to take care of his illegitimate child…

January 19, 2021 By Maryse 4 Comments

Hyslee is needs our book help! Whoa. This one sounds like it would be seriously tumultuous!! I’m not quite sure from this question if he cheated or is cheating (and if the heroine is the wife?), but obviously this one is loaded in marital strife.

She asks:

Hi Maryse!

I hope you can help me to find a book .

It’s actually a historical romance about hero is calling back his wife home to take care of his illegitimate son because the baby is sick and falling in love with heroine.

I hope you can find it for me. read more

Filed Under: Reader Questions Tagged With: historical romance, infidelity, marital strife, reader question, unsolved

What to Read After The Bridgerton Series…

December 31, 2020 By Maryse 4 Comments

<— This Netflix series (adapted from the original book series) is ALL THE RAGE right now and has taken our romance book lovers by storm! So I posted the series reading order (including the prequels-spinoff & novellas) so that we could devour them to our hearts content. But… we needed even more. πŸ˜‰ Hence this new list!

Jan: Wow. The Duke and I (Bridgerton) is currently #1 in amazon kindle Australia store. Book 2 is at number 4, and three of the other books are up there in the rankings too. It’s been a popular series of books ever since it came out, but the netflix series is obviously bringing it to a whole new group of readers. Yay for historical romance! read more

Filed Under: Book Recommendations Tagged With: historical romance, reader favorites, reader recommendations, regency era, Victorian era, What to read after

Julia Quinn – Bridgertons Series Reading Order

December 30, 2020 By Maryse Leave a Comment

<—Β THIS IS A HUUUUUUUGE HIT on Netflix right now, but was also a huge hit within our romance reading community! And since these books are pretty much climbing the Amazon charts as we speak (in fact, the first book is ranking at #2 on all of Amazon Kindle as I post this), I thought I’d post the reading order and include the HUGE LOVE for it from our fellow readers.

Jan: Wow. The Duke and I (Bridgerton) is currently #1 in amazon kindle Australia store. Book 2 is at number 4, and three of the other books are up there in the rankings too. It’s been a popular series of books ever since it came out, but the netflix series is obviously bringing it to a whole new group of readers. Yay for historical romance! read more

Filed Under: Reading Order Guide: Tagged With: books to movies, historical romance

Reader Question – At the end of “In Too Deep” in the Arcane Society series, does that particular storyline go anywhere?

December 28, 2020 By Maryse Leave a Comment

Shannon needs our book help, and since I haven’t read this series yet, I thought I’d open it up to our book crew.

It is such a popular series and I posted a reading order guide for it, that has TWO reading orders on it (the author’s reading order by publication date and the readers preferred reading order to go with the actual timeline – yep… it got confusing. πŸ˜‰ Tee hee!

So anyway, Shannon asks:

I stumbled on you page looking for the answer to a specific question that is driving me nuts! read more

Filed Under: Reader Questions Tagged With: historical romance, Jayne Ann Krentz, reader question, unsolved

Reader Favorites – Jan’s Top Ten Best Books of 2020 List

December 10, 2020 By Maryse 12 Comments

JAN’S LATEST FAVORITES LIST!!! 2020 has been a difficult year in many regards, but let’s focus on the good stuff!! Jan (from Australia!!) had plenty of happy and interesting Β “personal life” comments for us this year, often by way of our Monday ritual, “Three Things”.

So let’s get to know her better through her latest highlights of the year (P.S. OMG SHE IS MAKING ME HUNGRY!! She’s quite the busy baker… and I would LOVE to try her cooking): read more

Filed Under: Book Recommendations Tagged With: historical romance, Jans Favorites, reader favorites, reader recommendations, READERS BEST 2020

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This recent release is super-bargain priced today AND I have a fun feature about "Aquarius Men" πŸ˜‰ I LOVE IT!

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β€œWhat’s your sign?” *wink wink* πŸ˜‰ Here’s a brand new series featuring sexy heroes and their zodiac signs. Are they a match? Your match?

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UNREQUITED LOVE/LOVE AFTER LOSS ALERT! Does anyone have a guess for this one?

Reader Question – The book where she was in love with him, but he had a girlfriend, but then his girlfriend died…

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I'm reading Vi Keeland's "The Invitation" - okay confession time... who went to Ebay to find out if the used diary situation was true??

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This was a great book. And good to know about the diaries. That’s awesome

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