Following my heart, one book at a time...
YAY!!!!!! Finally!
I’ve received some adamant recommendations for Judith McNaught‘s historical romance reads (not just for “best historical” but for some of the BEST love stories altogether – and she also writes contemporary romance). She’s HUGELY popular, and considered one of the best-of-the-best in this genre. For any of us (me included) that wanted to delve into historical love stories, SHE is one of the main authors that everyone seems to direct us to!
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.
Okay well… the blurb for this one makes it sound like my ultimate, intense, crazy, thrilling romance read!!!!! I don’t even know if it’s romance, either, but for SURE it’s a love story. Or an anti-love story? I dunno. I DO know that it was the “answer” to a reader question post recently. The book about the young king that keeps killing his wives, and the girl that volunteers to be his next. 
*gasp*!!! I hear it’s amazing!!
Carlotta: Hi Maryse! I read this book a few months ago….is fantastic! I recommend it to everybody!!!
M/M ROMANCE LOVERS ALERT!!! bev got some of our reading crew into this trilogy BIG time. And now a few of ’em are rocking back and forth in the corner just waiting for #3 to be released (by the way… it’s releasing at midnight). 😀 Tee hee!!!
I have a feeling some will be pulling all nighters. 😉 And I think these are M/M historical fantasy.
bev: When i read them they were Captive Prince Vol.1 & Captive Prince Vol. 2 by S.U. Pacat. Now it’s Captive Prince & Prince’s Gambit by C.S. Pacat. When I read them I think they were indie and now it looks like they are under Berkley. Price jump too. Ouch. A few blogs I read went crazy over them. I ended up reading them pretty much back to back in one sitting…. I’m going to re read the first 2 in Jan. They are pretty intricate and a bit dark. …They are so very very good ladies. Really.
This reader question had quite an eyebrow raising description that it had so many in our crew giggling and following to find out what book it could possible be. And when a guess came through (only one so far… so the “guess the book” game is still on) there was a lot of one-clicking going on. 😉
Maryse: Lisa needs our book help!! Does anyone know this one?
Here’s the whole question:
“Hi Maryse. I’m hoping you can help me find which book this is. I appreciate any help you can offer. This is a Historical. I think taking place in London.