![]() ![]() It’s been a while since I read Lord of Scoundrels, and although I know it’s a very highly regarded historical romance – it topped All About Romance’s top 100 Romances poll yet AGAIN last year – I’d forgotten just how good a book it is. Rating: A+ for content and A+ for narration The trouble is, the devil in question is so shockingly irresistible that the person who needs saving most is Jessica herself. If saving him – and with him her family and future – means taking on the devil himself, she won’t back down. ![]() ![]() Jessica Trent is a determined young woman, and she’s going to drag her imbecile brother off the road to ruin, no matter what it takes. ![]() She’s too intelligent to fall for the worst man in the world. He’s determined to continue doing what he does best – sin and sin again – and all’s going swimmingly…until the day a shop door opens and she walks in. No respectable woman would have anything to do with the “Bane and Blight of the Ballisters”, and he wants nothing to do with respectable women. Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, is big, bad, and dangerous to know. They call him many names, but angelic isn’t one of them. ![]()
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![]() Her father's a fine rogue and sometime smuggler. ![]() Jess Whitby grew up on the mean streets of the East End. Joanna Bourne continues to impress me with her creativity. Talking about My Lord and Spymaster: Sebastian Kennett is a self-made man - passionate, adventurous, and powerful a master trader and international shipper a man who'll risk everything for a profit. This is a novel of complexity, and there were times when it got so intense I wanted to put it down, but I couldn't. I'm very glad to have experienced it, but it wasn't an easy romance. The players in this one felt more real and the stakes were higher than the first two. The British intelligence gang is all here, and I loved seeing those characters again. But when he meets Jess, he finds himself falling hard for her. Raised as a poor but cunning pickpocket, Jess. Sebastian Kennett has his reasons for wanting to see Josiah Whitby hang. A daring beauty will risk everything for love in this thrilling romance in Joanna Bournes Spymaster series. She sets about using those skills, and her network of old connections, to ferret out the truth. ![]() Having spent her early life on the dangerous streets of London as a thief, she has skills that most young ladies do not. Jess Whitby's father, the owner of a shipping company, is accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, but she is determined to discover the real traitor and save her father from the gallows. If you're up for something deeper and more gritty than the usual, you might enjoy this. This one was a more intense than the first two books in this awesome series, but still very entertaining. ![]() ![]() ![]() You could go to the baker in the morning and buy two rolls for 20 marks but go there in the afternoon and the same two rolls were 25 marks. “My allowance and all the money I earned were not worth one cup of coffee. As Fergusson writes: “They picked upon other classes, other races, other political parties, other nations.” There was a long list of villains: “the greed of tourists, or the peasants, or the wage demands of labor, or the selfishness of industrialists and profiteers, or the sharpness of Jews or the speculators making fortunes in the money markets.”Įrna von Pustau, who lived through it, described what it was like: Germany became an ugly society, looking for blame. ![]() It’s hard to fathom.Īll this brought out the worst in people. ![]() As a practical matter, real prices were often a third higher. ![]() Butter went up 33-fold! And these were official prices. Sugar, milk, pork and potatoes went up 23-28-fold. In just eight years since 1913, the price of rye bread rose 13-fold. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's no princess, but he wants to marry her all the same-but how will she ever pass the terrible tests? Meanwhile, Nicholas has fallen in love with Lorelei, a mere blacksmith's daughter. So he devises a series of princess tests, designed to weed out the phonies and the fakes. ![]() But he must make sure the bride is a real princess. In The Princess Test, King Humphrey has decided its time for his son, Prince Nicholas, to marry. The fairy Ethelinda feels she's meted out justice just right-until she discovers Rosella has been locked up by a greedy prince and Myrtle is having the time of her life! Her punishment: Bugs and vipers slither out of her mouth. Her reward: Jewels and gems tumble out of her mouth whenever she speaks. In The Fairy's Mistake, two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity. Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted, her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. ![]() ![]() ![]() “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” ![]() The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan’s country at the End of the World. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Mizaz banished when he usurped the throne. The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. ![]() Narnia…the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst people, where anything can happen (and most often does)…and where the adventure begins. Few people outside of the writing community know how much blood, sweat, and tears go into crafting the perfect Opening Line and for that reason, I want to bring attention to the incredible work that a writer puts into these first few words. This is the blog where we dissect the opening sentences of popular works of fiction. ![]() |