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I'm normally not a lover of contemporary romance, but I had recently read another book by the same author (The Seventh Circle, a mafia romance) which I absolutely loved, so I decided wanted to read more by him. And Unbound grabbed me from chapter one ...more
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This was a very enjoyable read for me. I was a bit sceptical at first, because of the trigger warnings given at the beginning of the book. It's a mafia romance, so I did expect violence (and there was plenty of that, the author really does not pull h ...more
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I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Let me preface this review with the fact that I'm not the target audience. I chose this book because I love regency romance and I like the premise of a marriage of c ...more
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I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. A short but sweet sapphic regency novella and a very quick read, more Bridgerton than Austen in tone. The story is simple and predictable, yet well written and fun no ...more
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Liskey wants to write a book, but tends to get distracted easily. So he takes a job on a remote planet, where he will be the only inhabitant for a year. At least, that's the plan. The problem is that his predecessor, a very grumpy guy named Venner, c ...more
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Unbound: An Enemies to Lovers MM Gay Romance About Breaking Free
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I'm normally not a lover of contemporary romance, but I had recently read another book by the same author (The Seventh Circle, a mafia romance) which I absolutely loved, so I decided wanted to read more by him. And Unbound grabbed me from chapter one ...more

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The Seventh Circle: A Forbidden Love MM Mafia Romance (The Lost Cantos Book 1)
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This was a very enjoyable read for me. I was a bit sceptical at first, because of the trigger warnings given at the beginning of the book. It's a mafia romance, so I did expect violence (and there was plenty of that, the author really does not pull h ...more

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The Duke's Sacred Vow: Historical Christian Romance (Brides of the Regency Book 1)
by Isabel Jacobs

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I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Let me preface this review with the fact that I'm not the target audience. I chose this book because I love regency romance and I like the premise of a marriage of c I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Let me preface this review with the fact that I'm not the target audience. I chose this book because I love regency romance and I like the premise of a marriage of convenience turning into a true love match. I kind of ignored the fact that it was also tagged as a Christian romance, because I thought it just meant it would be a "clean" romance without much spice (which it is, of course) and that would not have bothered me. I did not expect to be reminded of the fact that the heroine (and to a slightly lesser extend the hero) trust in the Lord in His wisdom in every other paragraph (and always with capital letters of course, like a TVangalist screaming it into his microphone). It got on my nerves pretty quickly, mostly because it just pulled me out of the story every single time. It's just something that a regency woman, even a pious one, would not have emphasized so much and so often. It broke the immersion for me again and again.

Apart from that, the writing is very nice, though. It flows well, with the right amount of description to root you in the period, but not losing itself in too much detail. The characters are lively and likeable and there is some undeniable chemistry between Annabel and Philipp from the start. They are both genuinely good people. I rooted for them and wanted things to turn out well for them. I also liked that even the "villain" in the story, gets a bit of a redemption arc.

There were a few things which struck me as a bit illogical. At the beginning of the story, Annabel heads off on horseback in the middle of the night to talk to the duke, whom she never met, in hope that he can help her get out of her engagement after her fiance betrayed her. Why on earth did she not just write a letter? The postal service in regency England was quite quick and reliable and people wrote letters all the time, even to total strangers (much more likely than just visiting them uninvited). It would have been a much more proper (and less inconvenient and dangerous) thing to do for a young lady. I mean, I understand that the whole story hinges on the two of them meeting in the way they do, but I found it highly illogical and not at all in tune with the time period.

Another thing that bothered me was that at one point Annabel lectures Philipp on how important it is to share feelings in a relationship and to talk openly to each other about them, and the very next chapter she does the complete opposite when she discovers something that is vitally important for her husband to know. Granted, she later does tell him, but only after fretting about it for an unnecessary amount of time (and an unnecessary amount of pages). I would have preferred more drama/obstacles from the outside here, instead of the only point of conflict (if you can even call it that) coming from lack of communication between two people who are so sensible and understanding in pretty much everything else.

The pacing was a bit on and off as well. The beginning of the story is a bit of a whirlwind, then once the both of them are married it pretty much grinds down to a halt and does not pick up pace again until the very end. I did quite enjoy the last 50 pages or so, when things finally resolved themselves, but I feel like the middle could have been a lot shorter without the story suffering from it at all.

All in all it is a nice, clean romance about two nice, clean people. I just could not stomach the Christian lingo, but that is more me choosing the wrong book for myself and not a flaw of the book itself. ...more

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by Anne Knight (Goodreads Author)

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A short but sweet sapphic regency novella and a very quick read, more Bridgerton than Austen in tone.

The story is simple and predictable, yet well written and fun no ...more

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Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
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Okay, I'm torn between "Thank god, it's over" and "Wow, what a fascinating story." It took me almost two weeks to read this book, which is long for me, especially for a book that contemporary readers considered an absolute page-turner. I had a hard t Okay, I'm torn between "Thank god, it's over" and "Wow, what a fascinating story." It took me almost two weeks to read this book, which is long for me, especially for a book that contemporary readers considered an absolute page-turner. I had a hard time getting into it at first, partly because nothing much happened in the beginning, but also because I had to get used to Radcliffes style and her overly complicated way of shoving way to many subclauses into one sentence.

But I got more and more intrigued the further I read on. From the reputation of the book, I had expected more typical gothic horror and fewer crazy plot-twists. But this is not a simple ghost story or a vampire gore fest. This is first and foremost the story of unhappy people who made bad decisions that come back to haunt them. Oh, and there's dead bodies and robbers and pirates and sword and gunfights galore. But they serve more as a backdrop to the stories that really count.

I think the book would make a good telenovela. The story is way too complicated and has too many characters and side-stories to reasonably fit into a movie or even a mini-series. That would break it. It is a story that, to develop its full potential, needs to be told exactly as Radcliffe tells it: slowly adding layer after layer of mystique and mystery, building a many skinned onion of tension that then, only in the last volume, slowly gets peeled open, revealing what's behind it all.

It's a book that does not gel with modern tastes very well, where everything has to be efficient, on-point and immediately gratifying. This book takes patience and devotion. But then the reward is fantastic. I absolutely understand why this book was so loved at a time when reading was for many people, especially many women, their main way of escapism, when there was no tv, no social media, no quick way to entertain yourself. And I also understand why it has fallen out of favor since. It's not an instant dopamine rush. Instead it is a slowly rising tide that only gets you fully submerged towards the end. ...more

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