HistoricalRomance

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

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kspenmoll

Dark Fires | Rosemary Rogers

March stats. Total:27 books
Row 1: Buddy reads & Kindle #sundaybuddyread #foodandlit #Ireland #bookedintime #Irishfamine #CrosswickJournals #MadeleineLEngle #studentbuddyread #readyourkindle
R2: #memoir #poetry #MatthewShardlake #DIBanks #IcelandicMystery
R3:#CommissarioBrunetti #RoyalSpynessMystery #Bookinabook #MartiniClub #GideonOliverMysteries
R4: #LaneWinslow
R5: #Spyness #PatrikHedstromMysteries #audiobooks #serieslove2025 #Storygraph

TheBookHippie, Librarybelle, Andrew65, TheSpineView, CBee, dabbe

dabbe Wowza! You are awesome! 🤩 20h

Librarybelle Incredible! Congratulations on a great reading month! 20h

Bookwormjillk Looks like a good reading month! 12h

TheBookHippie 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 9h

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kspenmoll

The Metropolitan Affair: On Central Park #1 | Jocelyn Green

Hectic crazy morning, meetings, teaching, & as is often the case, the totally unexpected pops up. Finally, a lunch time breather with coffee and a book. 🍕☕️ 📖

julieclair All hail the #BookAndCoffeeBreak ! 1d

Lesliereadsalot Great cover! I‘m a sucker for all things art deco. 1d

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julesG

Empire of Shadows | Jacquelyn Benson

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I ran through those two books at the weekend and wanted shelf trophies. The next book in the series is expected late 2025.

#SeriesLove2025 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks These are gorgeous covers 💛 2d

TheSpineView I would buy those on the cover alone! Score! 2d

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LibrarianRyan

Up All Night with a Good Duke: Volume 1 of The Byronic Book Club Series | Amy Rose Bennett

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4⭐This is a pretty typical romance novel. I did listen to this as an audiobook and will say that I did not care for the reader. They grew on me, but if it wasn‘t for the topic of book banning in the very beginning I might not have finished this book. In it, we have Artemis Jones who is a school teacher. She‘s also a spinster and firmly on the shelf at 29. She doesn‘t want to get married. She instead wants to start a college and educate young women

LibrarianRyan She‘s also an author of gothic romance novels. She quite literally run into Dominic Winters, the Duke of Dartmore in the rain and they share a moment. The story progresses from there. Much of the story is predictable. Not 100% predictable but still predictable. And while overall, the story was exactly what one wants when they pick up a book like this there were some annoyances that give romance novels a bad name. First off, the euphemisms. 2d

LibrarianRyan . I never again want to hear about a love truncheon. The author spends so much time on cliché language and euphemisms that this book is too long. This audiobook was 12 hours long and could have easily been nine or 10. A lot of that time was taken up with these clichés and euphemisms that didn‘t need to be there. The author could also do with a little less description. One or two ways to describe things are fine. We don‘t need a giant list. This is 2d

LibrarianRyan the first book in a series, and it feels like a first book. Overall, the book was decent and good, but the author needs a bit more help. I do want to read, whichever book is next in the series, but I am happy to be taking a break. 2d

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CarolynM

Frederica: A funny and brilliant clean Regency romance | Georgette Heyer

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This has been my handbag book over the last few weeks. It is a lot of fun, particularly the antics of Frederica's younger brothers, & I enjoyed the romance too. I can see why it's a lot of people's favourite Heyer, but it hasn't replaced The Grand Sophy in my affections.

LeahBergen I still like The Grand Sophy a bit better, too. 😄 2d

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xicanti

Strong Wine | A.J. Demas

Doing the whole “early to bed with book & mood lamp” thing. I read and loved the first 25% of STRONG WINE last night, but today was so busy that this is the first chance I‘ve had to get back to it. Gonna try for 50% before I pass out. #MFMarch

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Love this 💗 2d

xicanti @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks mood lamps are important. 2d

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mariaku21

It Happened One Season | Mary Balogh, Stephanie Laurens, Candice Hern, Jacquie D'Alessandro

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It's been some time since I read an anthology and this was on my TBR.
The premise to use a single trope, in this case of the older brother and heir in a pickle because their wives can no longer have kids and they're left with daughters so they turn to their younger brothers to force them to marry and beget children ASAP, was interesting because same basic trope and each author had a different way of making it happen and I was here for that!

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