by Eva Leigh
Finally! 3.5Those book was an easy, entertaining read. I liked both characters. It was funny and steamy and exactly what I needed during this crazy time.
I feel like a curmudgeon but this had such a modern bent to it. The hero and heroine's views and conversations could have been ripped out of today's feminist issues and dialogues. From the heroine dressing as a man and seeing and feeling what power they are handed for simply being male, a man coming...
The book has zero genuine Regency atmosphere. The picture of the duck-face model on the cover is very unappealing, but I could get past it if the book itself was readable as a historically-set romance. Too bad.
Daniel Balfour, Earl of Ashford, marches into the offices of the Hawk's Eye, demanding to speak to the owner. He is surprised when he discovers that E. Hawke is not a man, as he was expecting, but a comely young woman named Eleanor. She owns, edits and is the head writer of the gossip paper, and the...