by Christina Brooke
A misunderstood hero, who's ugly past keeps sticking to him like glue and a somewhat stiff and proper heroine who isn't easy to like. For me, that makes for interesting reading. So we have a puppet master, the Duke of Montford. He has "collected" orphan children of kins over the years and then se...
A huge cluster fuck of misunderstandings and bullshit. The story line had promise but all of the over blown stuff that happened drove me nuts. The male lead especially - just ticked me off. He blew everything so far out of proportion. I kept waiting for him to grab his blankie and suck on his thumb....
It started out really promising, but kind of lost me on the will and the marriage of convenience.
When I see a book, my first thought is always whether or not it is a part of a series. If it is, and I am interested in it, I will usually not read it, but will go back and read the beginning of the series. For one thing, I hate being caught in the middle of the story not having all the necessary fa...
When the Ministry of Marriage arranges a match, all that matters is power, wealth, and prestige. In the business of marriage, there is no room for love. But even the most prudent plans can go awry. Jane, Lady Roxdale, has endured one marriage of convenience decreed by the Ministry of Marriage. While...
Just couldn't get into it. The hero had promise, but I couldn't understand his lust for the heroine at that point in the story at all. Her husband has just been buried, she's in deepest mourning, they've both sustained huge shocks during the reading of the will, and she's behaving like a pill toward...