The writing was good, but not brilliant. It was a more or less standard historical romance. It tried for more structure with including flashbacks into the past when the couple met first (both having been married at that time) and then back in the present both having lost their partner. There wer...
According to Goodreads this is my second reading of Scandal by Carolyn Jewel. Must have been just as good the second time around as the first. I totally enjoyed it. Ms Jewel has delivered a well written book. The characters are developed and make this story into a wonderful read. There is plenty of ...
OOOH! An angsty-historical. This was right up my alley. I like the idea of a lot of new-adult books a la extreme angst, that are so popular right now, but often times they drive me crazy with poor writing and terrible characters. I always get sucked into reading them because I love a tortured hero a...
Enjoyed this one a lot, and will definitely be re-reading it. Very appealing heroine - she's a writer of romances - and hero, although he has to change a **lot** in the book to become appealing. One drawback for me with this book was the organization. I found the flashbacks to 3 years previous to th...
The Earl of Banallt makes love like a pornstar...if pornstars were crafted with beautiful and provocative words, that is. That's not to say that this book is lurid - far from it, in fact. The love scenes are intimate and revealing. They're also so well-choreographed that I got the feeling that Banal...
My review contains spoilers and they're mostly my thoughts as I went with the book...This is what happens when I start a book with high expectations and end it with disappointments. I was really looking forward to Scandal but I’ve had so much mixed feelings about many issues, which just killed the f...
This book took me completely by surprise. I opened it up, not expecting much out of the ordinary and was completely swept away. It is beautifully written, with clean and evocative prose that pulls you into the world created by Carolyn Jewel. Her writing is haunting, melancholy and full of longing...
This is my first read of Carolyn Jewel, and I will seek out her other works. What a pleasant surprise this book was. The love story of Lord Banallt and Sophie Evans was a story I won't soon forget! The way Lord Banallt slowly let us see him, was different in a sigh worthy way.
I'm so angry with the rating system! I want to be able to include half points, because this one's so clearly a 4.5 for me that neither 4 nor 5 will do. But since a couple of things bugged me near the end, I couldn't convince myself to give it a 5 right now. This is an emotional, melancholy, angsty s...
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