Published 6^th August 2015

Paperback Original | £7.99

 

1786: Regency London.

Everyone is hiding something.

But someone is hiding everything.

 

A love story of surpassing power and imagination, this is a stunning new British voice in Historical romance for fans of Eloisa James, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Laurens and Georgette Heyer

 

Lizzy Warden, a fallen woman meets Lord Hayes and he hires her to be his companion for a week after spending a night together.  She is looking for a way out of her situation and he wants a female companion whiles he makes business in London to stop every matchmaking women to find him a wife.

While Lizzy is pretending to be Hayes companion is she also learning how to be a proper lady.  But as the week goes by they seem to come to care a great deal about each other. But Lizzy has sworn never to be a married man's mistress and she knows that they are not a match made in heaven. Will the social obstacles be too much for them?

 

I loved the cover. I loved its simplicity and its beauty and I'm really grateful that it's not one of those couple coves with a man with an open shirt and a woman in his arms. It's so gorgeous, I could frame it and hang it on my wall.

Another thing I really loved with the book was that there is no graphic sex scenes in it. There are sex scenes of course, Lord Hayes has hired Lizzy for a week and not only for going to events with. But not four pages of detailed sex. It's more like let's go to bed and then everything fades to black. I was so pleased about that, it made the reading experience so much better. I

Masquerade is like a mix of Pygmalion and Pretty Woman. A fallen woman that is getting a chance to act as a proper lady and gets a happy ending. 

I liked the relationship between Lizzy and Lord Hayes. Lizzy was not an innocent little girl, she is a street girl, her life ruined by a man that promised her a good life and then destroyed it and she had to face the fact that she would never be a proper married women. Lord Hayes is a man who grew up with a brutal father and a loving mother and he has had to try to be the man his father never was. He is trying very hard to take care of his mother and his property and should in the end chose a wealthy girl to marry. But then Lizzy came into his life and as the week goes by they seem to care more and more for each other. 

The drawback for me while reading the book was that it was predictable, but that can be nice also if that is what you want. I personally like my romance books to have some elements of surprise in them. But that's me.

I recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a good historical romance! 

 

 

Joanna Taylor is a best-selling cross-category author, who has sold over 200,000 books. She teams fiction writing with a successful and award-winning journalism career, working for The Times and the Mirror in London, UK. Her first adult romance, Spotlight, became an Amazon bestseller, and Joanna ranks in the top ten adult-romance writers on Amazon.

 

Thank you Piatkus for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!

 

 

Published 6^th August 2015

Paperback Original | £7.99

 

1786: Regency London.

Everyone is hiding something.

But someone is hiding everything.

 

Lizzy Ward never meant to end up working the streets of Piccadilly. So when a mysterious noble pursues her, it seems her luck is changing. But though Lord Hays offers to grow Lizzy's fortunes, his price is unexpected. She must masquerade in the sumptuous gowns and social mask of a true lady.

With the stakes so high, love is out of the question. But as Lizzy navigates the fashion and faux-pas of the London elite, she finds her tough facade failing her. Lord Hayes wants to show her that nobility is more than skin deep. . . and as the connection between them grows, it's no longer certain who's wearing the mask. As the street-girl and the lord collide. Regency London is poised for scandal . . .

 

To people reading romance but don't want to read fantasy. Romance is fantasy, hell it's sometimes more fantasy than fantasy is (yes I know it's sounds strange). But at least in fantasy the romance can be natural, instead of these fairy dreams with living happily ever after...poppycock!

That out of the way will I just say that I do enjoy this book. It's like a mix between Pygmalion and Pretty Woman. I just have to stop question things then it's alright to read...

Masquerade - Joanna Taylor Lizzy Warden, a fallen woman meets Lord Hayes and he hires her to be his companion for a week after spending a night together. She is looking for a way out of her situation and he wants a female companion while he makes business in London to stop every matchmaking women to find him a wife.

While Lizzy is pretending to be Hayes companion is she also learning how to be a proper lady. But as the week goes by they seem to come to care a great deal about each other. But Lizzy has sworn never to be a married man's mistress and she knows that they are not a match made in heaven. Will the social obstacles be too much for them?

I loved the cover. I loved its simplicity and its beauty and I'm really grateful that it's not one of those couple covers with a man with an open shirt and a woman in his arms. It's so gorgeous, I could frame it and hang it on my wall.

Another thing I really loved with the book was that there are no graphic sex scenes in it. There are sex scenes, of course, Lord Hayes has hired Lizzy for a week and not only for going to events with. But not four pages of detailed sex. It's more like let's go to bed and then everything fades to black. I was so pleased about that, it made the reading experience so much better. I

Masquerade is like a mix of Pygmalion and Pretty Woman. A fallen woman that is getting a chance to act as a proper lady and gets a happy ending.

I liked the relationship between Lizzy and Lord Hayes. Lizzy was not an innocent little girl, she is a street girl, her life ruined by a man that promised her a good life and then destroyed it and she had to face the fact that she would never be a proper married woman. Lord Hayes is a man who grew up with a brutal father and a loving mother and he has had to try to be the man his father never was. He is trying very hard to take care of his mother and his property and should in the end chose a wealthy girl to marry. But then Lizzy came into his life and as the week goes by they seem to care more and more for each other.

The drawback for me while reading the book was that it was predictable, but that can be nice also if that is what you want. I personally like my romance books to have some elements of surprise in them. But that's me.

I recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a good historical romance!

Thank you Piatkus for providing me with a free copy for an honest review!