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January 3rd, 2009 — , 3 Stars, 4 Stars, Barons and Baronets, Book Review, Covers, Eliza Doolittle, England, Farmer / Gentleman Farmer, Foster/Orphan, Friends, Julia Quinn, Regency, Virgin, barony, book hands, dancing at midnight, dowry, dunford, henrietta, heroine, kindness, lusty thoughts, midpoint, minx, mistress, pet name, pet names, plot twist, poor man, tomboy, truce from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Minx by Julia Quinn is the third book in the Blydon Series, following Splendid and Dancing at Midnight.
William Dunford inherits a barony out in Cornwall. He also inherits an unexpected ward, not that he knows this when he arrives. Henry, his ward, is a spunky hoydenish tomboy with a plan. She’s going to convince London [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: Minx by Julia Quinn Minx by Julia Quinn is the third book in the Blydon Series, following Splendid and Dancing at Midnight. William Dunford inherits a barony out in Cornwall. He also inherits an unexpected ward, not that he knows this when he arrives. Henry, his ward, is a spunky hoydenish tomboy with a......
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January 2nd, 2009 — , 3.5 Stars, Book Review, Comedy of Manners, Counts, Marquis, Viscounts, England, France, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, Kidnapping, Mistaken Identity, Regency, Secondary Romance, Virgin, consequences, devil, dominic, flummoxed, imdb, intercepts, marquis, novels, phrasing, regency novel, romance, scandal, silver screen, sister sophie, true nature, true spirit, tryst, vocabulary from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer is enchanting and will assuredly transport you to another world. Georgette Heyer, praised to be the new Jane Austen, was born in 1902 and her tales are quite old but hold the same classic feel as any one of Austen’s novels. I can picture the whole novel as a movie [...]
Related Websites - Review: Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer is enchanting and will assuredly transport you to another world. Georgette Heyer, praised to be the new Jane Austen, was born in 1902 and her tales are quite old but hold the same classic feel as any one of Austen’s novels. I can picture the......
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December 28th, 2008 — , 4.5 Stars, Book Review, Counts, Marquis, Viscounts, Divorced, England, Foster/Orphan, Handicap, Heiress, Julie Garwood, Native American, Queen or Princess, Regency, Scarred Hero, United States of America, Virgin, Warrior, Widow or Widower, banter, blue eyes, boob, dakotas, dead mother, diamond pin, far cry, fops, heroine, lioness, london society, marquess, scar, shaman, sister in law, sleeping bag, slippers, stupor, typical romance, white hair from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
I took great pleasure in reading this novel. It wasn’t a typical romance though it held many of the typical pieces you would find in a romance. Atypical you ask? Yes! The heroine for instance was raised by the Dakota, or Native American Indians. She had to return to England to pursue the rest of [...]
Related Websites - Review: The Lion’s Lady by Julie Garwood I took great pleasure in reading this novel. It wasn’t a typical romance though it held many of the typical pieces you would find in a romance. Atypical you ask? Yes! The heroine for instance was raised by the Dakota, or Native American Indians. She had to return to England......
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December 27th, 2008 — , 3.5 Stars, Book Review, Bride Stealing, Comedy of Manners, England, Highlander, Julie Garwood, Kidnapping, Rape, Scarred Hero, Scotland, Virgin, Warrior, alec, brief history, brotherhood, childhood home, closest friend, death bed, delightful combination, driving force, fabulous author, father and son, heroine, highlanders, household name, laird, mcalister, revenge plot, staple, tbr pile, young girl from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Julie Garwood is a staple, a household name, and Wedding is the first book of hers I ever read. Recommended to me by my closest friend, I came to the conclusion that it must go to the top of my TBR pile. I found the Wedding to be a delightful combination of bride stealing, tortured [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: The Wedding by Julie Garwood Julie Garwood is a staple, a household name, and Wedding is the first book of hers I ever read. Recommended to me by my closest friend, I came to the conclusion that it must go to the top of my TBR pile. I found the Wedding to be a delightful......
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December 27th, 2008 — , 5 Stars, Book Review, Dukes and Earls, England, Gambling, Georgian, Highlander, Rogues and Rakehells, Sailing, Scotland, Teresa Medeiros, Virgin, bastard son, bet, cliff hanger, cousin, cousins, devilish smile, disappointment, earldom, heir, hero, heroic actions, highland princess, legitimate son, novel, sibling, sixteen years, storms, tantrum, wescott from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Some Like it Wicked by Teresa Medeiros is truly an exceptional read. She’s done it again creating characters that I love and a story line that makes me laugh and close the book with a happy sigh. The sex was tantalizing, decadent, and sizzling hot. The end has a bit of a cliff hanger as [...]
Related Websites - Review: Some Like it Wicked by Teresa Medeiros Some Like it Wicked by Teresa Medeiros is truly an exceptional read. She’s done it again creating characters that I love and a story line that makes me laugh and close the book with a happy sigh. The sex was tantalizing, decadent, and sizzling hot. The end has a bit......
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December 26th, 2008 — , 4.5 Stars, Book Review, England, Gardening, Regency, Scarred Hero, Soldier, Suzanne Enoch, Virgin, being a gentleman, caliber, carroway, cheery disposition, different man, georgiana, heroic deeds, home from war, how to be a gentleman, lucinda, moth, moth to the flame, newcombe, nobleman, personal hell, separate lists, silent agony, snare, sweet nature from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
What makes a perfect hero? Is it his dashing good looks, his heroic deeds, or his charm? Third in the series Lessons in Love by Suzanne Enoch, England’s Perfect Hero, delves into the challenge of defining a hero.
Lucinda and her two best friends, Georgiana and Evelyn, create three separate lists on how to be a [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: England's Perfect Hero by Suzanne Enoch What makes a perfect hero? Is it his dashing good looks, his heroic deeds, or his charm? Third in the series Lessons in Love by Suzanne Enoch, England’s Perfect Hero, delves into the challenge of defining a hero. Lucinda and her two best friends, Georgiana and Evelyn, create three separate......
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December 24th, 2008 — , 2 Stars, Blind, Book Review, Dukes and Earls, England, Heiress, Historical Romance, Jude Deveraux, Kidnapping, Knight, Mistaken Identity, Virgin, axia, chemistry, debts, demeanor, devotion, dirt, distinct lack, earldom, fever, five stars, initial impressions, jumpstart, mediocrity, one eighty, stigmatized, tenets, transitions, twin sister from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
The Heiress by Jude Deveraux started off exceptionally well in my opinion but tapered off into mediocrity and stayed there after the jumpstart. It’s too bad that it did that as my initial impressions of the novel were four out of five stars. The editing felt choppy in the middle and was completely disconnected towards [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: The Heiress by Jude Deveraux The Heiress by Jude Deveraux started off exceptionally well in my opinion but tapered off into mediocrity and stayed there after the jumpstart. It’s too bad that it did that as my initial impressions of the novel were four out of five stars. The editing felt choppy in the middle......
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December 21st, 2008 — , Book Review, Jewish, News, amazon, boyfriend mark, bump on the head, carrie pilby, christmas carol, commitment phobia, consecutive nights, dates of hanukkah, eldest daughter, emma townsend, four sisters, hanukkah story, medieval france, meticulous research, nancy gardner, nikki heller, old flame, old flames, spirits of christmas, three novels from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Hanukkah began tonight at sundown. This is night one of eight consecutive nights. To celebrate, I have put together a collection of romances featuring strong Jewish characters, themes or written by Jewish women (or all three!). Those listed here are not an endorsement as I have not read them personally but they looked good and [...]
Related Websites - 8 Candles Lit for Hanukkah and Jewish Themed Romance Hanukkah began tonight at sundown. This is night one of eight consecutive nights. To celebrate, I have put together a collection of romances featuring strong Jewish characters, themes or written by Jewish women (or all three!). Those listed here are not an endorsement as I have not read them personally......
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December 19th, 2008 — , 3.5 Stars, 4 Stars, Book Review, Dukes and Earls, England, Farmer / Gentleman Farmer, Historical Romance, Kidnapping, Suspense/Thriller, Virgin, Widow or Widower, alpha male, amanda quick, amelia, dead wife, epitome, feathers, heir, julian, madness, match, novel, nymphomaniac, outrageous ideas, passion, realization, ribbons, seduction, sophisticated pieces, treatise on, turning the tables, widower from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
This lovely little book was a quick and delightful read. I was sad to finish it because it meant that I would have to let the leads Julian Ravenwood and Sophy Dorring go their own way. The novel starts out with Julian accepting Sophy’s refusal to marry him. The word was passed down to him [...]
Related Websites - Review: Seduction by Amanda Quick This lovely little book was a quick and delightful read. I was sad to finish it because it meant that I would have to let the leads Julian Ravenwood and Sophy Dorring go their own way. The novel starts out with Julian accepting Sophy’s refusal to marry him. The word......
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December 17th, 2008 — , 4.5 Stars, Book Review, Captain, England, Entrepreneur, Gaelen Foley, Regency, Sailing, South America, Stowaway, Virgin, amazon, back to england, black sheep, black sheep of the family, dandies, farraday, flaming hair, flirts, foley, fortune off, handsome town, insecurities, jack knight, jungles, little stowaway, miscellany, steamy romance, successful entrepreneur, tender moments, winds of fortune from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
His Wicked Kiss is the seventh installment of Foley’s Knight Miscellany series. The novel was quite exceptional from the steamy romance scenes, the tender moments, and the insecurities that flared between Eden and Jack. His Wicked Kiss flirts with the tried and true plot of what you thought you wanted and what you get.
Dr. Victor [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: His Wicked Kiss by Gaelen Foley His Wicked Kiss is the seventh installment of Foley's Knight Miscellany series. The novel was quite exceptional from the steamy romance scenes, the tender moments, and the insecurities that flared between Eden and Jack. His Wicked Kiss flirts with the tried and true plot of what you thought you wanted......
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December 15th, 2008 — , 3 Stars, Barons and Baronets, Book Review, Bride Stealing, Children, Hairy, Hannah Howell, Highlander, Kidnapping, Pregnant, Scarred Hero, Scotland, Virgin, Warrior, attentions, awe, beautiful woman, beauty and the beast, brute, disappointment, finer things in life, graceful body, inheritance, red devil, red hair, red knight, scars, second cousin, segments, soft brown eyes, thayer, true heir from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Beauty and the Beast by Hannah Howell is not a spectacular read. It is however a pretty solid read. I found several segments to be unnecessary and jumpy and predictable in others. This Highlander romance contains all the elements of the sub-genre including bride stealing, thwarted love, revenge plotting, and battle.
Thayer Saiturn is known as [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: Highland Barbarian by Hannah Howell Highland Barbarian by Hannah Howell is an exceptional romance novel. The love story is both captivating and highly amusing. A tale of a Lowlander (with Highlander blood in her veins) and a Highlander (whose warrior skills include brains), this is sure to be on your favorite shelf. With his Laird......
- Review: Beauty and the Beast by Hannah Howell Beauty and the Beast by Hannah Howell is not a spectacular read. It is however a pretty solid read. I found several segments to be unnecessary and jumpy and predictable in others. This Highlander romance contains all the elements of the sub-genre including bride stealing, thwarted love, revenge plotting, and......
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December 15th, 2008 — , About, Book Review, Contemporary, Harry Potter, High School, Paranormal, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, United States of America, Vampire, Werewolf, angel, buffy, cedric diggory, disbelief, hunk, love stories, movie theater, one lifetime, robert pattison, saga, timelessness, vampire romance from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
I’m devoting the next three days to the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer. When I first heard about this new teenage vampire romance I was skeptical. This is probably because my favorite vampire/human duos from other fandoms do not work out. For instance, Angel left Buffy after three seasons and then the series creator and [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Outside of the fact that twilight is one of my favorite times of day, I was intrigued by an article in our paper a couple of weeks ago or so mentioning this author and her books. There was something about the fact that one of her books outsold one of......
- Fantasy with a Dash of Romance "Every age embraces the vampire it needs," said Mike Deloney. Read on here. The Top 3 Young Adult Books From 2008: in no particular order... Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (vamps), Brisingr by Christopher Paolini (dragons), Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling (wizards). What this means: While it's......
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December 12th, 2008 — , 3 Stars, Book Review, Children, Counts, Marquis, Viscounts, Regency, Sabrina Jeffries, Teacher, Virgin, anthony dalton, becoming parents, dead brother, eunice, headmistress, lascivious behavior, madeline, niece, partying, poor tess, rakehell, respectability, rogues, simpleton, stable home life, strong spirits, virtu, viscount, widows from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Let Sleeping Rogues Lie is as scintillating as the title sounds rolling off the lips. Sabrina Jeffries weaves a tale of deception, half-truths, and omission. Sordid pasts litter throughout the story, many alongside the main characters, and a few directly related to the main characters. The only thing to watch out for is the mention [...]
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December 12th, 2008 — , 4 Stars, Book Review, Breaking Dawn, Children, Contemporary, High School, Pregnant, Stephenie Meyer, United States of America, Vampire, Werewolf, alice, amazon, bruises, buzz, doorstep, four stars, freaks, funk, furniture, honeymoon, jacob, mail, many things, novel, pregnancy, rosalie, scene fades, seduction, sexy lingerie from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
I was very excited to get my Breaking Dawn in the mail from Amazon. They managed to get it to me one day before they told me that it would arrive on my doorstep and I devoured the novel, all 700+ pages, in two days, which is consistent with how I’ve read the other three [...]
Related Websites - Breaking Dawn, Midnight Release Parties Friday night of last week, fans of the teenage vampire romance by Stephenie Meyer gathered at bookstores for the release of Breaking Dawn, the fourth installment of the Twilight Saga. They were dressed as characters in the books, as vampires in general and in particular as Edward and Bella. Several......
- Review: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (with spoilers) I was very excited to get my Breaking Dawn in the mail from Amazon. They managed to get it to me one day before they told me that it would arrive on my doorstep and I devoured the novel, all 700+ pages, in two days, which is consistent with how......
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December 11th, 2008 — , 5 Stars, Book Review, Bride Stealing, Children, Counts, Marquis, Viscounts, Eloisa James, England, Handicap, Headaches, Heiress, Historical Romance, India, Plump/Endowed Heroine, Scarred Hero, Virgin, alpha male, alpha males, antitheses, dressmakers, duchess, erskine, gabrielle, gisle, great disappointment, half brother, loving kind, male character, quill, repetitive motions, riding horses, right off the bat, safe from harm, stealing the bride, viscount from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Book three of the Pleasures Trilogy staring plump little Gabrielle from India and Erskine (Quill) Dewland soon to be Viscount Dewland. Right off the bat, this was my kind of book and I loved reading every word. I’ll tell you why:
First, the alpha male is one of those wounded and brooding alphas. Quill was [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: Enchanting Pleasures by Eloisa James Book three of the Pleasures Trilogy staring plump little Gabrielle from India and Erskine (Quill) Dewland soon to be Viscount Dewland. Right off the bat, this was my kind of book and I loved reading every word. I’ll tell you why: First, the alpha male is one of those wounded......
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December 8th, 2008 — , 3 Stars, Book Review, Cursed Lead, England, Gwen Rowley, Knight, Magic Users, Medieval, Warrior, aislyn, arthur and guinevere, canterbury tales, contempt, courtiers, dismay, encha, heart and soul, heart leap, king arthur, king arthur and guinevere, knights of the round table, old crone, ridicule, rowley, scorn, sir gawain, true identity, wife of bath, young knight from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
The story of Gawain and Aislyn is one told before in the Canterbury Tales (The Wife of Bath’s Tale) under different names. Gwen Rowley remakes it in Knights of the Round Table: Gawain. Where the original had the knight rape a lovely young maiden and sentenced before King Arthur and Guinevere into solving a riddle [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: Knights of the Round Table: Gawain by Gwen Rowley The story of Gawain and Aislyn is one told before in the Canterbury Tales (The Wife of Bath's Tale) under different names. Gwen Rowley remakes it in Knights of the Round Table: Gawain. Where the original had the knight rape a lovely young maiden and sentenced before King Arthur and......
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December 8th, 2008 — , 4 Stars, Book Review, Edith Layton, England, Fey / Fae, Historical Romance, Paranormal, Scotland, ashford, aubrey, bespelled, bet, brown eyes, brown locks, consequences, decade, earth, eve, faraday, intention, joke, manners, pocket venus, punch line, skepticism, sweet romance, train of thought, wits from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
When London’s best catch of the season - nay the decade - singles you out from across a crowded ballroom you would probably look over your shoulder for the season’s beauty. This is exactly was Eve Faraday does, because there is no way on earth any man would ever single her out. She wasn’t ugly, [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: Bride Enchanted by Edith Layton When London's best catch of the season - nay the decade - singles you out from across a crowded ballroom you would probably look over your shoulder for the season's beauty. This is exactly was Eve Faraday does, because there is no way on earth any man would ever single......
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December 8th, 2008 — , 2.5 Stars, Book Review, Children, Dukes and Earls, Egypt, England, Historical Romance, Pirate, Politican, Rogues and Rakehells, Secondary Romance, Victoria Alexander, Widow or Widower, air time, couples, fortune, fortunes, french letter, guise, intention, intrigue, last ten years, loyalty, offspring, perfect wife, politician, propriety, sabrina, son nicholas, winfield, wyldewood from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
The Perfect Wife by Victoria Alexander follows not one but three couples on their journey to love. Luckily two are more peripheral and have overall less air time in the novel. The main couple is Sabrina Winfield and Nicholas, Earl of Wyldewood. The other couples are Sabrina and Nicholas’ offspring from their first marriage, and [...]
Related Websites - Review: The Perfect Wife by Victoria Alexander The Perfect Wife by Victoria Alexander follows not one but three couples on their journey to love. Luckily two are more peripheral and have overall less air time in the novel. The main couple is Sabrina Winfield and Nicholas, Earl of Wyldewood. The other couples are Sabrina and Nicholas’ offspring......
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December 8th, 2008 — , 2.5 Stars, 3 Stars, Another Planet/Dimension, Book Review, Enemies, Erotica, Paranormal, Stella and Audra Price, Succubus, audra, compatriots, distraction, dragon, dragons, edict, elementals, erotic moments, fire demons, fire dragon, fire dragons, king of fire, masquerade party, naked mole rats, paramours, penguins, sexual preference, strip club, yellow dragon from Keira @ Love Romance Passion
Fire in His Eyes is the first book of the Dragon Elementals in Stella and Audra Price’s Eververse. A complicated web of Afterverse and the real world, Eververse will introduce you the paranormal.
Char is the last of the reigning fire dragons and he has found his mate. He can’t do anything about it because [...]
Online Stores Related Websites - Review: Fire in His Eyes by Stella and Audra Price Fire in His Eyes is the first book of the Dragon Elementals in Stella and Audra Price’s Eververse. A complicated web of Afterverse and the real world, Eververse will introduce you the paranormal. Char is the last of the reigning fire dragons and he has found his mate. He can’t......
- Dragon Statues Antiques -> Asian -> Statues Many ancient cultures have their own dragon myths, some that are traced back as far as 4000 BC, but the ancient Chinese believed that dragon statues represented a creature that symbolized strength and good fortune. Other cultures saw dragons as rather wicked and dangerous creatures......
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December 7th, 2008 — , 4.5 Stars, Book Review, Children, England, Historical Romance, Kings, Princes, Sheiks, Lisa Kleypas, Queen or Princess, Russia, Scarred Hero, Time Travel,