Category: Historical

Review: In the Market for Murder by T.E. Kinsey

In The Market For Murder (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #2) by T.E. Kinsey narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Historical Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance Blurb: Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention […]

Posted August 1, 2023 by Lola in Historical, Mystery, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Peacock and the Wallflower by Laura Greenwood

The Peacock and the Wallflower (The Shifter Season #2) Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Historical Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Esther’s expectations from the Season are low, even if her parents seem intent on controlling every aspect of it, including who she might marry. Peacock shifter Laurence has grown tired of the attention being one of the most desirable catches of the marriage market and wants nothing more than to be left in peace. When the two of them enter a fake courtship with the intention of taking attention away from them, they […]

Posted July 26, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: The Fox and the Viscount by Laura Greenwood

The Fox and the Viscount (The Shifter Season #1) Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: When Victoria runs into her childhood friend and fellow fox shifter, Edmund, at a society event, she finds herself engaging in a scandalous wager over which of the two will secure an engagement first. Even with a suitable suitor calling on her, she can’t help but be drawn back to her friend’s side, and they soon find themselves in a compromising situation with only one way out of it. Can they resist the […]

Posted April 27, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 1 Comment

Review: The Otter and the Officer by Laura Greenwood

The Otter and the Officer (The Shifter Season #5) Laura Greenwood My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Paranormal Historical Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Georgiana believed she’d marry Henry since the day she understood what it meant. But when he goes away to war, she watched that dream slip away. After two years away, Henry returns to find Georgiana engaged, and that winning her back might not be as easy as he first thought. Can the two otter shifters find a way back to one another? – The Otter and the Officer is a paranormal Regency romance […]

Posted April 19, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: The Swan and The Rake by Laura Greenwood

The Swan And The Rake (The Shifter Season #4) by Laura Greenwood My Rating: 3 stars Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: Miss Letitia Swanley has no intention of marrying just yet, but that doesn’t stop her from getting swept into the arms of a handsome swan shifter. Lord Philip Cygnus knows he has a duty to his father’s earldom, but isn’t ready to settle down. When the two of them are caught in a compromising position, they have no choice but to marry. And now that they have, can the two swan shifters […]

Posted January 24, 2023 by Lola in Fantasy, Historical, Review, Romance / 4 Comments

Review: Snowstorms and Sleigh Bells by Kelley Armstrong

Snowstorms & Sleigh Bells (A Stitch in Time #2.5) by Kelley Armstrong My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Historical Romance/ Time Travel Romance Age Category: Adult Type of romance: MF Blurb: It’s a Victorian Christmas at Thorne Manor, and Rosalind Courtenay is staying far, far away from the door that leads to the twenty-first century. It took her four years to get back home, and she’s never going near the time stitch again. But her five-year-old son has other plans, and Rosalind finds herself plunged back into the modern world, where she decides to face her fears and give her family […]

Posted December 23, 2022 by Lola in Historical, Review, Romance / 2 Comments

Review: A Quiet Life in the Country by T.E. Kinsey

A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #1) by T.E. Kinsey and narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden My Rating: 4 stars Genre: Historical Cozy Mystery Age Category: Adult Type of romance: no romance so far Blurb: Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they’ve just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There’s a dead body in the woods, […]

Posted July 20, 2022 by Lola in Historical, Mystery, Review / 0 Comments