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Wrapped

Book Review: Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury

By On June 30, 2011 · 7 Comments · In 6 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Wrapped

Author: Jennifer Bradbury

Genre: Mystery, Historical, Regency, Young Adult

Publisher: Athenium (S&S)
Publication Date: May 2011
Hardcover: 320 Pages

Agnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the wrappings, about to unlock ancient (and not-so-ancient) history.

Maybe you [...]

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Shades of Milk and Honey

Book Review: Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

By On January 14, 2011 · 7 Comments · In 6 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Shades of Milk and Honey

Author: Mary Robinette Kowal

Genre: Fantasy, Historical (Regency), Romance

Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: August 2010
Hardcover: 304 Pages

The fantasy novel you’ve always wished Jane Austen had written

Shades of Milk and Honey is exactly what we [...]

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Book Review: The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer

By On August 25, 2009 · 13 Comments · In 5 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Corinthian

Author: Georgette Heyer

Genre Romance: Regency

Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publishing Date: June 1 2009
Paperback: 272 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand Alone

Summary: Walking home at dawn, quite drunk, Sir Richard Wyndham encounters heiress Penelope Creed climbing out her window. She [...]

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Powerpuff Girls Review: Darkborn by Alison Sinclair

By On June 2, 2009 · 7 Comments · In 6 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Fellow Powerpuff Girls (crime-fighters and book devourers) Blossum aka Katiebabs and Bubbles aka Ana team up one more time to read and review a book of their choosing. (Their friend Buttercup aka Thea is still AWOL, word on the grapevine reports she was last seen trying to destroy copies of Terminator: Salvation with the [...]

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Book Review: Frederica by Georgette Heyer

By On May 28, 2009 · 10 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Frederica

Author: Georgette Heyer

Genre: Romance – Regency

Publisher:Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publishing Date:Reprint edition – January 1, 2009
Paperback:448 pages

Stand Alone or series: Stand alone

Summary: When Frederica brings her younger siblings to London determined to secure a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister, she seeks out their distant cousin the [...]

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Joint Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

By On May 15, 2009 · 9 Comments · In 5 Rated Books, 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Joint Review

Title: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Author: Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Genre: Regency Romance, now with Ultra Zombie Mayhem!

Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication Date: April 2009
Paperback: 320 pages

Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel, derived from Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice.

Why did we read this book: It’s [...]

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Book Review: The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

By On April 13, 2009 · 22 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Magicians and Mrs. Quent

Author: Galen Beckett

Genre: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Regency & Gothic Romance (yes, it is ALL of these things at once)

Publisher: Bantam Spectra
Publication Date: July 2008
Hardcover: 512 Pages

Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a planned series.

Why did I read this book: [...]

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Lisa Kleypas Week – Book Review: Dreaming of You

By On September 21, 2008 · 23 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: Dreaming of You

Author: Lisa Kleypas

Genre: Historical Romance

Stand Alone or Series: Can be read as a stand alone, although is a sequel of Then Came You, following different main characters

Why did I read this book: After reading and really enjoying the first book, [...]

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Book Review: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

By On June 8, 2008 · 14 Comments · In 9 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Lost Duke of Wyndham

Author: Julia Quinn

Review number: 58

Genre: Historical romance

Stand Alone/series: Book 1 of a two books series called The Two Dukes of Wyndham

Summary: Jack Audley has been a highwayman. A soldier. And he has always been a rogue. What he [...]

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