Currently reading
Roman Blood
Progress:
171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
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208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
Forbidden (Zebra Historical Romance)
Better than Unwilling Bride and as good in a different way as Christmas Angel. This novel of the Rogues series is actually the first one Beverley wrote years before she was first published. Francis, Lord Middlethorpe is a quirky and unusual male lead for a romance novel. I liked Francis for his honesty, his drive and his goodness. It's not true that good guy finish last. Not in this case. Serena, I dislike that name, is more of a classic romance heroine, bad brothers, rotten, wicked dead husband but Beverley succeeds in making us care about Serena or at least get a glimpse of understanding of where she comes from and what drives her behavior. One plot device is a bit clumsy (involving Francis' mother) but it introduces one secondary character that I am really looking forward to read about Lady Anne Peckworth in Hazard. We get the usual Rogue suspects moving the plot along: Nicolas, Lucien, Beth, Blanche and we get a peak at Miles and Felicity story coming up in Dangerous Joy
