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Showing posts with label Leigh Michaels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leigh Michaels. Show all posts

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Historical Romance Review: Just One Season in London, by Leigh Michaels

Last week we had the fabulous Leigh Michaels, romance author, on History Undressed for an interview, and today I'd like to post my review of her wonderful latest Regency release, JUST ONE SEASON IN LONDON.

But first...

ABOUT THE BOOK...

A family that courts together…



Viscount Ryecroft has a beautiful sister he needs to marry off… if only he had the money for her Season in London.

His family is in financial ruins, and his mother is willing to do anything to help her children, including sell herself to the highest bidder…


Finds passion on their own…


Sophie Ryecroft will sacrifice love to marry for the good of her family… but instead finds passion and solace in an attractive alternative.

With so much riding on their one and only Season in London, Rye, Sophie, and Miranda can’t help but get hopelessly entangled with all the wrong people…


MY REVIEW...

I really enjoyed Leigh's first Regency, THE MISTRESS' HOUSE, which came out earlier this year, and I admit to being worried about whether or not her second release with Sourcebooks would be as good! I mean, how could she top it? Well, she did. I love how Ms. Michaels can take us into the heads of several different characters without losing us.  I like getting the perspective of so many, it really does show you how differently people can think and how differently one person might react to a situation, or how they may feel about it versus another.  This is one of the reasons I like Ms. Michaels work so much. Her books are truly character driven, and by characters who leap off the page. We want to be their friends. We want to join them at the ball, or for tea to talk about what fascinating things they are going to do that day. They are larger than life. We laugh with them, gasp with them, worry over them, cry with them.

So did she top THE MISTRESS' HOUSE with JUST ONE SEASON IN LONDON? I wouldn't say she topped it--I can't because I loved them both so much. Once again Ms. Michaels put out a fabulous book! A witty, tantalizing, addictive confection for the reader's mind, which I highly recommend!

AND I am super excited to have just received the ARC to her next Regency release, THE WEDDING AFFAIR.  Looks like another fabo book! Will let you know :)

Cheers,
Eliza

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Book Review: The Mistress' House, by Leigh Michaels

I just had a delightful romp in Regency-era England... National bestselling author, Leigh Michaels' book The Mistress' House.

The book was funny, sexy and entertaining. I couldn't put it down!  I loved how the stores of Anne and Thorne, Fliss and Richard, and finally Georgie and Julian were intertwined around this one house. And while highly sensually charged, the stories were so romantic.  The men superb lovers and not only in the physical form. They truly had a way about their words that had my heart melting.  Additionally, all three heroines were strong, feisty, independent, and knew almost exactly what they wanted.  I say almost, because at first they had one intention only to see it melded into another much more satisfying end.

A definite recommended read if you're looking for a sensual bit of historical romance. 

Book Info:

Three beautifully intertwined love stories…


The rules are made to be broken…

When the handsome, rakish Earl of Hawthorne buys the charming house across the back garden from his town home, he never expects the lovely lady he installs there to ensnare him completely…

Again…

After Lady Anne Keighley marries the earl, it seems a shame to leave the house empty, so she offers it to her childhood friend Felicity Mercer, who discovers that the earl’s gorgeous cousin is precisely the man she’s been waiting for…

and again…

Finally, feisty Georgiana Baxter moves into the house to escape an arranged marriage, and encounters the earl’s friend Lord Julian Silsby late one night in the back garden. The handsome soldier is more than willing to give her the lessons she asks for…

There is plenty of gossip, scandal, and torrid speculations surrounding the “mistress’ house”, but behind closed doors, passions blaze…

ISBN: 9781402241352

Published by Sourcebooks, February 2011
Mass-Market Paperback and E-Format