Loretta Chase Master reviews post
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alias_sqbrI've nearly read everything written by my favourite regency romance author!
So here's short reviews of them all since her books come in series and I've read and reviewed them entirely out of order :) Will update as I finish off the last couple.
All these series work when read out of order, the references and spoilers are pretty minor, mostly cute cameos. But I imagine they'd be better read in order if you can manage it. Lists from Wikipedia, I think the chronology may be off :/
*=rec
^=somehow a bit different from the norm and interesting (though none of these are groundbreakingly original, and are not recced if you don't like regency romances)
Trevelyan Family Saga Series
Regency Series:
Carsington Family series: About the four aristocratic Carsington brothers finding wives.
Scoundrels Series:
Not sure what the connections are between these since I didn't realise they were in a series, I did notice two of them had a villain in common.
Other Books:
Other posts with longer reviews and discussion:
Mr Impossible review
A bunch of Loretta Chase romances
(*)I feel weird reccing anything quite so racist, but it really is a lot of fun when it's not treating the Egyptians like children. It's a very qualified rec :/
So here's short reviews of them all since her books come in series and I've read and reviewed them entirely out of order :) Will update as I finish off the last couple.
All these series work when read out of order, the references and spoilers are pretty minor, mostly cute cameos. But I imagine they'd be better read in order if you can manage it. Lists from Wikipedia, I think the chronology may be off :/
*=rec
^=somehow a bit different from the norm and interesting (though none of these are groundbreakingly original, and are not recced if you don't like regency romances)
Trevelyan Family Saga Series
- Isabella
- The English Witch
Regency Series:
- Viscount Vagabond: Sensible daughter of alcoholic wakes up drugged in brothel next to a wastrel...who goes on to rescue her and turn out not to be so bad after all (he's rather Ivan Vorpatril-ish). Quite sweet, a bit more Georgette Heyer-ish than the rest of her stuff. No sex scenes! (Yes, even despite the premise)
- ^The Devil's Delilah: Feisty woman with infamous father meets rather shy sensible boy, they are embroiled in hijinks. I enjoyed that aspect, but he got a bit alpha-male romance hero-y in parts which I found disappointing if not unexpected. Overall ok but not brilliant.
Carsington Family series: About the four aristocratic Carsington brothers finding wives.
- *Miss Wonderful: Feisty spinster running her father's estate spars with disabled war veteran trying to build a canal across it. Great.
- (*)^Mr Impossible: Racist but otherwise awesome adventure through Egypt.
- Lord Perfect: Not the best, though there was nothing actively wrong with it and some parts were fun. A "perfect" lord has to team up with a social pariah artist when his nephew and her daughter run off on a treasure hunt.
- Not Quite a Lady: Bland but unobjectionable. Woman is seduced and has baby as teenager, thus decides to stay a spinster. Meets determined bachelor…
Scoundrels Series:
Not sure what the connections are between these since I didn't realise they were in a series, I did notice two of them had a villain in common.
- The Lion's Daughter
- Captives of the Night: Blond arab spy poses as French aristocrat to investigate the husband (and then murder of said husband) of artist caught in a complex web. So exotifying of the hero it put me off.
- *Lord of Scoundrels: pretty much the pinnacle of light bantering "Beauty and the Beast"-esque bad-boy Romantic woobie with a bad childhood turned to mush by the love of a good, sensible, feisty woman.
- *The Last Hellion: She's a social justice campaigner, he's a dissolute aristocrat, they're forced to work together, hijinks ensue. I quite liked it.
Other Books:
- Knave's Wager
- The Sandalwood Princess
- Don't tempt me: this review at SBTB put me off rather.
- *^Your Scandalous Ways: A spy and courtesan try and seduce each other while in deep denial about falling for each other. A bit exotifying of Italy but lots of fun (then again I love this type of story, I'm not sure how good it was objectively)
Other posts with longer reviews and discussion:
Mr Impossible review
A bunch of Loretta Chase romances
(*)I feel weird reccing anything quite so racist, but it really is a lot of fun when it's not treating the Egyptians like children. It's a very qualified rec :/
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Date: 2010-06-03 03:15 pm (UTC)Here via regency_romance
Date: 2010-06-03 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-04 02:56 am (UTC)Re: Here via regency_romance
Date: 2010-06-04 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-04 03:10 am (UTC)mistress, paid companion, affair - they're all pretty fun and i liked the female characters for having some backbone and character than just swooning all over the place.
i have a whole bunch on ms reader, i am happy to send them your way
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Date: 2010-06-06 12:07 pm (UTC)I don't use Windows machines for reading, so they probably wouldn't do me any good, but I'll go reserve those at the library, thanks.
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Date: 2010-07-02 12:34 pm (UTC)