Showing posts with label Tessa Dare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tessa Dare. Show all posts

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Catching Up (Kinda/Sorta?)

I've been reading like crazy, and I can't keep up with myself.

Re-reading Tessa Dare's Any Duchess Will Do prompted me to re-read the other book I obtained by her at the 2014 ALA Annual Convention (that I had read but not posted about), Romancing the Duke (1st in the Castles Ever After series).

Then I went back to catch up some with the earlier Spindle Cove books that I had never read.  So I got on OverDrive and read A Night to Surrender. But the library didn't already have the rest on ebook yet, so while I was waiting for my request to go through, I read the Stud Club books...
     1. One Dance with a Duke
     2. Twice Tempted by a Rogue
     3. Three Nights with a Scoundrel

     Then I read Once Upon a Winter's Eve, A Week to Be Wicked, and A Lady By Midnight in ebook format.

Mix in some ILL print books by Annie Bellet that I intend to go over in a different post (Pack of Lies and Hunting Season)

And a slew of Seanan McGuire books...

     From the InCryptid series (all in ebook format):
     1. Discount Armageddon 
     2. Midnight Blue-Light Special 
     3. Half-Off Ragnarok 
     4. Pocket Apocalypse

     And a print copy of Indexing that the library already owned.

     (Note: I've read all titles currently available in the October Daye series in 2015.  Apparently I never posted them, because "Seanan McGuire" is a new tag.)

I'm waiting for the library to get in The Twenty-Sided Sorceress:  Justice Calling; Murder of Crows; Pack of Lies; Hunting Season; Heartache; Thicker Than Blood; Magic to the Bone which I guess is supposed to come out in June and to purchase Reflections (next in the Indexing series and released this month) so I went on to read (and just finished) Jennifer Estep's Cold Burn of Magic (ebook).

While I wait for my request for the ebook Dark Heart of Magic to be approved and become available, I'll be catching up with Estep's Mythos books, beginning with where I left off, Crimson Frost.  I don't remember all the story line, but I'm sure I'll recall over the 4 books remaining in the series.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Any Duchess Will Do

Title: Any Duchess Will Do

Author: Tessa Dare

Publisher: AVON Historical Romance

Series: Spindle Cove, Bk 4

ISBN: 9780062240125

Length: 373 pages + Author's Note

Obtained: 2014 ALA Annual Convention

Why this book?:

I was in the mood for romance, and I remembered it had looked interesting.

Comments:

I read this months ago.  Like August 2015?  I think.  I don't remember the story, really.  Just that I liked it.  But even reading the back of the cover makes me want to read it again now.  There is something about certain historical romances that do that to me.  So maybe I'll re-read some and come back with remembered thoughts and comments...

About 3 1/2 hours later (having re-read much of it - I always skip the sex scenes)...

I definitely enjoyed the book.  But even with the story fresh in my mind, I don't have much to say.  Both Griffin and Pauline are likeable characters.  And I like the love story as well, but I especially enjoyed the HEA.