Heat Factor: Entry Level Hotness.
Character Chemistry: Immediate and dreamy.
Plot: Epic adventure of self-discovery… and romance… on the high seas.
Overall: True love lasts a lifetime.
Tag: English Seaside
Review: How to Cross a Marquess by Jane Ashford (2019)
Way to a Lord’s Heart, Book #3
Heat Factor: There’s some kissing of shoulders and some titillating undressing.
Character Chemistry: Enemies to lovers has unconvincing results.
Plot: They have to overcome their enmity…and also a crazy person at the end for good measure
Overall: My enjoyment was shaped like a Gaussian curve
Review: Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas (2017)
The Ravenels, Book 3
Review of The Ravenels Book 1, Book 2
Heat Factor: They’re a little wild
Character Chemistry: The way they work together on their relationship is wonderful
Plot: Pair of young people inadvertently find themselves in a compromising position and…
Overall: There are a few moments in this book that are heart-stoppingly wonderful
Review: How to Forgive a Highlander by Michelle McLean (2019)
Heat Factor: Medium-low
Character Chemistry: That thing where they argue and it’s true love
Plot: Accidental kidnapping leads to much bloodshed, but probably the bloodshed was going to happen anyways
Overall: Decidedly uneven
Review: A Devil of a Duke by Madeline Hunter (2018)
Decadent Dukes Society, Book #2
Review of Decadent Dukes Society, Book 1
Heat Factor: Too. Much. Sex.
Character Chemistry: Does a relationship based on a lack of respect for boundaries and too much physicality ever work?
Plot: Honest thief meets horny duke
Overall: I cannot with the seducer / don’t want to be seduced dynamic
