La carriera di un libertino

The best of the four first parts of the series. Interesting couple. Many (more than usual, I think) fascinating "small facts" about those times, like Francis Burdett's scheme of parliamentary reform. Of course, Marion Chesney only mentioned them, one has to check somewhere else to know more. But I lea Leggi tutto

Marion Chesney is one of my all-time favorite writers in the regency genre. The good thing about this genre of romance is that it is suitable for young adult readers as well as adult readers. There's no passionate sex going on in these books. Chesney's writing is always light and entertaining, like a Leggi tutto

Delightfully oddball, Regency romantic comedy This is the fourth of six books in the Regency-romance series, "A House for the Season." The complete series is: The Miser of Mayfair, the First Volume Plain Jane, the Second Volume The Wicked Godmother, the Third Volume Rake's Progress, the Fourth Volume The Leggi tutto

67 Clarges Street is let for the season by Lord Guy Carlton, who, upon returning from the wars, decides to sample all London has to offer in the way of debauchery. After a wild night of partying, the servants are shocked at their new master's level of dissipation and feel what he needs is a good wo

Booktubeathon book #4 - book older than me This is the first book I have read via audible, and I was disappointed in an annoying narrator who gave the characters weird voices that didn't really fit and sounded very similar, making it hard to understand who was talking. I was also more than disappoin Leggi tutto

Another great addiction to A House For the Season, between a military rake with PTSD (which is successfully treated with his true love's bosom....). The servants were more front and center this book, and once again Rainbird and Lizzie steal the show.