The culture… I love the mentions of Demerara, coconut bread and West Indian magic. How she drops bits of how the ton perceives Patience and how her husband hide her away is interwoven throughout the story realistically. I got what Riley was putting down. The point of view was super confusing in the beginning but […]
Tag: historical romance
Review| Zoe, T.A. Ford (Diverse Historical Romance)
Bookswagger: This was an intriguing read. The heroine Zoe came across as strong and loving but she fell in love to quickly with the hero Comte Julien La Roque de Toulouse who I did not find lovable at all in the beginning. I mean dude was a hole. This woman of mixed birth living her […]
Review| Trail of Redemption, Merry Farmer
I was excited to see this, I am on a deep early American kick and I recognize this is a difficult era to write about and include happy Black Americans, I get it, I do, I do. I loved the heroine Estelle, she was leaving behind her family and life as she knew it. How […]
Review|Given, Lisa G. Riley and Roslyn Hardy Holcomb
Mary Katherine Day does not desire to ever enter into the contract of marriage. She has everything she could ever want, her own home, business and friends. She does not see the need to marry a certain tall, bald man even though he makes her feel things no proper single, virginal woman should. Jacob Adams […]