Queen B’s Decree: 10 Things I Hate About You was one of my favorite movies as a teenager and The Worst Duke in London is basically that movie…in historical England. Yes, the plot is a little ridiculous—you’re telling me a Duke bare knuckle fights for money?? And the villain is a little cartoonish—but it’s still […]
Queen B’s Decree: It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a book has Pride and Prejudice references, I will read it. Puck and Prejudice features a hockey goalie who is transported back in time to 1812 England, where he encounters spinster, Lizzy. And guess who Lizzy’s bff is…you guessed it, Jane Austen. Filled with […]
Queen B’s Decree: I have to admit, I didn’t adore this one as much as I did its predecessor Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend. So much of the story was basically a long miscommunication that could have easily been prevented had any of the characters just talked?? But of course, it’s Victorian England—we […]
Queen B’s Decree: I read the Lonesome Dove series as an impressionable college freshman and I was forever changed. The Devil’s Backbone really brought me back to that feeling. It’s a slow burn romance, yes, but it felt more like a true western. A horse sidekick (with an almost spiritual connection with Cass), a revenge […]
Queen B’s Decree: I forgot how much fun the world of the Wild Wychesters is. Hot Earl Summer stars Elizabeth: the swashbuckling, sword carrying, chronically disabled berserker. She meets her match in Stephen. I never thought we’d meet a character that is more whimsical or off-the-wall than the rest of the Winchesters, but Stephen has […]
Queen B’s Decree: I wholeheartedly adore this book and its characters. Mark—the prickly reporter, just starting to get back to life after losing his partner; and Eddie—the newly-traded, golden retriever baseball player in a slump that Mark is reporting on. While You Should Be So Lucky is about Mark and Eddie’s gradual fall in love, […]
Queen B’s Decree: Like many elder Millennials, I had the 1996 Romeo + Juliet on VHS and I watched it over and over. I picked up A Daughter of Fair Verona with my little grabby hands as soon as I saw the heroine was the daughter of the famed Romeo and Juliet and I couldn’t […]
Queen B’s Decree: There was a lot going on in the plot of Lady Charlotte Always Gets Her Man. Including: It was just too ridiculous for me. I like a little irrelevance in my historical—I love Erica Ridley’s Wild Wynchesters series—but this didn’t seem to work. It felt like it was trying too hard, and […]
Queen B’s Decree: To Woo and to Wed is the last in The Regency Vows series and I feel like I’ve been anticipating Sophie and West’s story since the very beginning. West was the adoring, cinnamon roll that I can’t resist. He fell for Sophie hard seven years ago and has never recovered. Sophie…was harder […]
Queen B’s Decree: Never Blow a Kiss is a historical romance from the Victorian era, but don’t worry…it’s not the prudish part of the era. The interaction between our leads was the star of the show. Zach and Emily are so great at the witty (and flirty) banter and their chemistry flew off the page. […]