Queen B’s Decree: I had such a fun time listening to this one. Lydia is so relatable. She has social anxiety and hates talking in front of people, but give her a pen and she’s in her element. With a mix of humorous antics, witty banter, a mysterious plot, and plenty of chemistry, Earl Crush […]
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 […]