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. […]
Queen B’s Decree: You likely know, I read all things Pride and Prejudice-inspired. So as soon as I saw Most Ardently, I clicked “request” so fast your head would spin. Most Ardently had a slight P&P twist. Elizabeth Bennett was actually Oliver, a trans boy, stuck in a girl’s body during a time frame where […]
Queen B’s Decree: I was pretty obsessed with this book. I think what I loved so much about this book was the combination of emotions evoked in me. It was funny, and heartbreaking, and sweet, and spicy, and I just couldn’t get enough. Beth and Gwen were fully fleshed characters, and I loved their progression […]
Queen B’s Decree: Never Met a Duke Like You is a play on Clueless, or more accurately, Emma. Vesper and Aspen (which don’t feel like historical names, frankly) were childhood friends that had a big falling out but haven’t seen each other in years. Aspen was hard for me to like. I can appreciate his […]
Queen B’s Decree: Go as a River was filled with beautiful, but overly flowery language and prose. And honestly, I was hooked at the beginning. As primarily a romance reader, I was so invested in the love story of Victoria and Wilson. And I’m sorry, this is a spoiler, but Go as a River is […]
Queen B’s Decree: I’ve enjoyed all the books in this series so far, but none more than My Rogue to Ruin. Our heroine is Marjorie, a quiet bookworm, who usually assists her siblings from behind the scenes. But this crime is about art—ART!—so Marjorie steps into the spotlight to help save the day. This story […]