Queen B’s Decree: This was the first gay historical I’ve read. For some reason, it never occurred to me that wearing wigs and beauty marks wouldn’t be 100% heterosexual. The Queer Principles of Kit Webb was a slow burn. Percy is looking to hire Kit, a retired highwayman, to rob his father, the Duke. Their […]
Queen B’s Decree: To Love and to Loathe was remarkably light and fun. Our cast of characters is thus: Diana, Lady Templeton: widow to her much older husband, pragmatic, sharp wit, and can’t stop bickering with Jeremy Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham: rake (that’s a manwhore to you historical romance noobs), doing his best to live […]
Queen B’s Decree: As you may know, I am attempting to read outside my comfort zone. A Golden Fury sounded so interesting – alchemy! Who wouldn’t be interested in a female alchemist from 1792!? And at the beginning, it was very interesting. The story of the Philosopher’s Stone, the history of alchemy, and the curse […]
Queen B’s Decree: To Have and to Hoax was a funny and ridiculous historical set in Regency England. Violet and James quickly marry during Violet’s first season when she’s 18 (due to an adorable meet-cute on a balcony) and for one year live happily in wedded bliss. After one year they have an argument so […]
Queen B’s Decree: Historical used to be my favorite genre, so I jumped on the chance to snatch this one up. The Earl Not Taken started well. We get introduced to this squad of wallflowers who bonded together while at a boarding school. These women/girls were supposedly so terrible that their parents sent them out […]