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Laurens performs to expectations. A Lady of ExpectationsJack Lester seeks the perfect brideone who is attractive and kind, but who also loves him in spite of his wealth.
Which is why he keeps this trifling detail hidden, But when Sophie Winterton enters his life, believing he must marry into wealth to run his family's estate, how will he convince her that she is the woman he desiresand that he can be the husband she deserves Secrets of a CourtesanEve Nightingale thought she had put her past as mistress to the Duke of Welburn behind her.
But when the handsome duke strolls into her small village, she finds it hard to keep her secrets concealedand to keep her heart from stirring for him once again.
How to Woo a SpinsterStill unmarried at twentyeight, Lady Emmaline Daughtry has resigned herself to spinsterhood, Then Captain John Alistair arrives at her doorthe very image of the perfect lover of her most private dreams, But can a man with a secret and a woman who's never known love find happiness together "All I need is her name on the cover to make me pick up the book.
"New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard, on Stephanie Laurens
"A rising star of the Regency arena, "Publishers Weekly, on Nicola Cornick
"Kasey Michaels aims for the heart and never misses, "New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts, on Kasey Michaels About the Author New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens originally began writing as an escape from the dry world of professional science.
Her hobby quickly became a career she has been writing historical romance novels for more thanyears, Currently living outside Melbourne, Australia with her husband and two cats, she spends most of her days writing new stories in her signature 'Errol Flynn meets Jane Austen" style.
Visit her online at sitelinkwww, stephanielaurens. com. USA Today bestselling author Nicola Cornick has written over thirty historical romances for Harlequin and HQN Books, She has been nominated twice for a RWA RITA Award and twice for the UK RNA Award, She works as a historian and guide in a seventeenth century house, Inshe was awarded a Masters degree with distinction from Ruskin College, Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation on heroes, USA TODAY bestselling author Kasey Michaels is the author of more than one hundred books, She has earned four starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, and has won an RT Book s Career Achievement Award and several other commendations for her contemporary and historical novels.
Kasey resides with her family in Pennsylvania, Readers may contact Kasey via her website at sitelinkwww, KaseyMichaels. com and find her on Facebook at sitelink facebook. com/AuthorKaseyMi . A Lady of Expectations
Jack Lester seeks the perfect brideone who is attractive and kind, but who also loves him in spite of his wealth.
Which is why he keeps this trifling detail hidden, But when Sophie Winterton enters his life, believing he must marry into wealth to run his family's estate, how will he convince her that she is the woman he desiresand that he can be the husband she deserves
Secrets of a Courtesan
Eve Nightingale thought she had put her past as mistress to the Duke of Welburn behind her.
But when the handsome duke strolls into her small village, she finds it hard to keep her secrets concealedand to keep her heart from stirring for him once again.
How to Woo a Spinster
Still unmarried at twentyeight, Lady Emmaline Daughtry has resigned herself to spinsterhood, Then Captain John Alistair arrives at her doorthe very image of the perfect lover of her most private dreams, But can a man with a secret and a woman who's never known love find happiness together OVERALL:
A Lady of Expectations
Secrets of a Courtesan
How to Woo a Spinster All great authors and great little stories
The first story was so boring that I cant even remember what it was about and I just finished yesterday.
The second story was just plain stupid, that would never happen, and why would somebody write such a story about such an impossible situation, The third story was a solid three and therefore I gave this anthology two instead of one, Skip the first two. the first story was ok, but the second was lame, and the third I swear I've read in another compilation, so it was redundant. Third story flop
I enjoyed the first book with this collection the second was ok and the third had potential but just did not quite there.
It ended too soon. No, no, and no.
A Lady of Expectations was profoundly aggravating, Jack wants Sophie, Sophie wants Jack, and the only thing keeping them apart is one Big Misunderstanding after another, I loathe one Big Misunderstanding, so to be assaulted by several in the same book always leaves me feeling a bit murderous,
And can I just say that I hate, hate, hate it when an author puts the heroine into a ridiculous situation in order for the hero to save her I hate it.
Did I mention I hate it Jack says Sophie shouldn't be riding such a powerful horse, Sophie bristles and says she can handle it, and SURPRISE! Sophie can't handle it.
I was hoping and praying that Sophie would be capable of handling the situation on her own, thus showing Jack that women aren't weak, incapable nitwits, but no.
Of course Jack had to save her, This is where the eyeroll gif would go if I were so inclined, but I don't want to waste a perfectly good gif on this terrible story.
Secrets of a Courtesan was stupid, too, Just a short story about two people who were separated for five years by, what else, lies and miscommunication,
Authors everywhere: Knock that shit off, We're tired of it,
How to Woo a Spinster was, . . weird. Not bad, but not particularly good, There was an element of bizarre humor I appreciated, but as it's nothing more than a short romance, there isn't much to help it stand on its own.
Another collection of short stories, The Laurens was fun. Well, the Stephanie Laurens' book was better than I was expecting due to all the negative reviews, I found it dated and oldfashioned in the 'masterful male knows much better than the naive young innocent how to run her life' condescending trope, That is annoying, but I'm old enough to remember this used to be the way all romances were,
I did find some enjoyable touches mixed in though, I particularly enjoyed the commencement of the seduction in church, Well done! I thought to myself, You rarely see that type of thing in 'sexy' books, but this reminded me of a favorite scene in sitelinkOpen Season, When well done, and while this one was not up to Howard'sone of my all time favorites ever, it was very good, This little scene showed more authorial mastery than I was expecting, kudos for that,
The rest of the book was not bad either if you can handle the dominant overbearing male aspect, Maybe because she was so young, this wasn't as annoying as it often is for me, While she stuck up for herself somewhat, at age, I doubt if she'd be up to his equal and able to hold her own against a much older male IRL anyway.
I did find the "My Dear"ing every possible moment to be condescending and squicky, but that's my reaction present day and coming during the Metoo movement not when this was first published, let alone it's Regency setting.
So YMMV.
Lauren's book took upof the space, The othernovellas are very short and share the remaining, They were slight, fairly pleasant, and I'll forget their plots by tomorrow,
As to, I personally hate Mistress plots no matter how much "love" they supposedly enjoy/ed, because I find that the selling of her body for money grosses me out.
It's distinctly unromantic, and puts her at such a power disadvantage, that
I can't get over my internal disgust, For all of that, this second novella wasn't too horrid and ended on a sweet note, but I still hate this type of story, can't turn off my internal disgust, and usually avoid.
Again, YMMV. I have weird prejudices, so make up your own mind,
I really have nothing much to say about the third novella, It was short, it was painless, it was forgettable, .