2 books, rather quickly
Aug. 27th, 2007 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreThe Chocolate Jewel Case by JoAnna Carl-The only modern mystery series I still read, largely because there hasn't been an invasion of technology or a random switching out of love interests or insertion of a triangle, which are what have chased me away from every other modern mystery series I've read(not including completed or hiatused-is that a word?-series.) JoAnna Carl, Lee, Joe and friends have yet to even moderately disappoint me, and this book was just as fun as the rest.
The Village Spinster by Laura Matthews- My first regency romance in about a year I think, this one is about a village spinster(rather obviously) who makes a living teaching dances and painting to the local gentry. One local whose younger siblings go to her for lessons grows suspicious of both the visits of a male cousin and the fact that her chaperone is somehow never to be found (because she doesn't exist.) When she learns her brother may cease the lessons, his sister feigns an illness that forces her to stay at the spinster's house hoping it will bring them closer together. The book had a LOT of opportunities to turn the hero into a jerk or make the heroine too modern, but it miraculously managed to avoid them (it did come out at a time when editors were stricter about quality for regencies, after all...) and was light and charming from beginning to end.
The Village Spinster by Laura Matthews- My first regency romance in about a year I think, this one is about a village spinster(rather obviously) who makes a living teaching dances and painting to the local gentry. One local whose younger siblings go to her for lessons grows suspicious of both the visits of a male cousin and the fact that her chaperone is somehow never to be found (because she doesn't exist.) When she learns her brother may cease the lessons, his sister feigns an illness that forces her to stay at the spinster's house hoping it will bring them closer together. The book had a LOT of opportunities to turn the hero into a jerk or make the heroine too modern, but it miraculously managed to avoid them (it did come out at a time when editors were stricter about quality for regencies, after all...) and was light and charming from beginning to end.