Not Quite A Gentleman by Jacquie D'Alessandro

Three years ago a spy mission (they’re almost always spies) resulted in Nathan Oliver being blamed for both his brother and best friend being shot, and a bag of jewels going missing. Just before that, he kissed Victoria Wexhall, the daughter of his superior, to make her stop talking. She doesn’t take that well. After becoming a country doctor with a small horde of animals that he accepted as payment, he receives a message from Wexhall that Victoria is being sent to the country, and that (unknown to Victoria) she’ll have a message for him that could help Nathan clear his name.

Victoria, naturally, isn’t overly impressed with the “I was rifling through your belongs for the encoded letter your father-who you don’t know is a spy-hid there” line. Nathan isn’t sure the annoyed bluestocking is any better than the naïve chatterbox. This is a very fun book, but also fairly common for its type. I wish, though, that more had been done with Victoria’s apparently photographic memory, and that we’d seen her deal with the prospect of going from being the indulged daughter of a filthy rich Duke to the wife of a humble country doctor. We saw her falling in love with Nathan and falling for his animals, but not dealing with the change in lifestyle that she expected to come with Nathan.

House of Eliot 2.1-2.12 (complete season)

Hmm…I can’t decide if this season had more or less fashion pr0n than the first season. On the one hand, it seems like there was less of Bea and Evie’s designs. On the other, unlike season 1, they dress like a pair of designers with impeccable fashion sense, so they have some stunning outfits.

There did, though, seem to be less of a focus on their relationship with each other, and more focus on the business side of things, and their relationships with others.

( spoilers )

Well, phooey.

As I'm not shelling out a couple hundred dollars for a journal that I don't know for a fact that will be around long enough for me to get enough use out of it to warrant the expense, I didn't purchase a Dreamwidth account.  But I did upgrade during the beta, and even though I haven't been able to change my icons at all since Dreamwidth went live, I still had access to all my icons (which were just the icons I had uploaded in February).  Sadly, it seems that I lost the extra icons between yesterday and today.

ICON WOES!

Meep!

Thank you to whoever bought me the six months of Dreamwidth time!

(I swear I wasn't hinting.)