Monday, 25 September 2023
Carole´s Monday: Alice the dagger
Friday, 22 September 2023
Audio: The Governess Game by Tessa Dare
By: Tessa Dare
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Series: Girl Meets Duke, Book 2
Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 08-28-18
Publisher: HarperAudio
From: Bookbeat.fi /Historical romance
I really should have written this at once when I still had the feel of things.
I liked this one, it was sweeter somehow than the spindle cove books. Alexandra takes a job as a governess, Chase is a Duke to be with two unruly wards. She does things her way, he just wants to do his thing.
And they fall madly in love and lust. And live happily ever after.
Cute, fun. A really fast listen
Great narration. She does an amazing job
After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don’t need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke’s heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried—and failed—to make him settle down. Somehow, Alexandra must reach his heart . . . without risking her own.
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Like any self-respecting libertine, Chase lives by one rule: no attachments. When a stubborn little governess tries to reform him, he decides to give her an education—in pleasure. That should prove he can’t be tamed. But Alexandra is more than he bargained for: clever, perceptive, passionate. She refuses to see him as a lost cause. Soon the walls around Chase’s heart are crumbling . . . and he’s in danger of falling, hard.
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Audio: Lord Dashwood missed out by Tessa Dare
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Series: Spindle Cove, Book 4.5
Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
Release date: 12-08-15
Publisher: HarperAudio
From storytel.fi/historical romance
A novella, perfect and short!
Nora is on her way to Spindle Cove. Then she meets the man she write a paper on, and one that a lot of people read. Enter, bad weather and thrown together for the night.
It takes place during 24 hours so it is a short one. They will fall in lust, love and have some drama and then live happily ever after.
Short and nice. Saw some familiar faces
Good narration
Miss Elinora Browning grew up yearning for the handsome, intelligent lord-next-door…but he left England without a word of farewell. One night, inspired by a bit too much sherry, Nora poured out her heartbreak on paper. Lord Dashwood Missed Out was a love letter to every young lady who’d been overlooked by gentlemen—and an instant bestseller. Now she’s on her way to speak in Spindle Cove when snowy weather delays her coach. She’s forced to wait out the storm with the worst possible companion: Lord Dashwood himself.
And he finally seems to have noticed her.
George Travers, Lord Dashwood, has traveled the globe as a cartographer. He returned to England with the goal of marrying and creating an heir—only to find his reputation shredded by an audacious, vexingly attractive bluestocking and her poison pen. Lord Dashwood Missed Out, his arse. Since Nora Browning seems to believe he overlooked the passion of a lifetime, Dash challenges her to prove it.
She has one night.
Tuesday, 19 September 2023
TMST
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9/19/2023 New to me authors: who have you discovered this year?
I have read a few authors I have not tried before, but even if there were some good ones, I do not know if I want to mention any of them.
9/26/2023 Do you download freebies? Read free preview chapters?
10/3/2023 Do you enjoy multi-author anthologies?
10/10/2023 Zombie Apocalypse: What would you do?
10/17/2023 What is your favorite season? Why?
10/24/2023 What is your favorite supernatural creature?
10/31/2023 What is your favorite thing about Halloween?
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Monday, 18 September 2023
Carole´s Monday. Say yes to the Marquess
Published: December 30, 2014
Summary:
Sunday, 17 September 2023
Audio: A lady by midnight by Tessa Dare
Narrated by: Carolyn Morris
Series: Spindle Cove, Book 3
Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
Release date: 12-17-13
Publisher: HarperAudio
Bookbeat.fi and Storytel.fi/historical romance
So I have been reading a few Dare books, and when I had 2 hours left of this one my subscription was finished. And I could do nothing until October!! I know I know. Obvi I said F it and went to the competition. But that was a week only offer so it is soon finished with Dare for a while.
But before that, Kate teaches piano in Spindle Cove. Corporal Thorne has been giving her the cold shoulder for a year. She wonder about her past, he wants nothing to do with his past.
And then they are thrown together. And they fancy each other, and things happen.
And the past comes knocking!
Omg Thorne, just tell her! Men!
Fun times. I was curious about one person but that person has no book so far...hmmm
Great narration as always
After years of fending for herself, Kate Taylor found friendship and acceptance in Spindle Cove—but she never stopped yearning for love. The very last place she'd look for it is in the arms of Corporal Thorne. The militia commander is as stone cold as he is brutally handsome. But when mysterious strangers come searching for Kate, Thorne steps forward as her fiancé. He claims to have only Kate's safety in mind. So why is there smoldering passion in his kiss?
Long ago, Samuel Thorne devoted his life to guarding Kate's happiness. He wants what's best for her, and he knows it's not marriage to a man like him. To outlast their temporary engagement, he must keep his hands off her tempting body and lock her warm smiles out of his withered heart. It's the toughest battle of this hardened warrior's life . . . and the first he seems destined to lose.
Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Audio: A night to Surrender by Tessa Dare
By: Tessa Dare
Narrated by: Carolyn Morris
Series: Spindle Cove, Book 1
Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 12-17-13
Publisher: HarperAudio
From: Bookbeat
Historical romance
Spindle Cove is a safe haven. Whether it is to hide from men, hide your flaws, get better from an illness, or find yourself. Spinster cove is the place to be.
Everyone looks up to and asks Susanna for help. And she likes the way this quiet village is.
Until an obnoxious soldier shows up. He is to form a militia, but where are the men?! Then he becomes an Earl too, and takes her castle.
Bram and Susanna butt heads through out the book. Until they start to butt heads in other ways.
I liked the village, the people, and yes I have read books in this series before so I know with whom some of the people end up with.
Their romance was more lusty, they had some drama to get over and then they lived happily ever after
Good narration too
Welcome to Spindle Cove, where the ladies with delicate constitutions come for the sea air, and men in their prime are . . . nowhere to be found.Or are they?
Spindle Cove is the destination of choice for certain types of well-bred young ladies: the painfully shy, young wives disenchanted with matrimony, and young girls too enchanted with the wrong men; it is a haven for those who live there.
Victor Bramwell, the new Earl of Rycliff, knows he doesn’t belong here. So far as he can tell, there’s nothing in this place but spinsters . . . and sheep. But he has no choice, he has orders to gather a militia. It’s a simple mission, made complicated by the spirited, exquisite Susanna Finch—a woman who is determined to save her personal utopia from the invasion of Bram’s makeshift army.
Susanna has no use for aggravating men; Bram has sworn off interfering women. The scene is set for an epic battle…but who can be named the winner when both have so much to lose?
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
TMST
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9/12/2023 Libraries: do you prefer to visit in-person or check out on-line?
There is just something to browse in a real library. Going online is not the same thing, and I never check out online cos we have the worst section for English books online. So why would I bother. But what I actually do is I do reserve a lot online and pick it up at the book mobile
9/19/2023 New to me authors: who have you discovered this year?
9/26/2023 Do you download freebies? Read free preview chapters?
10/3/2023 Do you enjoy multi-author anthologies?
10/10/2023 Zombie Apocalypse: What would you do?
10/17/2023 What is your favorite season? Why?
10/24/2023 What is your favorite supernatural creature?
10/31/2023 What is your favorite thing about Halloween?
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Monday, 11 September 2023
Carole´s Monday. Fake it till you bake it
Tuesday, 5 September 2023
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9/5/2023 Overnights, long weekends, a week away: What's your preference for a trip?
My preference is staying at home. I am not relaxed, and just feel tired after being away. But if I had to choose:
Overnight, no, too hurried.
A long weekend, nah
A week away. Now you are talking. Enough time to relax and take your time.
But you know the worst part is coming home, unpacking. See that is why I stay at home lol
9/12/2023 Libraries: do you prefer to visit in-person or check out on-line?
9/19/2023 New to me authors: who have you discovered this year?
9/26/2023 Do you download freebies? Read free preview chapters?
10/3/2023 Do you enjoy multi-author anthologies?
10/10/2023 Zombie Apocalypse: What would you do?
10/17/2023 What is your favorite season? Why?
10/24/2023 What is your favorite supernatural creature?
10/31/2023 What is your favorite thing about Halloween?
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Monday, 4 September 2023
Joint discussion: Do you want to start a scandal by Tessa Dare
Author: Tessa Dare
Title: Do You Want to Start a Scandal
Published: September 27, 2016
I have been reading Dare for so many years, and she is always fun 🙂
I’ve read some. She is fun! And I like that I could skip to this one. I think I’m missing a book or two of the series but it did well as a standalone which is always nice.
I just took a look again, and it is Spindle Cove nr 5, but! Castles nr 4! No wonder it works like a stand alone. And yes I have read some here and there. At the moment I am reading a book where Charlotte is 14
Awwwwww I do plan on backtracking. This was fun and I want to see the others fall in love.
I am going to do Spindle Cove the missing ones :D I fear September will be a Dare month, but that is good.
I’m beginning to feel that too. I crave more of her books! :D
I liked this one cos omg that beginning. I had to hide my face in laughter and giggled as I was out walking
This was very funny!!!!! Especially with the aubergine! LOLLLLL
It was just the perfect mix of funny and cute
It really was. The drama was there but it didn’t take too long to fix. I loved this couple.
I kept trying to solve the mystery too, but I honestly suck at solving mysteries
There wasn’t much given to solve it. I think the author did it on purpose. The solution had me rolling in laughter.
It was a tricky one!
Cute couple, good times, I even liked her mother. Sure, meddling for sure, but she wanted the best. The one I could not stand was her besties sister, ugh!
Oooh that friend Frances or something another. She can rot for all I care. She was mean and terrible. I GET that she was looking out for her sister, but was she? I think she was just jealous of Charlotte.
I did like Edmund? Though. Omg honestly all the times he was shouting murderer made me lol
Bless him. That little boy just wanted to solve the murder so bad. A part of me thought maybe he wasn’t wrong. Hahahahaha.
I think he will solve crimes when he grows up!
Awww I hope so. Maybe we’ll get a book for him ;) Maybe Piers will take the lad under his wings.
I could see that in the future. I really do not have a lot to say about this book cos I was amused all the way through. Def read it, listen to it, and do not give one thought which order it is in.
I’m sure the audio is a lot of fun. I did the ebook and I enjoyed it immensely!! I bet the audio is fun ;) But yes, this was a gem. It was funny, had heart, and a great cast of characters.
Awesome narration. Nothing to complain about there
Love that! Maybe I’ll try and see if my library has the audio for one of the others of the series. I do plan on reading the others. Maybe, like you said, this might end up being the month of Dare. Darempter. Hehe
I have a mix of things coming up, spindle cover and castle ever after. Good times ;D Oh and one from a series that I loved, but I never read one of the books. Gotta catch them all
Hahahahaha I choose you Dare!
I dare you to Dare
Yessss!!!!! The end?
The end
Friday, 1 September 2023
Best of August
Best TV show of the Month:
Blodeuedd - Heartstoper (s2), Queen Charlotte, & Lincoln Lawyer