A Pennyroyal Green Series Novel Avon October 30th, 2012 978-0-06-211802-8 Historical Romance Mass Market Paperback Reviewed by Dawn (love2read28@gmail.com) Obtained by Publisher For Countess Evie Duggan being notorious is hard to deal with. She went from being a Covent Garden to courtesan to Countess and the Ton hasn’t forgiven her for her very short marriage. So when she finds herself in the midst of a scandal that has gossips eager to spread the news, no matter if it is true or not, and Evie escapes to Pennroyal Green, where she has a manor house. In Pennyroyal Green, Vicar Adam Sylvaine is a man with a face of an angel and sexy as sin. He tries to resist the wildness of the Eversea blood that courses through him but even he finds himself tempted when Evie takes up residency at the Manor. Can these two find a way to face...
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Julie Anne Long and Tessa Dare have championed several categories of All About Romance’s 2013 Reader Poll!
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Publisher: Avon Date published: December 27, 2011 ISBN: 978-0061885693 Genre: Historical Romance Book format: Paperback Obtained via: Library Reviewed by name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com Julian Spenser, Marquess Dryden is known for not only wanting but accepting only the best. The ton on the whole follows and then mimics his every move. When he purchases four black horses with white stockings everyone who is anyone immediately rushes to purchase the same. When he sports a particular hair style, the style is quickly adopted by all and sundry. Women covet him but he wants only one—the one who will restore his family estates. Upon the death of her parents Phoebe Vale was sent to Sussex and attended Miss Endicott’s school. Miss Endicott’s is known for producing ladies of quality or at least young women who know their place and how to act in society, whichever strata they belong...
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Publisher: Avon Date published: July 28, 2009 ISBN: 978-0061341618 Genre: Historical Romance Book format: Paperback Obtained via: Publisher Reviewed by name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com War hero Chase Eversea has been banished to London. His family in Sussex has had enough of his brooding and aimless life. Not that they simply sent him away. They have set a mission for him—to ascertain if their cousin would make a decent vicar for the local parish church. Chase arrives in London and before he can visit his cousin, Adam, he receives a mysterious summons. A little street urchin name Liam has been sent to deliver a message to Chase, one he finds he cannot ignore. At the museum he has been summoned to he encounters the one woman he never thought to see again, Rosalind March. Rosalind March the woman he never forgot and the one he could never have. Rosalind...
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Publisher: Avon Date published: October 28, 2008 ISBN: 978-0061341595 Genre: Historical Romance Book format: Paperback Obtained via: Publisher Reviewed by name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com ( Returned from a scientific trip to the South Seas and mysterious disappearance of his elder brother, Lyon, Miles Redmond eagerly awaits his next adventure. His father, patriarch Isaiah Redmond isn’t inclined to finance another exploration for his son despite having the finances to do so quite easily. Shrew and wily, Isaiah has something else in mind for Miles. When a family emergency calls Miles’ parents away on the eve of a two week house party, Isaiah leaves Miles in charge with the admonition to (1) consider courting rather perfect Georgina and (2) to steer clear of his sister, Violet’s friend, Cynthia Brightly. What Isaiah doesn’t know is that Miles has already seen Cynthia and made up his mind to pretend she doesn’t exist....
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Publisher: Avon Date published: January 29, 2008 ISBN: 978-0061341588 Genre: Historical Romance Book format: Paperback Obtained via: Publisher Reviewed by name and email address: Gina Ginalrmreviews@gmail.com Colin Eversea has been sentenced to die for the crime of murdering another man. That the other man’s family and Colin’s have a long history of a feud that has caused strife to both families is but a factor in his pending death. As he begins the march to the hangman’s scaffold Colin is told to trip and fall at the 5th step. Counting the steps he does so and soon finds himself in the midst of a daring rescue. When a mad dash through London’s streets concludes he finds himself before a woman with a gun. Before he can gain answers as to just what she is about, someone breaks into their hiding place and attempts to kill Colin’s rescuer. Madeleine Greenway has...
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“She was struck by the width of his shoulders, a great shelf tapering elegantly into a lean frame. In his hands rustled sheets of foolscap upon which he’d no doubt written the words meant to improve their collective souls. Bent over his notes as he was now, he looked as if he were supporting the weight of invisible wings She could have sworn that then every pair of feminine shoulders rose and fell in a sigh when the vicar looked up, a smile, faint but warm, inclusive but impersonal, ready on his face, before he dropped his gaze again to his notes. The perfect vicar smile. She’d spent enough time in a theater to admire stagecraft. She’d spent enough time with men to be cynical about all of them. She had no use for any of them anymore. That, of a certainty, was part of her new life.” As you...
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Courtesan main characters in a Romance and Romances with some kind of religious figure, like a vicar, are iffy reads for me. But a book with both of those things? Wow, sounds like the kiss of death, doesn’t it? If it wouldn’t have had Long’s name on it, I wouldn’t have pounced on the book the way I did. I’m glad it did, though, because this was a wonderful romance about the unlikeliest of pairs. Evie’s traveled to Pennyroyal Green after the death of her husband. She’s hoping to live a quiet life, but her unfortunate reputation follows her like a dark shadow, making her an outcast when she’s barely just arrived. She’s an Irish girl from poor roots who has been an actress, courtesan, and wife—and each role has brought her more notoriety than the last. The people of Pennyroyal Green are not welcoming, but her determination, and the...
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A Notorious Countess Confesses by Julie Anne Long (Pennyroyal Green #7) Historical Romance Released: October 30, 2012 Avon Reviewed by May For years, nothing ever dented her; she had shaped the world to suit her, as surely as though sh were a signet ring and the world sealing wax. Evie, the Countess of Wareham – a notorious woman who raised herself up from humble Irish roots to becoming an actress, famed courtesan, and wife of an Earl. Now that the Earl has passed away, she is left with enough to support herself (though not extravagantly) and a home in Pennyroyal Green. Realizing she has no friends, and wanting only a simple, secure, happy life she settles in and prepares to battle the locals for a place among them. Her first stop, church. She falls asleep as the handsome Adam Sylvaine (aka the beloved Vicar) gives a most unusual sermon involving goats....
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One of the perks of being an Avon Addict was being asked to read and review eARCs of upcoming Avon releases for Edelweiss. Even though I'm now only an Avon Addict Alum, I was asked to read and review two last eARCs in my capacity as an Avon Addict. A NOTORIOUS COUNTESS CONFESSES by Julie Anne Long was one of those two eARCs. ***eARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest and unscripted review. Blurb for A NOTORIOUS COUNTESS CONFESSES: She rose to spectacular heights… From Covent Garden to courtesan to countess, beautiful, fearless, shamelessly ambitious Evie Duggan has riveted London in every role she plays. But the ton never could forgive her scandalous—if shockingly short—marriage, and when her star plummets amid gleefully vicious gossip, the countess escapes to the only legacy left to her: a manor house in Pennyroyal Green. He never expected to fall so hard… He...
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