#historical romance
“look at all these straights lmfaoo let’s leave…”
The Cypress Grove
Genre: Romance/Historical/Fantasy, slightly based on thismythSetting: Greek Anatolia, early 900s, Byzantine Empire
Word Count:7200
Since Halia could remember she belonged more on the land than in the seaside city of Abydos, the tender soil as close to her heart as her mother’s line, who before they became known as healers lived off the land as farmers and hunters. It was here, on the outskirts of Astyra, that Halia was content.
She didn’t need marriage or children or love or family if only she could stay on the land.
Halia didn’t want to knock her birthplace by the Dardanelles. But the young Byzantine medic cherished that innate feeling of home, as she surveyed their dwindling olive groves. In this maternal alcove outside the main city, she felt at once at peace and loved. Nourished by the soft sun, the gleaming rocks, the scent of pine and cypress, and the crisp air.
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My thoughts on: Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
His kisses had lifted a loneliness off her she hadn’t even known she carried.
Summary from Goodreads:
England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women’s suffrage movement. Her charge:…
Jen, writing historical fiction: Okay, help me out. When you’re trying to get a man to propose to you, you’re trying to bring him to…
Ashley: –the point.
Jen:That’s right. *typing*
……
Ashley: …HISKNEES.
i’ve spent the last two weeks binge reading the bridgerton books and despite the fact that they’re pretty much the exact same book eight times i actually really enjoyed them lmao**
i’m a simple girl and something about this bland, white bread, run-of-the-mill historical romance formula scratches an itch in my brain that isn’t quite reached by anything even vaguely intellectual.
i’m starting (and probably finishing) ‘on the way to the wedding’ today but here are my rankings so far:
1. an offer from a gentleman (benedict) 4.7 stars
2. it’s in his kiss (hyacinth) 4.5 stars
3. when he was wicked (francesca) 4 stars
4. the viscount who loved me (anthony) 4 stars
5. the duke and i (daphne) 4 stars
6. romancing mr bridgerton (colin) 3 stars
7. to sir phillip with love (eloise) 3 stars
** i must, however, point out that many parts of the books are quite problematic and ALL the love interests present a different flavour of misogyny. as julia cudney so eloquently pointed out in her youtube vid ranking the books, a lot of people’s rankings are literally based on what form of misogyny bothers them the least so take all of this with a pinch of salt lol
A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (Spindle Cove book 1)
(for those of you playing at home this snippet is a moment between the characters who will be our hero and heroine in A Week to be Wicked)
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A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (Spindle Cove book 1)
Okay, so he’s mostly describing how she tastes. Just go with it.
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