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Hot Earl Summer - 2024 - Erica Ridley

Thank you NetGalley, Erice Ridley, and Forever publishing for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own honest review.

Publication date: ‎ August 6, 2024 Print length: ‎ 360 pages

My favorite Wynchester to date. A rare 5 stars.

An action adventure mixed with historical romance. Elizabeth is a hoot, a warrior, beserker (love this word), scared, emotional toddler. Her trip from needing no one to being totally 100% in love is a rollercoaster ride. Stephen the reclusive tinker is so cute you want to hug him. Making an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to make tea is a true tinker pastime. He goes from being happy and resigned to being alone to wanting to be with Elizabeth night and day. His tragic childhood rivals Elizabeths in ugly cry factor, it's all sad. The story is wacky, the characters are wacky, the witty conversations are laugh worthy. The plot is so out there, you'll love the way it unfolds, and the secondary characters are all wacky too. I'm using wacky a lot but it's on par with a screwball comedy. I laughed out loud a couple of times. An enjoyable read from start to finish.

It's nice to catch up with the other Wynchester characters and know that all is ok. Looking forward to Jacob having his own adventure, with his animals by his side has to be interesting.

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#travelcompanion What book are you bringing with you on the way to work/anywhere? I have this book on my bus travel to work. Nobody’s Princess by Erica Ridley Blurb: A fun and feminist Regency romp from a master of the genre hailed as "a delight" by Bridgerton author Julia Quinn. Nothing happens in London without Graham Wynchester knowing. His massive collection of intelligence is invaluable to his family’s mission of aiding those most in need. So when he deciphers a series of coded messages in the scandal sheets, Graham’s convinced he must come to a royal’s rescue. But his quarry turns out not to be a princess at all… The captivating Kunigunde de Heusch is anything but a damsel in distress, and the last thing she wants is Graham’s help. All her life, Kuni trained alongside the fiercest Royal Guardsmen in her family, secretly planning to become her country’s first Royal Guardswoman. This mission in London is a chance to prove herself worthy without help from a man, not even one as devilishly handsome as Graham. To her surprise, Graham believes in her dream as much as she does, which makes it harder to resist kissing him…and falling in love. But how can she risk her heart if her future lies an ocean away? Thanks to @grandcentralpub and @readforeverpub for my copy of the book! 🥰 🔖 #nobodysprincess #ericaridley #contemporaryromance #regency #bookishcanadians #bookblogger #bibliophile #bookstagramcanada #bookstagramphilippines #bookaddict #instabook #ilovebooks #bookishcommunity #booksofinstagram #bookstagramcommunity #books #bookreviewer #igreads #bookworm #readersofinstagram #booksbooksbooks #bookgram #booklover #goodreads (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2C2zdrCCK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Best thing after a work day is when you come home to these mails! The Certainty of Chance by @jaxmiddleton_author - this book has a really pretty cover and is a part of the 6-books-giveaway by @bookstagrammerscom and they came with a really cute bookmarks. The author even signed the book with a really nice message 🥰 Sworn To Forget by @mariaimbalzano_author - another book from the giveaway and a really exciting cover too! 😍 Nobody’s Princess by @ericaridley - this one is from @readforeverpub can’t wait to read this one too! Really pretty and interesting cover! 💕 Before I forget, if you haven’t yet, join my birthday/new job giveaway pinned in my profile. 🥰 🔖 #nobodysprincess #ericaridley #sworntoforget #mariaimbalzano #thewildrosepress #thecertaintyofchance #jacquelynmiddleton #bookstagrammerscom #giveawaywinner #bookmail #AD #Gifted #bookishcanadians #bookblogger #bibliophile ##bookstagramphilippines #bookrecommendations #bookstagramfeature #instabook #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #bookfeature #booksbooksbooks #bookgram #booknerd #bookcommunity #bookstagrammer #bookreviewersofinstagram #books (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgN68U4LF_y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#currentlyreading The Perks Of Loving a Wallflower By @ericaridley Philippa and Tommy My all time favorite series by Ridley is The 12 Dukes Of Christmas. I thoroughly enjoyed every one of those books. This books has received much praise. The mismatch band of siblings make this book interesting and entertaining. Also, the slow unfolding of Philippa’s feelings and acknowledgement of who she wants to be versus her parents and society. #romance #romancebooks #ericaridley #perksofbeingawallflower #lgbtq #girlswholikegirls #newrelease #books #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CVrvEtEL7UO/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Christmas comes again

I always read her books as soon as I get hold of them, and then wait anxiously for the next in the series. Now this is book 8 of the 12 Dukes of Christmas.  Annoyingly the remainder of the series are available on Amazon but didn’t some out in NetGalley before Xmas.

How did she count the 12 dukes, well she included the le Duc brothers and this is the story of Luc, the last one in the village to marry or even have a serious relationship. Why? Well he was focused on going home – to France – and getting the family lands, and possibly even a title, back as the Revolution was over. He also therefore refused to speak English. And had developed a rather bad speaking accent and poor vocabulary as a result.

We have another of our feisty and unconventional heroines involved in this story – Meg. Meg was far from an innocent, although her preferred method of birth control was sponges soaked in vinegar and douches. These actually date back a long way – ancient Egyptians also used sponges with either vinegar or lemons in the belief that the acidity will kill sperm. What she didn’t know was that using vinegar could lead to the deterioration of normal vaginal flora, and can irritate the vaginal mucus. Both eventualities heighten the risk of developing infections. However, she was right to some extent, as vinegar can kill sperm, but the sponge would need to be kept inside for quite some time to ensure that no sperm are left in the vagina.

So Meg sets out to seduce Luc before he returns to France, as she has had a crush n him forever.

As always with these series, when an author says ‘I’m going to write 12 books in a very short length of time, the books are short novellas with little character or story development, and this only gets shorter as the series continues. Nonetheless, if you’ve read the previous books, you know the characters involved and the setting so it doesn’t matter so much. And Erica still has a good style of writing and I really liked her making fun of the way 19th century writers wrote torrid sex scenes…

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"Il signore della fortuna" di @EricaRidley #mustread #romance #books #booklover #bestreadings Buongiorno e felice weekend a tutti! Inizio oggi - e spero di continuarlo con assiduità - un ciclo di recensioni alle mie letture, quelle di cui vale la pena parlare, naturalmente.

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When a Duke is a Duc

Another nice story about Christmas / Cressmouth town and the characters we meet in it. We have met the French émigrés before – the 3 le Duc siblings. 2 brothers and a sister. And of course there is the town’s ‘smuggler’ / pirate / ex-privateer and supplier of good French brandy and wine from his partners. A Privateer was an authorised pirate – that is someone who the Crown licensed to raid other ships and carry away their bounty. With a percentage of the profits going to the Crown of course to pay for the wars and the lack of taxes from the imported silks and wines that didn’t occur due to the war… And then there was typhus. In Ireland 1816 a major epidemic of the disease produced 700,000 cases out of a population of 6,000,000. More major epidemics followed  in 1821 and 1836 and again in 1846 with the Potato Famine. It is a bacterial infection spread by parasites – and the most important form of typhus being epidemic typhus (borne by lice). Other forms are murine, or endemic, typhus (flea-borne); scrub typhus, or tsutsugamushi disease (mite-borne); and tick-borne typhus. So another romance about a Duc rather than a Duke but pun or not it follows in the 12 stories about Dukes promised…

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This is my 14 day TBR. I’m striving to have all these read by then. The bottom are the 12 Dukes of Christmas series books 1-6 by Erica Ridley. I’ve been enjoying her books and are fast reads for me. . The top three are well received/ reviewed books that are under 290 pages. If I stop 🛑 with the YT as background noise and listen to my books instead, I should be able to do this. If you don’t know what I mean; I can listen to my books on my kindle fire using text to speech. I love it! . . #bookstagram #amreading #books #tbr #ericaridley #12dukesofchristmas #netgalley #edelweiss #therevisioners #margaretwilkersonsexton #allamericanmuslim #nadinejoliecourtney #darcyburke #wickeddukesclubseries @ericaridley https://www.instagram.com/p/B51KlzOghIV/?igshid=bwrin8e2cfaz