A forgotten pre-order delivery to my Kindle! Huzzah! A Regency romance with a custody battle, Someone to Honor is the sixth book in Mary Balogh’s current Westcott series. I’ve read all of the novels, but only reviewed a couple. She’s a writer whose work I don’t bounce in anticipation of, but she is a confident writer …
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The Westcott Series: Someone to Hold by Mary Balogh
Mary Balogh writes reliable romance about sensible and somewhat damaged people finding each other. The first in her new Westcott series, Someone to Love, wasn’t as strong as it could be, but Someone to Hold featured excellent and interesting character development. I don’t pre-order Balogh’s books or run to the library to get a look at …
Mary Balogh Reading List
Every time I read or review a Balogh romance, I say the following: If Mary Balogh’s publisher made her back catalogue available $4 or less each, I would stockpile it. Balogh writes Regency romances about sensible people finding love. Themes: Love moves one out of one’s comfort zone, and one needs to in order to …
A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
“I don’t think anything inspired me except the necessity of coming up with a story so that I could fulfill my obligation to a contract I had agreed to! I had to dream up a story, and this one popped into my head.” Mary Balogh in the interview following A Matter of Class. Nonetheless, as …
The Westcott Series: Someone to Love by Mary Balogh
This first book in Mary Balogh’s new Regency romance Westcott series got off to a good start with a great heroine, a play on a familiar romance plot, and a somewhat inscrutable hero. About halfway through, the story lost steam and fell prey to a trope that’s day has passed. Once again, a toad of …
The Survivors’ Club: Only Beloved by Mary Balogh
The last book in Mary Balogh’s excellent seven book historical romance Survivors’ Club series features the kindest man in the world and a happy spinster. About a decade ago, George, Duke of Stanhope, turned his estate into a hospital and took wounded Napoleonic War veterans into his home. Six of the patients, a woman and five men, …
The Survivors’ Club: Only a Kiss by Mary Balogh
The Survivors’ Club series has had a really good run and there is one more book to go that I will be reading when it becomes available, but Only a Kiss was a swing and a miss. I never really connected with it and, in particular, didn’t get a handle on the hero. Before I …
The Survivors’ Club: Only a Promise by Mary Balogh
Oh, Mary Balogh, reading one of your Regency romances is like slipping into a warm bath. Comfortable, always enjoyable and relaxing, you are so wonderfully consistent in your heartfelt stories about broken people finding a kindred spirit to fit their pieces to. Only a Promise is book six in Balogh’s current series, Survivors’ Club, and …
The Survivors’ Club: The Proposal and Only Enchanting by Mary Balogh
Mary Balogh’s lovely and touching Survivors’ Club series has what I am beginning realise is the central theme of many of her historical romances: Shuttered and broken people finding new lives and unexpected happiness. Who better to be given these second chances than soldiers and those who have seemingly lost everything? Six friends, five military …
The Survivors’ Club: The Arrangement and The Escape by Mary Balogh
My theory that there are more soldiers in Regency romances with PTSD than served in the Napoleonic Wars continues to hold water. Mary Balogh has been publishing romances since the year I was eligible to vote. Not surprisingly, she is a consistent writer of good quality. I have only read about six of her books, …
Mrs. Julien Presents 