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Father Christmas (Signet Regency Romance)

Barbara Metzger

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Heartwarming 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I loved this book. I'm tired of reading trashy porn novels that have no good literature in them whatsoever. This book gave me a good feeling inside when I finished it. I would recommend reading it. Especially this time of year.

BUT IT IS A REPRINT 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Of course this is a good book because it's a Metzger but also because it's a FLIPPING REPRINT. Dagnabit, publishers, give Metzger a contract for a short trad. regency, okay? Stop making her write the longer ones. They're fine and dandy, but she isn't at the top of her game with them. By not letting her loose with the perfect shorter length, you're stifling the absolute master at this genre. And face it, as we all wearily slog through this financial crisis, we need all the lovely fluffy fun we can get. Get her started on new trad regencies!
Grr! GRRR!

sneaky repeat 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This Barbara Metzger book is great, funny and charming. But dont be fooled by that 2008 date. This is an old one. Cheat

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In a Regency Christmas romance, a war hero's widow is shocked when the charming Duke of Ware decides to adopt one of her twin sons as his heir.

Sugarplum Surprises (Signet Regency Romance)

Elisabeth Fairchild

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The Duke and the dressmaker -- 5 out of 5 stars.
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Ah, yes. The Duke and the dressmaker -- once over that particular hurdle, however, nothing else in this delightful book is at all routine or hum-drum. It's a perfect Christmas present, with its cleverly woven tale of hidden treasures, and plum everythings!

Jane Nichol runs away from the horrendous match proposed by her step-mother, but is much better prepared for survival than most females of the age would have been. Due to the efforts of her beloved governess, Miss Godwin, Jane is proficient in both French and sewing. What more natural then, to establish herself--in heavy disguise--as Madame Nicolette, seamstress? In Bath, no less, a pleasant change from the busy London of 1819.

Madame's fashions quickly become essential to Fanny Fowler, who has become betrothed to the Duke of Chandrose, and engaged the young dressmaker to produce a wondrous wardrobe in celebration. Except that, when the marriage is called off, Fanny's father refuses to pay, leaving Jane with gorgeous clothing, and monstrous bills.

Greatly daring, Jane decides to broach the young Duke for payment, to keep herself away from financial ruin. Not surprisingly, after initially refusing to consider such reimbursements, he changes his mind, and begins to pursue the dressmaker, for a multitude of reasons. Eventually, all ends up as it should, leaving everyone--reader and characters alike--satisfied.

I think, however, the readers get much the better of this arrangement. Elisabeth Fairchild has a wondrous way with words, and each of the silver sugarplum surprises with which she decorates this confection will create a smile. A book to be savored, year after year.

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Lovely Jane Nichol-who spends her days disguised as a middle-aged seamstress-has crossed paths with a duke who shelters a secret as great as her own. But as Christmas approaches-and vicious rumors surface-they begin to wonder if they can have their cake and eat it, too...

Once Upon a Christmas (Signet Regency Romance)

Diane Farr

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

poignant, touching, also funny 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is one of my favorites by Farr. Made me cry, made me laugh, touched my heart. The characters are VERY well drawn, plus feature a couple of characters from her first book, The Nobody. They are nasty people in The Nobody and in this book she shows you a glimpse of what their lives are really like and you understand more where they are coming from. Brilliant. Even the nastiest character in this book, the duchess, you can't help sympathizing with to an extent. This reminded me of Jane Austen where every character is flawed even the heroines, and every character has redeeeming features even the villains. By the way, Farr excels in writing beta heroes who aren't wimps. Anyone in her right mind would fall in love with Jack. And Manegold the cat acts exactly like my own cat, he's great. I promise you will LOVE THIS BOOK.

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After a tragic loss, Celia Delacourt accepts an unexpected holiday invitation-which is, in fact, a thinly veiled matchmaking attempt. For the lonely Celia and a reluctant young man, it turns out to be a Christmas they'd never forget....

"Ms. Farr beguiles...."-Romantic Times

A Christmas Kiss and Winter Wonderland (Signet Regency Romance)

Elizabeth Mansfield

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An on-going pleasure -- 5 out of 5 stars.
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For those who admire sweet, sensible, straight-forward stories; wonderful writing; characters who are so lively they have a difficult time staying within the pages of the book in which they live; and a particular attention paid to the customs and morés of the period of history in which the book is set, there is no better author to read than Elisabeth Mansfield. Having started her career as an author of Regency novels in the 1970s, her output is as vast as it is charming. There's not a clinker in the batch! Or at least if there is, I've yet to discover it.

Readers who wish to tear through a book quickly, so they can get on to the next book and the next one, and so on, will pull their hair out while trying to read one of these Mansfield books. For there is little in the way of fast action other than the occasional vent-a-terre ride through a woods or such. However, the dialogue crackles and there is love and laughter on every page. These are stories to be savored. And enjoyed. And re-read.

Many plaudits to Signet for having released these two Christmas stories in one volume. I believe there are enough titles in the Mansfield canon to allow for two of these double volumes for many years without repeating a title. We can but hope they'll continue to do so, even though they've given up on the Regency genre as a regular entry in their catalog, they'd be foolish to give up on their annual best-selling Regency Christmas Collection. A Mansfield double volume would be a worth sister to the usually-charming edition of novellas.

At any rate, A Christmas Kiss is a heart-warmer of a story. When Miss Evalyn Pennington, a governess, is accosted by the son of the house and she fends him off with the help of an atlas, causing him to tumble down a short staircase, his doting Mama promptly informs her that her services will no longer be needed. Furthermore, she will not have a `character'. This is a far worse calamity than having no position at all, for without a character (letter of recommendation) she will have great difficulties in finding another position.

Two friends of the troublesome young man decide to help the estimable Miss Pennington, and one, Jamie Gyllford, invites her to his home for Christmas. He believes his aunt will realize the young woman's worth, and either write a character for her or find her a position. Of course, his aunt-who has stood in the place of a mother to him since he was just a baby-and his father promptly decide that Jamie is bringing his prospective bride home for their inspection.

Aunt Clarissa has been trying-unsuccessfully--to marry off her brother Philip for nearly twenty years, but she hadn't reckoned on the charms of Miss Pennington. Jamie's father-the Earl-is almost twice her age, but sparks fly between the two, causing no end of interesting situations.

It takes some doing, to be sure, but to quote another famous writer, "all's well that end's well."

Winter Wonderland is a quite different kind of story, but after a brief prologue, we meet the protagonists when they're just on either side of thirty. A tad old, perhaps, for a Regency romance, maybe, but nonetheless charming. When nineteen-year-old Barnaby Traherne is pushed into attending his first London soiré, in company with his oldest brother and brother's wife-the Earl and Countess of Shallcross, he is immediately taken with a dashing young red-haired lady, Miranda Pardew. She is very polished; he is entirely raw, and promptly makes a fool of himself, with her encouragement.

Eleven years later, Barnaby has become a dignified diplomat, and doting uncle to three nephews, sons of his middle brother Terrence. Miranda has become an impoverished widow, seeking employment as a governess or companion. Of course, these two end up together in a coach on the way to the wilds of Norfolk a few days before Christmas. Miranda is to be the governess for Barnaby's nephews, although neither of them are yet aware of the identity of the other.

Barely has Barnaby realized just who his traveling companion really is, when highwaymen accost the coach. The travelers are left tied to a tree, and only with great effort and presence of mind do they escape. A five-mile walk takes them to the nearest tavern, where they will stay until rescued.

There is definitely an attraction between the two, but the spotlight quite rightly falls on the boys. They're utterly charming lads, determined to help out in ways not at all considered by the so-called adults in the group. Finally, after many ups and downs, Miranda and Barnaby realize that what's in the past should stay there; it's the future that counts.

You'll find yourself smiling as you read these two heart-warming stories, and I daresay you'll remember them when next year's holiday season approaches. This book is a great gift to yourself-enjoy and appreciate it.

Editorial Review:

In A Christmas Kiss, a father allows his rakish son to bring home a lovely-but-unlucky governess for Christmas, only to realize he himself is drawn to her.

Winter Wonderland tells the story of Barnaby Traherne, a resigned bachelor since a woman rejected him ten years ago. But when she comes to him, Barnaby must decide if he'll hold a long-stinging grudge or allow the spirit of Christmas into his heart.

A Regency Christmas Eve (Signet Regency Romance)

Nancy Butler, Diane Farr, Allison Lane, Barbara Metzger, Edith Layton

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

a keeper for fans of Diane Farr!!! 4 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Four of the stories in this anthology were entertaining and helped me pass several pleasant hours on a winter evening. The fifth one, by Diane Farr, was simply outstanding! I was practically giggling in delight the whole time I was reading, especially from the moment I figured out that this was Fred Bates's story--the Fred Bates whose honor Trevor Whitlatch was defending in Ms. Farr's second novel, Fair Game. In this novella, we discover why Trevor was so eager and willing to help his friend out. Fred Bates is one of the most likeable characters I've ever come across, and the heroine in this story, Claudia, runs a close second. Their story is interesting and engaging. At the inevitable happy ending, you're giddy with joy right along with them. If you are a Diane Farr fan, you must find this book! Her story alone made this book a keeper.

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Celebrate the most joyous of seasons with these delightful stories of holiday romance from five of today's best-loved Regency authors. Each tale is set on Christmas Eve, capturing the season's true spirit of charity and goodwill-and proving time and again why love is the greatest gift of all...

The Famous Heroine (Signet Regency Romance)

Mary Balogh

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

under-rated 3 out of 5 stars.
5 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Mary Balogh is one of my fav's but this one fell short of my " I love Mary" books. The one thing I love about Mary is her ability to include the reader in a sympathetic and 'realistic' tale about the heroines story. I felt in this book that the male character wasn't passionate enough about his heroine; however funny. The characters in the book make you laugh, but you do sense the lack of passion and intimacy between them, which leaves you wondering whether (long after the story finishes)the hero and heroine find true happiness.

I loved this book!.... 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

this superb regency is well written in that it has a very unusual hero and heroine.

After reading dozens of romances with "dark, brooding" heros it was wonderful to read about Francis-a fun loving, and very flambouyant hero whose preferance for lavish and colorful attire gives naive miss Cora the VERY wrong idea of him! This book was absolutely delightful and suprisingly, very sensual for a regency.


5 stars and my highest recommendation-well worth the money, even at the higher out of print price:)

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Entering high society after rescuing a duke's son, merchant's daughter Cora Downes feels like a fish out of water, which is complicated by a misunderstanding that results in her engagement to blueblood Francis Kneller.

A Precious Jewel (Signet Regency Romance)

Mary Balogh

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Sweet and Touching! 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This is a wonderful book! It actually made me cry and that is really saying something because I *never* cry over books or movies. Bravo to Mary Balogh for being brave enough to write a story set in Regency times with a *working* prostitute for a heroine! I confess that I hate the more typical prostitute-but-still-a-virgin historical romance plotline.

Priscilla Wentworth is an impoverished gentlewoman who has been working in an uppercrust brothel for two months when she first meets the hero, Sir Gerald Stapleton, as one of her clients. Priscilla is a beautiful literary creation--a woman who is able to make lemonade out of the lemons that life has dealt her. She is a strong, intelligent, very sweet woman who has managed to retain her sense of self and dignity despite her sordid profession. Gerald is a less heroic but still incredibly sympathetic character. Not very adventurous, average in looks and intelligence, and feeling betrayed by all the important women in his life, he deliberately avoids any meaningful relationships with women until he meets Prissy. She is so sweet, warm and accommodating that he finds himself drawn to her and eventually sets her up as his mistress. Both Gerald and Prissy are so afraid of getting hurt that they deny their growing affection and try to treat their relationship as a business arrangement.

The love that develops between Gerald and Prissy is very believable, as are the issues that keep them apart. Gerald feels inadequate and cannot bring himself to trust any woman's love, particularly one like Prissy who has been trained to please and deceive men. Prissy realizes that even if Gerald could ever bring himself to trust and commit--gentlemen do *not* marry women who have been prostitutes (especially known prostitutes with other clients who are members of his own social circle.)

In summary, this is a really unique and heart-wrenching story! Highly recommended!

Editorial Review:

Family tragedy has left well-bred Priscilla Wentworth in poverty, so she feels grateful that Sir Gerald chooses her to be his mistress and never expects anything more.

A Regency Christmas Feast: Five Stories (Super Regency, Signet)

Mary Balogh, Sandra Heath, Edith Layton, Metzger, Patricia Rice

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A true gourmet's delight . . . 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

The minute you see this volume anywhere, buy it. (Unless, of course, it's a library book. In that case, just borrow it for a while.) Take it home, and after an aggravating day, pick it up and read THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING by Barbara Metzger. I guarantee you'll laugh out loud as you read about the ingenious young widow who tries to find a husband for her sister--only to win one for herself, instead.

On the other hand, if you're already too buoyant, and want to shed a few tears, Patricia Rice will oblige with THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE. Men go off to war seldom considering the woman they leave behind, and if you mix in a curmudgeonly father who ignores his now-widowed daughter, you have the ingredients for a real tear-prompting tale.

If you've ever all-of-a-sudden come to realize something that had been lurking in the recesses of your mind, you'll identify immediately with the young duke in Edith Layton's THE GINGERBREAD MAN. Awakened every morning by a scented memory, he discovers his heart's desire practically under his nose. You'll feel wonderful all day after this delight.

Have you ever wondered what on earth was a Syllabub? Wonder no more. In this instance, it, too, is a memory-maker as Sandra Heath whips up the tangled remnants of a marriage into a new concoction, and straightens them out to everyone's satisfaction in SOPHIE'S SYLLABUB.

And finally, Mary Balogh utilizes THE WASSAIL BOWL as a receptacle for love, hope and still more tears--all the things you need, in order to have a wonderful Holiday. Be sure to have a good one--and don't blame the reviewer for the calories you'll find in this delicious book--along with a related recipe from each author.

Editorial Review:

A treasury of five original Christmas stories presents works by Mary Balogh, Sandra Heath, Edith Layton, Barbara Metzger, and Patricia Rice, who tells of a woman who must decide whether to defy her father's wishes for a second chance at love.

Lord Carew's Bride (Signet Regency Romance)

Mary Balogh

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Wonderful follow-up to 'Dark Angel'. 5 out of 5 stars.
20 of 20 people found this review helpful.

Samantha is visiting with her cousin when she wanders off for a walk and meets the wealthy and crippled Marquess of Carew. He is dressed in gardener's clothes and she mistakes him for one. The marquess is charmed that this beautiful young woman wants to talk to a mere gardener, and so he does not enlighten her to his true station. The two develop a deep connection: they become true friends. Additionally, the marquess falls in love with her and, when Samantha returns to London, he is quite miserable without her.

While in London Samantha meets up with the only man she has ever loved, the villianous Lionel Kersey. She has not seen him in 6 years and is terrified of her attraction to him. When her friend - the marquess she believes is a gardener - follows her to London, she is relieved to see him. She desperately wants a distraction from her attraction to Lionel.

What will happen? You have to read to find out! This is a wonderful regency romance and I recommend it highly.

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When the notorious, irresistible Earl of Rushford waltzes back into Samantha's life after betraying her in the past, she is torn between a marriage proposal by Rushford's charming cousin and the embers of an old passion.

A Regency Christmas Carol (Super Regency, Signet)

Edith Layton, Carla Kelly, Anne Barbour, Mary Balogh, Elizabeth Fairchild

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Christmas with some of our favorite Regency authors 4 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This heart-lifting volume collects the storytelling talents of some of Signet's most beloved Regency authors, all spinning tales with Christmas carols as a central part of the yarn. These talented ladies pack into less than one hundred pages each an emotional wallop that is rarely found in novellas--sure to please even readers who do not usually find the depth they hope for in anthologies.

Mary Balogh starts us off with "The Bond Street Carolers" in which Lord Heath, who dislikes Christmas, stops in his tracks on Bond Street to hear a boy's angelic voice raised in song. Lord Heath decides that this young man must perform at his annual winter concert--but the boy's mother, Fanny Berlinton, does not want her son exploited. Little Katie Berlinton sees the tall man enjoying her brother's singing, and renews her wish for a Papa for Christmas. Even readers who do not normally care for children intruding on their romance will be enchanted by the parts these two take in this delighful story.

In "The Earl's Nightengale" by Edith Layton, a young woman pawns a musical mechanical bird left to her by the grandmother she never met--a gift that her grandmother said would bring her happiness. When she goes back a week later, as promised, to pay the loan and reclaim her heirloom, it is gone. She catches up with the Earl of Elliott, who purchased it, because it is her only link with her grandmother, and because she and her mother could certainly use some happiness right now. Ms. Layton's Nightengale is a charming gift to her readers, topped with an extra-special bow of an ending.

Next up is Elisabeth Fairchild with "The Mistletoe Kiss." On St. Thomas's Day, five days before Christmas, governess Constance Conyngham is convinced by her young charges to take them "a gooding"--but they did not expect to encounter Lord Deleval at The Devil's Keep, and everyone was even more surprised when he showed up the the bell-ringers' rehearsal. This is a heartening story of two wounded souls who can perhaps heal each other.

In "Make a Joyful Noise" by Carla Kelly, Lord Wythe is charged by his mother to help recruit new choir members for the annual competition between the churches of the neighboring shires. One of his first requests is to Rosie Wetherby, but soon he is ent ranced by more than just her beautiful voice... and Ms. Kelly's readers are entranced as well with the relationship that blossoms.

Anne Barbour concludes this collection with "Melody" in which American Josh Weston, now Earl of Sandbourne, meets his match in Melody Fairfax, companion to the dowager countess. We are emotionally involved from the beginning as we watch these two meet and quickly find a fearsome affinity towards each other. In a collection of masters of the Regency subgenre, Ms. Barbour shines as the star atop the tree.

Kimberly Borrowdale, Under the Covers Book Reviews

Editorial Review:

Ring in a joyous holiday season as five of romance's most beloved Regency authors bring you this special melodious collection! Mary Balogh, Anne Barbour, Elisabeth Fairchild, Carla Kelly, and Edith Layton weave these spectacular song-inspired tales, capturing the true spirit of the holidays: the giving and receiving of the gift of love!