society

THE AFTER PARTY Innocence and Innuendos

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Women's Fiction • Tags: friendship, Houston, Penguin Audio, socialites, society

Two Houston socialites in the 1950s struggle with life, parents, parenting and things only discussed in private.

A FINE IMITATION by Amber Brock: of Art & Gilded Cages

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Literary Fiction, romantic elements, Women's Fiction • Tags: marriage in the early 20th century, society, Vassar, women's education, women's rights

A college co-ed marries for security and not for love. Art and love are freedoms that can be hard to find when security stifles creativity.

Shana Galen’s I KISSED A ROGUE (But Did He Like It?)

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: aristocracy, Covent Garden, Regency era, Seven Dials, Shana Galen, society, Tantor, Tantor Media

Years ago, a young second-son put his love on the line and was rebuffed by a woman and her ducal dad. Will Bow Street’s knighted investigator, Sir Brook Derring, rescue the woman by whom he was spurned?

When and What is “The Season” in Historical Romance?

by fangswandsfairy • Feature, It's A History Thing • Tags: Debutante, Etiquette, presentation, Season, society, Ton

Everyone in historical romance talks about going to London in “the season.” I’ve always wondered when was this “Season?” Is is a particular “season” like spring, or winter? I looked it up so you don’t have to.

KISS OF LIES by Bronwen Evans: Is True Love Blind?

by fangswandsfairy • Book Review Fiction, Historical Romance • Tags: aristocracy, Bronwen Evans, England, governess, Libertine Scholars, London, Napoleon, society, strong women, the ton, war hero, Waterloo, women's rights

An injured hero, unjustly accused of a crime and a wife on the lam discover each other in an action filled historical romance series starter.