#tessa dare

[seraphont]

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[wikitpowers]

A happier thought the Kit letter created: Kit helping Tessa in the garden, debating with her about how good different movie adaptations of books are, showing Mina the big fuzzy bees bumbling around, deciding what flowers to plant together, Kit getting to spend a lot of time outdoors during the day and getting a bunch of freckles in the summer...

stop bc the fact that kit is so loved by jem and tessa and mina is messing me up. like he finally has that; after so long he has a family who would not only protect him with their lives, but who also love and accept him just as he is, who hug him, talk to him and most importantly, show him that he is loved <3

[garvalhaminho]

a moment to acknowledge tessa gray's bravery and strength. like, she is immortal, she knows everyone she meets and everyone she loves will die (save perhaps her warlock friends, who also go through that), and yet she keeps on loving. she doesn't let the fact that she *won't* die tomorrow keep her from living. and, when tragedy and death visit her loved ones, she grieves, but yet she keeps on choosing to love. she loved will and their children with all her heart, but she lost them and everyone that came after them. and yet she still loves them. and she still loves jem, and she marries jem, and she adopts a child, and she has a child, and she loves them too with all her heart, even knowing she will lose them all one day and will have to keep living. she's strong in the way she chooses to keep loving

[jcjensensnepobaby]

ur mom is a grade a bitch

Listen here, and listen well. My Mother was a respectable woman. I will NOT let you drag the name of the late and great Louisa Miriam Elliott.

She was a great woman, she taught me everything I know, she even showed me how to be worthy enough. My Mother was wonderful, and to insinuate she was a bitch is to call me a bitch too, for shame, anon, for shame.

Were you raised in a bloody barn, mate?

But you? You're nothing but a putrid little excuse of a life form, you absolute brain dead dingle-berry

[triviareads]

can you recommend for me a good historical romance with a heroine who is in STEM?

I read one good earl deserves a lover on your recommendation and I really liked Pippa. do you have other books with heroines like her?

Sure! Here they are:

In Want of a Viscount by Lorraine Heath (pub date 2/20/24): The heroine is a businesswoman and inventor who invented the typewriter (or a better version of it) and is very interested in engineering. The hero clocks this and even takes her out on dates to see Big Ben (no, not a euphemism but Stuff does happen up there) and to a club so she can disassemble a roulette wheel and I thought he was very hot for that.

Convergence of Desire by Felicity Niven: The heroine is so focused on proving Fermat's Theorem that she agrees to a marriage of convenience to a local rake so she can focus on math while he's allowed to fuck anyone he likes (he predictably can't get it up for anyone but her shortly after their marriage).

My Kind of Earl by Vivienne Lorret: The heroine accidentally incites a riot in a brothel and escapes by using one of her experiments, a beetroot bomb that makes everyone pink. She's generally an inquisitive, experimental sort from what I remember.

Knockout by Sarah MacLean: Another gal with a penchant for explosives, Imogen tinkers with explosives in her brother's basement, but don't worry it's for a good cause, namely her vigilante group, the Hell's Belles. Her expertise is also called upon to investigate a series of bombings.

When a Scot Ties a Knot by Tessa Dare: Maddie does animal illustrations for scientific books for naturalists and dreams of f illustrating multi-issue encyclopedias. A subplot in this books does involve lobsters fucking so Maddie can illustrate them accurately.

The Detective Duke by Scarlett Scott: I'm pretty sure the heroine in this one invented the first electric frying pan.

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare: The heroine goes around fixing clocks in aristocrats' houses before she accidentally becomes a governess for the slutty hero's new wards, and her one true passion is astronomy and looking for comets.

[fatherforgivethem]

Hi! I was wondering if you could do a Daeron x Rhaena moodboard? Thanks in advance!

“Oh no!” The maiden cried, “Do not leave me! For you will die and I shall never see you again. I shall be doomed to a life of eternal hallow.”

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The warrior cupped her face as delicately as glass, “I must fight! I must fight to protect you, to protect the realm. My dear maiden, if the realm falls, then I have failed you.”

“And if you never return?” She cried in horror.

“Then look for me in the sky, in the sea, in the fickle grass beneath the swarming trees. For it is there that you will see me, feel me, and hear me.”

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

Which Poptropicans would be in Yellowjackets? 🐝

Some Yellowjackets

[quotelr]

Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance

Tessa Dare, Any Duchess Will Do

[maddiesflame]

The Duchess Deal headers

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[jessread-s]

✩🔭📔Review:

A delightfully funny and steamy regency romance!

“The Duchess Deal” set the bar high and unfortunately, as much as I wanted to love this one, “The Governess Game” didn’t quite measure up to it. I really liked Alex as a character. She is intelligent, ambitious, passionate, and does not put up with any nonsense. Her relationship with Rosamund and Daisy was incredibly endearing and their dynamic was so fun. I love how she worked hard to win them over with the goal of making sure they felt wanted and loved when they initially felt otherwise under Chase’s care.

What fell flat for me was Alex and Chase’s romantic relationship. While their banter was hilarious, I wasn’t sold on their chemistry. This may be in part due to Chase’s character. He is introduced as an rogue-ish rake that cannot love, but that changes on a dime the moment he meets Alex. If he gradually became charming, sweet, and caring over time, I think I would have been more invested and more willing to put up with the push/pull of their relationship.

This book may not be my favorite in the series, but it was still an entertaining read!

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[entre-livros]

Durante toda a sua vida, quando conhecia outro amante de livros, ela se sentia... bem, sentia como se encontrasse um compatriota ao viajar por outro país.

📖 A noiva do capitão — Tessa Dare

[bilbotargaryen]

I CANNOT

[mermaidsirennikita]

lol every time I recommend a Tessa Dare book, I remember when she was like "I actually think it would be cool if that character was gay in the adaptation", and they all started freaking out because Tessa knows Julia Quinn in real life and this NATURALLY meant that character would be gay in the show, which was NOT AT ALL something they had an issue with except it WOULD ruin their lives

so they started accusing Tessa (who, again, bothered them because she knew Julia Quinn) (and is a very successful romance writer in her own right, and probably one of the most successful in the past 20 years until she took her writing break) of like... clout chasing?

that shit was some of the most ridiculous web behavior I've ever seen fr

[roseunspindle]

September TBR 2024

[b-andherbooks]

realizing why i love natalie portman's gown 🌸💚

Natalie Portman's 2024 Golden Globes dress captures the mood of Clio from Tessa Dare's Say Yes to the Marquess in her wedding dress in an English meadow ✨

[triviareads]

Any good marriage for convenience romance books?

I actually had a hard time with this one because there are so many historicals where the marriage is convenient for one party, or like, convenient in that otherwise she'll be "ruined" or she's possibly pregnant. But here are some of the ones where both parties agree to marry without any (or much) external pressure:

Historical:

Convergence of Desire by Felicity Niven: Harry wants to devote her energies to proving Fermat's Theorem (which I now know way too much about) rather than being out in society, and Thomas needs a rich wife, so they decide to marry and Harry even says he can sleep with whoever after they marry..... unfortunately this man is only able to get it up for her soon enough.

Fiona and the Enigmatic Earl by Grace Callaway: Fiona wants to be free to continue her work as a member of an investigative agency, Lady Charlotte's Society of Angels, and Hawk wants to marry but without any emotional entanglements and to continue his spy work, so they agree to a marriage of convenience where neither party will hinder the other.

How the Wallflower was Won by Eva Leigh: After fucking up his sister and best friend's (DOM MFING KILBURN) marriage, Finn needs to marry or he'll be cut off, and Tabitha wants to join an influential intellectual society that only admits married women, and so marriage it is.

The Scot of Mine by Sophie Jordan: Kind of a marriage of convenience? Except the terms aren't laid out super clearly beforehand and Clara's brother does have a hand in the marriage, but this one is too funny to not include. Clara lies about being pregnant to escape marriage to an asshole, but when she's sent to Scotland, she meets Hunt, a laird who has a generational curse on him which means he will die before his heir is born. So Hunt decides to marry her because she's pregnant with someone else's baby so obviously, he won't die!

Except, well, it's a lie, and he finishes inside her multiple times after they're married so........

The Beast of Beswick by Amalie Howard: Astrid proposes marriage to Thane, a scarred misanthrope duke, so that her sister can escape marriage to the man who ruined Astrid's reputation. Thane eventually agrees because he's intensely attracted to her but has no intention of falling in love with her.

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare: Another scarred duke, this time in want of a wife that won't faint when she sees him so he can begat heirs; Emma is the seamstress who made his former fiancée's wedding dress and shows up for payment, but Ashbury decides she'll do just fine as a wife.

Worth Any Price Lisa Kleypas: The only male virgin in Kleypas-verse (well at least in the beginning), Nick Gentry is tasked with finding Charlotte on behalf of her family and fiancé, but it turns out the fiancé is, among other things, deffo a groomer so he agrees to marry her to protect her.

Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas: You know the deal with this one; St. Vincent needs to marry a rich heiress since he's about to be cut off and his attempted kidnapping of Lillian failed miserably, and Evie needs to escape her abusive relatives, so off to Gretna Green it is.

Contemporary:

Lush Money by Angelina M Lopez: Prince Mateo agrees to marry billionaire Roxanne and have sex with her three nights a month so she can have a kid in exchange for money for his impoverished country. The resentment in this man is real, not that it stops him from calling her mi mujer and jumping her every 10 seconds. Basically, the only wife guy I condone.

Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey: Natalie and August agree to marry so Natalie can access start-up capital and August can improve his shoddy vineyards. I really loved August's (objectively dumb) no-PiV-sex-until-she-won't-regret-it rule because it actually made the wedding night kinda great, and it also drew out tension until they had no choice but to admit their feelings for one another.

The Harlequin fave Jackie Ashenden very helpfully made a page on her website devoted to all her marriage of convenience books, and yes, I recommend all of them.

Crowning His Lost Princess by Caitlin Crews: Warlord touches down in a Kansas (?) field and announces that this farmer gal was switched at birth, is actually a princess, and that they must marry for political reasons.

Trust Fund Fiancé by Naima Simone: Reagan needs access to her inheritance and proposes a marriage of convenience to her friend Zeke in order to gain access. This one is also technically friends-to-lovers but a really well done one.

*tbh your best bet in terms of modern marriages of conveniences might be harlequins because the stakes feel somewhat high and the tension is real, unlike a lot of contemporary romances which have people marrying to like, inherit a family ski resort or something.