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Book Review: Chasing the Bride by Erica Ridley

Book Review: Chasing the Bride by Erica Ridley This is my fourth Erica Ridley read. To sum, I'll be reading a fifth! @NetGalley @EricaRidley #BookReiew #RegencyRomance #BookTwt #ChasingTheBride #NetGalley #Books

So I read a lot of Erica Ridley! As you see here with Defying the Earl Book Review: Defying the Earl by Erica Ridley And here, with Taming the Rake Book Review: Taming the Rake by Erica Ridley And here with The Rake Mistake: The Rake Mistake by Erica Hadley Besides having the author in common, you can also see that each of these books was a NetGalley read! Which is even better! I get to…

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Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb: What if Cinderella fell for the handsome prince’s… sister?

Cynthia lives a life of drudgery, toiling for her stepmother and stepsisters without receiving gratitude or pay. Every day is the same… until a royal retinue sweeps into town, inviting every unwed maiden to vie for the hand of the visiting prince. 

The moment she lays eyes on the prince’s beautiful sister, Cynthia is smitten. She’s never been to a ball, and she’s determined not to miss this one. But when her family refuses to allow her to attend—not that Cynthia even has a gown to wear—it will take a miracle to escape the attic and catch the eye of the princess who holds the key to her heart!

Review:

A sapphic Cinderella retelling where she falls for the prince's sister??? Perfection. Cynthia has been regulated to a life of being a maid after her father remarried and died. She has to look after her stepmother and stepsisters, just counting down the days until she can make enough money to leave. When the visiting prince comes to town, someone catches Cynthia's eye, the prince's stunning sister. The moment Cynthia saw her, she was interested. To her shock the princess has an equal interest in her... that is if she can keep her brother from trying to steal her from her. This was such a fun take on the classic and I do adore sapphic retellings and this one was really cute.

*Thanks Netgalley and WebMotion for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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ARC Review: Her Princess at Midnight by Erica Ridley

3.25/5. Releases 11/10/2023.

Vibes: ~it's a Cinderella story~, light sapphic love, actual? royalty? in fairy tales? a la Ever After, and instalove

Cynthia suffers through drudgery, doing whatever her stepmother and stepsisters demand. Then an Italian prince sweeps into town, ready to search through all unwed maidens in his quest for a suitable wife. But Cynthia doesn't care about the prince; she cares about Princess Ammalia, his charismatic sister. And after they meet, nothing, including her stepmother and stepsisters, is going to stop Cynthia from finding the princess at the ball.

This one is a short book (basically a novella) and those are hard to balance; I always have to give people credit for swinging at a believable love story in such a short amount of page time. And in many ways, it works here. It's charming, the lovers are sweet. I would definitely recommend this to people looking for a quick, happy sapphic fairy tale read. For me... I kind of wanted a little more, and maybe unrealistically so (I missed this being around 100-150 pages when I requested it, which is on me). But overall, I'd say it's pretty solid, even if it doesn't go quite as hard as I prefer.

Quick Takes:

--I actually really liked that this was set in a solidly real world. It reminded me of Ever After, and honestly? The prince and princess being Italian made sense--they could be royals without quite as many implications and responsibilities as a member of the British royal family would have had at the time. Something about that just added to it for me; and I think it was especially useful for the novella format, as you don't need quite as much worldbuilding when it's set in... well, our world.

--Ammalia and Cynthia do kind of fall in love pretty quickly. While instalove often doesn't work for me, I'm not inherently against it; it can be done well, and indeed, it's kind of hard to avoid in a book this short (though it can be avoided). And shit, if you can have instalove in a million different m/f books, I'm certainly not going to knock a sapphic Cinderella retelling for having it. Cynthia and Ammalia have a cute chemistry, and honestly, I was down. Is this the deepest romance I've ever read? No. But were you looking for that from a quick, easy fairy tale retelling? I wasn't.

--I think where I struggled a little was that Erica Ridley's voice is very relaxing and nice, but it's not super distinct. I wonder a little what someone like Tessa Dare would've done with this concept--simply because she does have a very strong authorial voice, and I think that's really helpful when you're writing something a little shorter. Tessa's voice naturally does a lot of tonal work that I found somewhat missing here.

The Sex:

It's quick, brief, and pretty innocent--not quite closed door, but for all intents and purposes, closed door.

While I wouldn't say this novel thrilled me, I did find it pleasant. I would definitely recommend Olivia Waite readers try it out, especially if you're in the mood for a soft place to land.

Thanks to Netgalley and WebMotion for providing me with a copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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A nicely told tale (as always from Erica) that follows on from the story of the school for indigent girls we’ve read about before in this series.

This is now the story of Faith, the co-founder/headmistress/accountant. We now find out how her family came into their money and just how recent it was – they are seriously nouveau-riche and ‘trade’ and thus far from respectable to the haughty ‘ton’. We also meet young Christina. the book-worm. But I found her reading matter a little young by my standards but still, she was Victorian/Regency period and thus perhaps it was advanced for that age.

Victorian/Regency morality and class prejudice are nicely explored.

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ARC Review: Ten Days with a Duke by Erica Ridley

I really enjoyed this! I thought I loved the previous two 12 Dukes of Christmas books but nope, this one's my favorite. Where Erica Ridley shines is creating characters that are interesting and unique and that grab you from the first page and make you root for them. Olive and Eli and their fathers were so real and vivid and leapt off the page. They were believable and sympathetic and I was rooting for them the whole time.

I love everything about this novel. I love how competent Olive is and how she knows her worth (as far as running a horse farm is concerned). I love how Eli dreads horses and wants nothing but to be left alone to study botany and discover cures for childbed fever. I love how they're drawn to one another despite being sworn enemies. I even love their fathers' feuding and manipulations.

All of it was grand and made for an extremely satisfying romance. Five enthusiastic stars from me!

*Thanks to Erica Ridley, NetGalley, and WebMotion for providing an e-arc to review.

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Review: Never Say Duke

Review: Never Say Duke

Never Say Duke Erica Ridley 12 Dukes of Christmas #4

Publisher: WebMotion Publication date: 5-Jan-2019 Date Started: 4-Feb-2019 Date Finished: 8-Feb-2019 Format: eARC Pages: 180 Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Regency Romance ASIN: B07J9J38JY Source: NetGalley Rating:

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Miss Virginia Underwood cannot resist rescuing a stray. Her latest find turns out to be…

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NetGalley Book Review: Defying the Earl by Erica Ridley

NetGalley Book Review: Defying the Earl by Erica Ridley @NetGalley @EricaRidley #BookTwt #BookBlog #BookReview #Books #RegencyRomance #Romance

Defying the Earl is my third Erica Ridley book, so I may as well admit that I like her books and commit to reading the Lords in Love series (this is the second book I’ve read in the series) and The Wild Wynchesters! This particular book, Defying the Earl, came out on the 21st of April! I’m thrilled to have gotten a copy by Webmotion via NetGalley. It’s a short read at 221 pages! As I mentioned…

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Excerpt: One Night of Passion by Erica Ridley

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Book Title: One Night of Passion

Author: Erica Ridley Publisher: WebMotion Genre: Historical Fiction , Romance Pub Date 14 May 2019

Excerpt: One Night of Passion

One Night of Passion (Wicked Dukes Club Book 3)

Earlier this year, Mr. Thaddeus Middleton had realized he’d been placing all his attention on the same pool of ladies. The outgoing ones, the flirtatious ones, the ones who had known him for…

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