Historical Romance Book Club discussion

For August 2020 we are reading HRs featuring Widow/widowers.

Rules of Nominations :
Not more than 2 nominations per member.
No book we have read as a group read in the last 2 yrs. (Please check the group's Bookshelf)
No author we have read in the last one year.
We will do two rounds of voting to get the two BOTMs.

Lists:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8...

Nominations end on June 15.

Authors not eligible for August 2020 Group read

Mary Balogh - July 2020
Meredith Duran - July 2020
Suzanne Enoch - June 2020
Anne Mallory - June 2020
Julie Garwood - May, 2020
Lorraine Heath - May, 2020
Judith Ivory - April 2020
Gaelen Foley - April 2020
Mary Jo Putney - March 2020
Caroline Linden - March 2020
Teresa Medeiros - February 2020
Amanda Quick - February 2020
Sabrina Jeffries - January, 2020
Eloisa James - December, 2019
Kerrigan Byrne - November, 2019
Tessa Dare - October, 2019
Olivia Parker - September, 2019
Carolyn Jewel - August, 2019

Hi, Joanna, I think there is a typo in the second thread.

I believe you meant: "Authors not eligible for August 2020 Group read"

Missy wrote: "Hi, Joanna, I think there is a typo in the second comment.

I believe you meant: "Authors not eligible for August 2020 Group read""

Thanks! It is updated now.

I nominate Beguiling the Beauty by Sherry Thomas and Simple Jess by Pamela Morsi.

I nominate Why Lords Lose Their Hearts by Manda Collins and Lord of a Thousand Nights by Madeline Hunter.

I added a few books and new-to-me authors from the lists to my TBR.

My two noms:
Silk Is for Seduction by Loretta Chase. I've really enjoyed some of Ms Chase's books before, but somehow have never tried this series. This one has been on my tbr for a while. I'm assuming it has a widow or widower because it's on one of the lists.


A Soft Kiss In Winter by Lily Graison. Set in Montana Territory in the 1880s.
A book and author I've never heard of before spotting it on one of the lists, but it has a high rating and lots of good reviews so I'm prepared to try it. I'd like to challenge myself with a BOTM I haven't read before.


NOT a nom, but a 'widow' book I really liked is Lisa Kleypas' Devil's Daughter, but it's not one of my noms for the above-mentioned reason. But if anyone is looking to read more books with this trope, this is a good one. The widow part is handled sensitively and well in this book IMO.


Another one that I can't nom but it's also a lovely widow read is Mary Balogh's beautiful book Slightly Dangerous. A must-read HR for those who haven't read it.

I will nominate by Julia Justiss. A Most Unconventional Match also Nicola Cornick Whisper of Scandal

I nominate Lady Derring Takes a Lover and When a Marquess Loves a Woman

Darbella wrote: "I will nominate When He Was Wicked Julia Quinn and To Sir Phillip, With Love[bookcover:To Sir Phillip, With Love|1103..."

These are two of my favorites in the series. It would be hard to choose in my opinion.

I nominate To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt. This was my first Hoyt and holds a special place for me because of it. I also think it’s very good with an interesting historical background with some HOT love scenes. Not quite as dark as the Maiden Lane series. It is the first in the series. The heroine is a widow.

I will go ahead and nominate a second book: A Tale of Two Lovers by Maya Rodale. The heroine is a widow. This is also an enemies-to-lovers and marriage of convenience. It’s a lot of fun, which is what I expect with Rodale. It is the second in the series.

Romancing the Countess by Ashley March- This is an emotionally complex story about two people's separate paths towards healing following the betrayals by their now deceased spouses with one another. While Leah embraced life and her new independence with great gusto, Sebastian was consumed by anger and hurt and his pain remained fresh. Yet in spite of their different ways of dealing with their shared secret heartbreak, they found themselves irresistibly drawn towards each other. This could have been written by Sherry Thomas - such is the emotional intensity and depth of the characters and the story.

Till Next We Meet by Karen Ranney - A beautifully written and very moving story with an epistolary component

I'm intrigued by lots of these - many I've never come across. I may not even end up voting for my own nominations LOL.

Ana wrote: "I nominate Lady Derring Takes a Lover and When a Marquess Loves a Woman"

YES! These are both great. Lady Derring is super strong JAL work! All the secondary characters are hilarious.

Darbella wrote: "I will nominate When He Was Wicked Julia Quinn and To Sir Phillip, With Love[bookcover:To Sir Phillip, With Love|1103..."

I second the motion for When He Was Wicked! This book has tons of angst and guilt and heat!!

The devil's daughter and the secret diaries of miss miranda cheever :)

Here are our nominations:

Beguiling the Beauty by Sherry Thomas
Simple Jess by Pamela Morsi
Why Lords Lose Their Hearts by Manda Collins
Lord of a Thousand Nights by Madeline Hunter
Silk Is for Seduction by Loretta Chase
A Soft Kiss In Winter by Lily Graison
A Most Unconventional Match by Julia Justiss
Whisper of Scandal by Nicola Cornick
To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn
When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long
When a Marquess Loves a Woman by Vivienne Lorret
To Taste Temptation by Elizabeth Hoyt
A Tale of Two Lovers by Maya Rodale
Romancing the Countess by Ashley March
Till Next We Meet by Karen Ranney
Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas
The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn

Let me know if I missed something or got something wrong— will be a bit before the poll is posted.

The poll is up until June 23!

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...