Welcome to The HR Addict — a space for readers who take their historical romance seriously. Here you’ll find honest, thoughtful reviews of the books worth your time (and the ones that aren’t).
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Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice
Last Reviews
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‘With This Kiss’, by Eloisa James
Read more: ‘With This Kiss’, by Eloisa JamesI love this author, but seriously, Eloisa? Does any mother tell her daughter, “go seduce that man and force him to marry you, because I know that, deep down, and despite him having the nerve to chase after your younger sister, it’s you he actually likes”? Based purely on intuition, apparently. And coming from a…
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‘Four Nights With the Duke’ by Eloisa James
Read more: ‘Four Nights With the Duke’ by Eloisa JamesThere’s one thing I appreciate about Eloisa James: the humor woven between the lines. It runs through her books, sometimes declared outright, sometimes subtle, but always able to make even a torn-dress scene bearable. This book, Four Nights With the Duke, is one of my favorites by the author. Delicious to read. To start, I…
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Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love by Numbers, Book 1), by Sarah MacLean
Read more: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love by Numbers, Book 1), by Sarah MacLeanConfession: it’s always harder for me to write about a book I loved than one I felt lukewarm about. And it’s even easier to talk about a novel I truly disliked. But when I love a book as much as I loved this one — the first in Sarah MacLean’s Love by Numbers trilogy —…
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Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love by Numbers – Book 2), by Sarah MacLean
Read more: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord (Love by Numbers – Book 2), by Sarah MacLeanConfession: for me, this is the most boring book in this trilogy by one of my favorite RH authors. The premise, I’ll admit, is genuinely interesting. In an era when women lived subjugated to male power, the daughter of a late, dissipated aristocrat — who is responsible for raising her ten-year-old brother, the current Earl…
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Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover (The Rules of Scoundrels – Book 4), by Sarah MacLean
Read more: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover (The Rules of Scoundrels – Book 4), by Sarah MacLean“Open to me” Lady Georgina Pearson, sister of the powerful Duke of Leighton, gave herself for love in the arms of a man at sixteen (or was she simply a victim of love’s illusion?), and in return received abandonment and the challenge of becoming a single mother at a time when that was the ultimate…
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A Week To Be Wicked (Spindle Cove #2), by Tessa Dare
Read more: A Week To Be Wicked (Spindle Cove #2), by Tessa Dare“She would always lead him back from the dark” Confession: the first two Tessa Dare books I read didn’t excite me all that much, but I absolutely adored A Week to Be Wicked. The way it’s built — a journey where everything goes wrong, from robberies and kidnappings to chases and carriages stuck in the…
