(These are all personal preference on a scale of 1-5 (yours ratings may vary depending what gives you feels and how you prefer you sex scenes written, etc) except the Steam Scale which follows our chart from The Ton and Tartans Book Club ) Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥

Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑 (I am not used to listening to audio – I am finding it harder to judge the length this way) I also bought MY FAIR CONCUBINE by this author, so I'm hoping I might like that one better, as this one was, sadly, a bust. I was going to try to push through anyway, but as I approached the halfway mark, I found myself growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of chemistry between the two main characters, and the slow, plodding plot (it's basically one of those books where the hero and heroine just wander around, and I'm not super into travel stories).

It falls into the trap that a lot of these Harlequin historicals do, where it just kind of feels bland and, as one of my friends called it, 'condensed.' It's like the book equivalent of eating oatmeal- there's nothing offensive in it, but it's also really plain, and isn't as satisfying as juicy bacon. I bought it anyway because I love my friends but sometimes they can be wrong (lol) and I was so sure I was going to love this. I gravitated to this book because of its premise (a girl running away from her evol fiance who's been trained in the art of blades! and a White guy who's like a mercenary knight who's super attracted to her!), but I was a little worried about starting the book because the ratings are so low.

I've read a couple of Lin's books before, the Pingkang Li mysteries, and a collection of short stories that are all set in and loosely connected to her Tang Dynasty series. Please, let's make one of the new romance trends to have kick-butt ladies with swords gracing the covers. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest Gunpowder Alchemy (Gunpowder Chronicles #1)įor updates, sign up for her newsletter at: įind out more about Jeannie Lin online at Her books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal with The Dragon and the Pearl listed among Library Journal's Best Romances of 2011. After four years of trying to break into publishing with an Asian-set historical, her 2009 Golden Heart Award–winning manuscript, Butterfly Swords, sold to Harlequin Mills & Boon. Jeannie started writing her first romance while working as a high school science teacher in South Central Los Angeles. When her best friend introduced her to romance novels in middle school, the stage was set. USA TODAY Bestselling author Jeannie Lin grew up fascinated with stories of Western epic fantasy and Eastern martial arts adventures.

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