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Book Review: Kiss of a Duke

July 14, 2020 by Elizabeth Drake

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Beautiful cover!

Beautiful cover, NYT Best Selling author I had not heard of before, and the book was being offered for $0.99 during COVID. Yep, I snapped it up and finally got around to reading it.

The book is spectacular!

It is the second in the series, but it totally stands alone. Wouldn’t have even known it was the second in a series if it hadn’t said so.

The dialogue is sharp and witty. Seriously. It made me grin and even laugh out loud a few times. The sass, I loved the sass. So well done!

The characters, all of them, are terrific. Real. Quirky. Fun. And no one is too stupid to live. As a matter-of-fact, the heroine is literally brilliant. And it shows. Her friends are brilliant, too.

The plot is standard Regency fare, which is fine and what I was searching for amid the fear of a pandemic and everything else going on. I was not looking for a ride down a waterfall, but a nice float down a river. I more than got it. Best of all, the plot was real all the way through, and without filler.

The research that went into this book is stellar. You can tell the author understood the subject, and loved how the heroine saw the whole world through the eyes of a chemist. It was perfect!

I picked up two more books by this author. That says how much I liked this one.

Filed Under: Book Review, Uncategorized Tagged With: Alchemist, artist, Book Review, Christmas, duke, love, research, Romance Novels, Romance Writer

Map!!

February 19, 2020 by Elizabeth Drake

I have had more than a few requests to include a map of Tamryn in my books so readers have a better idea of what the world looks like. This is the main kingdom where many books in the Knights of Valor series are set.

Except, my art skills are…well, I am at the stick figure level.

So, I got myself a late Christmas present, and I paid an artist to create a map. Here is is!

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Map of Tamryn

I still need to figure out how to get it into the actual books, both print and e-books. That is much easier to type than it will be to actually do.

But I was too excited not to share this.

I hope it helps to put the world into perspective.

I am not sure how I will add new places. Or how to create a city map of Aerius itself. Or how to create maps of other places like Qumaref and lands still in the rough draft phase of writing, but right now, I am really happy to have a map of Tamryn.

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: artist, Knight of Valor, map, present, romance author, Romance Novel, Romance Writer, Tamryn

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