Category: Rankings
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For those who want writers to be romanced as well as duchesses and wallflowers, this one’s for you.
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Eva Leigh can always be counted on to showcase unique heroines, and in The London Underground trilogy, these women have some brooding secrets. 1. Couting on a Countess: Surprise, surprise, Leigh delivers on morally ambiguous heroines with Tamsyn, a smuggler on the Cornish coast who needs a rich, distant husband in order to keep feeding…
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It’s been awhile since I’ve read a good ol’ historical romance so why not start with one of the greatest romance writers in the good ol’ west.
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Princess for Hire is a delightful fantasy trilogy. For fans who can’t get enough of the idea of tiaras and enjoy socially-conscious protagonists like Mia from The Princess Diaries, try this. Desi is thrilled to find out that not only she has MP-magical potential, but it makes her eligable to work at the Facade Agency,…
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An expy of Britney Spears, Heather Wells is a teen pop has-been. Her long-time boyfriend infamously cheated on her with the newest sensation, Tania Trace, her label dumped her for wanting to write her own songs, her father’s in jail for tax fraud and her mother ran off with her money and her manager. Now…
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Made even more popular by the Netflix adaptation, I read this series back in middle school and as implied by the title, it follows the disgraceful, very late in life, younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Upon her mother’s abandonment, and the threat of boarding school, Enola runs off to London where she unintentionally gets up…
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Zindel is most remembered for early 70s favorites breaking the YA mold with his quirky characters embroiled in mysteries, mundane high school adolescence and the occasional flying saucer, but I discovered him from this series. P.C. Hawke Mysteries follow the titular P.C. and his best friend, Mackenzie solving mysteries in NY in the early aughts.…
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13 year old Diana didn’t expect her new after-school job at her family’s dry cleaners to end up providing so much adventure. After all, it was forced on her by her harsh step-mom, and she can no longer participate in her beloved drama club. But slipping into the garments of the customers, Diana goes from…
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