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Harlequin Historical #90
5 Stars
My Absolute Favorite Historical Romance
There are older romances I enjoy out of pure nostalgia. I know they’re not perfect, nevertheless, I like them. Stranger in My Arms by Louisa Rawlings is one of the rare flawless gems that gets better with every reread. It first caught my attention over thirty years ago, and I love it more today than I did back then. It even earned the treasured seal of approval from Kathe Robin, the legendary book reviewer and editor of the now, sadly, defunct Romantic Times.
Stranger in My Arms is sublime perfection, from the first, almost whimsical, paragraph:
... Read more “Historical Romance Review: Stranger in My Arms by Louisa Rawlings”If Charmiane de Viollet remembered the Reign of Terror at all, it was as a vision of Aunt Sophie running about shrieking, her fleshy bosoms popping from her bodice as she snatched wildly at the canary that had escaped its cage. The rest of the story had been recited to Charmiane so often that it had assumed its own reality: the desperate flight from their townhouse in Paris—the carriage loaded with silver and luggage and oddments of furniture—the mad race for the Swiss border, the mobs and the looted carriage, Papa’s final fatal stroke.
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