#Sarah maclean

[triviareads]

do you have more recommendations for Penelope featherington-coded fmcs? both from the book version and the show version.

Callie from Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean: She's fat/plus-sized and a spinster who realizes she never tried to stand out or grab life by the horns (by herself!) so she comes up with a list of scandalous things she wants to do, the first of which is asking a notorious rake for her first kiss. Ralston is immediately intrigued and soon becomes OBSESSED (no seriously the way he's just so deeply into her body is everything) as he helps her accomplish all the things on her list. There is a very hot carriage scene and (an actual) mirror scene.

Grace from When The Duke Was Wicked by Lorraine Heath: The show!polin dynamic basically; Grace is a redhead with a certain body insecurity who asks her older friend to help her find a suitor who truly loves her. Lovingdon is a jaded rake Who Can Never Love Again after the death of his first wife and son, but that doesn't stop him from doing all these sweet things for Grace and debauching her in every corner while informing her that a man who truly loved her would do all of this... which isn't him. obvi.

Penelope from The Duchess Hunt by Lorraine Heath: Not just because her name is Penelope, but the pining vibes in this are impeccable; she's the duke's secretary and this dumb dumb man is making her find him a wife while being all "hm the ideal wife would look like Penelope, talk like Penelope, smell like Penelope.... I WONDER WHAT THAT MEANS". Anyway she's so turned on by a hand touch that she masturbates in his carriage and LATER ON TELLS HIM and then HE GETS HER OFF IN THE CARRIAGE.

Jane from The Truth About Cads and Dukes by Elisa Braden: More plus/size-fat rep and she's a wallflower; she's compromised by a guy name Colin (lol) and Colin's older duke brother Harrison steps in to marry her. He's super icy and cold, but he's actually wildly obsessed with Jane's bod after 10 seconds of marriage and once she realizes that, she uses it to her advantage by means of low-cut gowns and erotically stripping her gloves :D

Sarah from Temptations of a Wallflower by Eva Leigh: Sarah is a wallflower who moonlights as infamous erotica writer The Lady of Dubious Quality, but like, instead of ragging on other women, she's actually doing her part to educate women about sex through her stories and provide entertaining material. The hero Jeremy is a vicar who's charged with hunting down The Lady Of Dubious Quality, and unknowingly ends up falling for, and then marrying her. It's also really cute that as Sarah falls in love with Jeremy, her erotica becomes more and more romantic.

#sarah maclean #elisa braden #eva leigh #lorraine heath #romance novels #historical romance #ask #bridgerton #penelope featherington

[fated-mates]

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#sarah maclean #paramore

[sarah-maclean-completist]

"I knew Knockout was going to take on something pretty modern and heavy, as well—the realization that criminal justice and social justice are often at odds. This is a massive conflict—one that hits at the core of a person’s identity, especially when they realize they are part of a problem, not a solution. So I was excited and very nervous about tackling it. But I’m very proud of where I ended up. Romance is a deeply political genre because it deals with such fundamental issues—who is afforded happiness, whose love is valued, what joy and hope and triumph look like in the hands of those who are not always prioritized for those things. I have always written with this as my true north. And every book, I feel like I have to prove it to publishing, to reviewers, to readers. I think the learning moment is always the same…the realization that I will always have to convince people that this genre is a powerful, important reflection of not just who we are, but who we might become."

Sarah MacLean: If It Feels Scary, You’re Writing It Right

#sarah maclean #writing #writers digest #political art #criminal justice #social justice

[sarahmaclean]

Knockout is here! This one comes with very a very big hero who feels even bigger feelings for my curvy heroine who is pure, delightful, explosive (💥) mayhem. It’s full of all my favorite things: 

Two people who are absolutely gone for each other

A group of friends who clock it from the start and get popcorn

Justifiable face punching

An exasperated bodyguard of a hero

A heroine who has no intention of being body guarded

Banter--my god, these two and their BANTER just get a room already! (spoiler: they get a room)

Only one bed in a London snowstorm 

Me and you against the patriarchy

💥💥💥💥

I hope you’ll love this one as much as I do. I am so so thrilled to share it with you, because I miss these two a whole lot, and I can’t wait for y’all to meet them.

Get it wherever you get your books, or at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books or your local independent bookstore!

#knockout #sarah maclean #tinybooksbigfeelings #historical romance that bangs

[dhaaruni]

1. Day of the Duchess by Sarah MacLean

I'm a day late but I'm recommending 14 romance novels for the first 14 days of February! I primarily read historicals but I'll throw in some contemporaries. In no particular order, here we go.

Sarah MacLean is braver than the US Marines for writing a book where the hero very much cheats on the heroine while they're married (admittedly after she presumably traps him into marriage) and tries to win her back by making her pick his next wife (he’s a duke, he needs kids).

There's an absolutely unreal grovel in this one, and I cried (in a good way).

#book blogging #romance novels #book recs #Personal #Sarah MacLean

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"You were to take her home." "The lady is rather... unbiddable." "Thank you. That might well be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me."

Sarah McLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name

#book quotes #bookish quotes #book quotations #sarah maclean #a rogue by any other name #regency era #regency romance #georgian era #greek retelling #greek myth retellings #hades and persephone #hades x persephone retelling #hades x persephone #penelope #marquess of bourne #page 366

[barrylyga]

With a gorgeous cover and incredible interior art by the inimitable @colleendoran, GENERATION WONDER hit shelves one year ago today!

The New Age of Heroes launched with 13 amazing stories by some astonishing authors, including Sarah Maclean, Paul Levitz, Sterling Gates, Danielle Paige, Morgan Baden, Anna-Marie McLemore, Varian Johnson, Lamar Giles, Joseph Bruchac, Elizabeth Eulberg, Matthew Phillion, Axie Oh, and yours truly!

If you haven't already sampled the delights awaiting you in this anthology, I implore you to do so now. You can order it here:

#generation wonder #colleen doran #barry lyga #elizabeth eulberg #sarah maclean #morgan baden #paul levitz #lamar giles #varian johnson #anna marie mclemore #audiobook #superheroes #origins #sterling gates #axie oh

[readyforbooks]

All she cared was that he was there, and he smelled like leather and amber, and he radiated heat liked the sun, and her heart was banging about in her chest, and his fingers were stroking over her wrist in little circles that were going to make her mad if he didn't...

—Sarah Maclean, Knockout

#he smelled like #tommy #knockout #sarah maclean #book boyfriend #quotes

[lowgrace]

Sarah MacLean, Knockout 6 out of 5 💥

Firstly, I should mention how wonderful this cover is. It is just marvellous … I wasn’t even able to do a proper fancasting. Just the woman on the cover is such a great illustration of Imogen that non of my own options beat it. So I decided to just skip fancasting someone famous as I usually do. Or maybe it was that I just waited for this book so much that I could only imagen the “cover girl” as Imogen. What of Tommy? In my head, he was a fairly beardier and bigger version of Andrew Garfield. No offence, Andrew, you are amazing!

Secondly. To the characters. I was so in love with both of the main characters from previous books, and was able to fall in love even more. They both are extremely beautiful souls. And a reformed policemen (against which occupation I have very strong feelings (coming from a shitty corrupt country with the worst forces possible). To say that Imogen is chaotic in the best possible way wouldn’t be enough because she is also so many more things like brilliant, caring, witty, loyal, curious, and overall self sufficient. She didn’t need someone to make her compute, she just was. This is what I like about this stories so much. These matched are partners most of all.

Tommy and Imogen connection, attraction and relationship development is also outstanding. From the beginning of book, we kind of knew about their traits. But their backstories were also a good touch in understanding who their are and how they came to be like that. The wit! The verbal sparing between Im and Tommy made me genuinely smile/laugh read.

And of course the story itself deserves an honourable mention. Sarah MacLean is the queen of building intriguing story. It is always just another separate main character in her books. I would be bald and compare my 2 favourite authors here. I absolutely love how Lisa Kleypas pays attention to politics, social dilemmas of that time and builds worlds in a highly educationed fashion. But what Sarah Maclean does … she builds stories very effortlessly, where she includes important topics and gives voices to women in a very natural way. There may be less direct narration on human, women, workers rights, but they are part of her stories and it becomes obvious what opinions she has and applies to her characters.

Okay, to the Duchess. I soooo want to say “I knew it”. But not to spoil anything I won’t tell what I knew. I’m so hooked and ready for her story. Just another long year/two years of waiting if we are lucky. But good things take time, so I am not mad, but very grateful to my favourite authors for keeping the genre alive, vivid, loud and beautiful 🤍🤍🤍

#TommyGoBoom

#historical romance #love story #period romance #bridgerton #fancast #victorian #moodboard #romance #booklover #regency #sarah maclean #knockout

[myplussizebookshelf]

Need alternatives for Romancing Mr Bridgerton?

My top 3:

3. Flame and Ember by MA Nichols

2. How to start a scandal by Madeline Martin (18+)

1. Nine rules to break when romancing a rake by Sarah MacLean (18+)

#booklr #plus size heroine #romancing mister bridgerton #ma nichols #Madeline Martin #sarah maclean #flame and ember #nine rules to break when romancing a rake #every one of this books as themes/tropes of rmb but sometimes not #simon and mina are giving demivibes like Penelope and colin #violet is a secret writer #and 9 rules has also a carriage and mirror also totally a b00b guy

[triviareads]

can you recommend for me a good historical romance with a heroine who is in STEM?

I read one good earl deserves a lover on your recommendation and I really liked Pippa. do you have other books with heroines like her?

Sure! Here they are:

In Want of a Viscount by Lorraine Heath (pub date 2/20/24): The heroine is a businesswoman and inventor who invented the typewriter (or a better version of it) and is very interested in engineering. The hero clocks this and even takes her out on dates to see Big Ben (no, not a euphemism but Stuff does happen up there) and to a club so she can disassemble a roulette wheel and I thought he was very hot for that.

Convergence of Desire by Felicity Niven: The heroine is so focused on proving Fermat's Theorem that she agrees to a marriage of convenience to a local rake so she can focus on math while he's allowed to fuck anyone he likes (he predictably can't get it up for anyone but her shortly after their marriage).

My Kind of Earl by Vivienne Lorret: The heroine accidentally incites a riot in a brothel and escapes by using one of her experiments, a beetroot bomb that makes everyone pink. She's generally an inquisitive, experimental sort from what I remember.

Knockout by Sarah MacLean: Another gal with a penchant for explosives, Imogen tinkers with explosives in her brother's basement, but don't worry it's for a good cause, namely her vigilante group, the Hell's Belles. Her expertise is also called upon to investigate a series of bombings.

When a Scot Ties a Knot by Tessa Dare: Maddie does animal illustrations for scientific books for naturalists and dreams of f illustrating multi-issue encyclopedias. A subplot in this books does involve lobsters fucking so Maddie can illustrate them accurately.

The Detective Duke by Scarlett Scott: I'm pretty sure the heroine in this one invented the first electric frying pan.

The Governess Game by Tessa Dare: The heroine goes around fixing clocks in aristocrats' houses before she accidentally becomes a governess for the slutty hero's new wards, and her one true passion is astronomy and looking for comets.

#book recs #lorraine heath #vivienne lorret #sarah maclean #felicity niven #tessa dare #scarlett scott #historical romance #romance novels #ask

[sarah-maclean-completist]

Pretty good list.

#sarah maclean #best of 2023 #best books #knockout #romance books #romance recs

[sarahmaclean]

🔥 Imogen 🔥 is 🔥 coming 🔥 August 2023

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell’s Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble).  

With her headful of wild curls and wilder ideas and an unabashed love of experiments and explosives, society has labeled Lady Imogen Loveless peculiar…and doesn’t know she’s one of the Hell’s Belles—a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London.

Thomas Peck is not most of London. The brilliant detective fought his way off the streets and into a promising career through sheer force of will and a keen ability to see things others miss, like the fact that Imogen isn’t peculiar…she’s pandemonium. If you ask him, she requires a keeper. When her powerful family discovers her late-night activities, they couldn’t agree more…and they know just the man for the task.

Thomas wants nothing to do with guarding Imogen. He is a grown man with a proper job and no time for the lady’s incendiary chaos, no matter how lushly it is packaged. But some assignments are too explosive to pass up, and the gruff detective is soon caught up in Imogen’s world, full of her bold smiles and burning secrets…and a fiery passion that threatens to consume them both.

Once more: thoughts and prayers for Tommy Peck.

#sarah maclean #knockout #hell's belles book three #imogen x tommy #plus sized heroines forever and ever amen

[dhaaruni]

Would go to war for @sarahmaclean

#sarah maclean #quotes #romance novels #links #book blogging

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"As you care not a bit about my wishes, I have decided to take my own pleasures in hand. As long as I receive invitations to adventure, I shall accept them."

Sarah McLean, A Rogue by Any Other Name

#book quotes #bookish quotes #book quotations #sarah maclean #a rogue by any other name #georgian era #regency era #regency romance #greek retelling #greek myth retellings #hades and persephone #hades x persephone retelling #hades x persephone #page 319

[annebrontesrequiem]

Strong contender for best line in any book ever right here

#(book is one good earl deserves a lover and is a banger I must say) #romance novel #sarah maclean #nsft #bern speaks