Ok so I have to admit… I am hooked on the Lizzie Bennet Diaries on youTube. You can find the main vlog HERE though there are offshoots – Adorbs is a Lydia thing (she has her own vlog). They also have Twitter feeds and Facebook and of course the main page. If you liked Pride and Prejudice… well be ready to see the characters as you have never seen them before – modern and everything!!! I skipped a bunch up to be current with the ongoing drama at the time but have been sneaking back to fill in the gaps as I go… Anyway… the Adorbs…

Beauty just woken up

Strike a pose baby

And another

Playing Play Doh with Gavin

Decked out for Chinese New Year thanks to Aunty Xinny

With cookie (made by myself and Bree)

What having kids is TERRIFIC for – look I am NOT the one shoveling

Major icicles

My babies and their lucky money

With bunny

Brown eyes

You never see Emanuel out without that hat! Thanks Aunty Kat

Absorbed in the dinosaurs (Zander left)

This piece by Candice Hern was a freebie find on my Kindle App and definitely a one sitting read for me. The main character is a young lady named Lydia who pines after her brother’s bestfriend – Geoffrey. The entirety of this story is focused at a ball. I don’t want to give away too much of the plot as it is really a short story, but I can give some basics… there is one sexual encounter that is very minor (the word nipple is included), the story is told from Lydia’s point of view and the characters that actually interact with the pairing are limited. 

The beginning of the story is rather cute with Lydia thoroughly unimpressed with her absent brother and one of his friends and works itself along on a misunderstanding that is neither angsty or long held. It is, as a fellow reviewer calls it “my-big-brother’s-friend-doesn’t-know-I’m-alive-but-I-have-a-plan-to-make-him-notice-me story”.  There is some fun dialogue and the price right now on Kindle is great – FREE! So check out Desperate Measuresfor yourself! 

Desperate Measures

I have joined this website that allows people with a Kindle or a Kindle app to borrow approved books for free. Through that medium I found this book by Lizzie Church. Definitely a regency in the Jane Austen sense of the genre and NOT a bodice ripper. The main character is a young woman called Lydia who has lost both her parents. Her father to war and her mother to illness. This left herself and her younger sister Susan alone and basically paupers. So what else is a young woman to do but go to live with family as a poor relative and basically an unpaid companion.

As a poor relative Lydia does not have a lot of freedom with a tyrannical Aunt intent on insuring she “know her place”, an absentee uncle (hiding from the aunt), a female cousin to chatter with and a male cousin to avoid. Enter the love interest and his brother. What I love about this story is that the pace. Though there is a rather jarring encounter with the male cousin I found a little over the top. Though I am sure the author had her reasons for using that particular experience to solidify his character flaws. 

The romance is gentle and of course there are a couple misconceptions on both parts… the locations change through the story and you meet a variety of interesting characters. If you enjoy a CLASSIC regency romance… well this is a definite read. 

Regency Romance