Diary of a Middle-Aged Romantic

  Who’s That Earl (Love and Let Spy, Book One) Susanna Craig Stars:  A solid ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (great characters, fun story, witty dialogue, DOGS, General Scott is the GOAT, there's a villain, there is mystery, SCOTLAND)           Heat rating:   🔥🔥🔥🔥 (I’m still working on the rating system, and will add more to the SEX-AND-SPOILERS section .) I love Susanna Craig. I’ve read all her books. I like this one a lot and would read it again, which is a huge tell for me. One small thing—I hate the cover. The picture really looks like her arms are on backwards and gives me a The Ring -type vibe whenever I see it. Actually it looks like her head is on backwards, which gives me a Beetlejuice vibe. But I don’t read books for cover art. So, time to focus and tell you about WHO'S THAT EARL . . . ( you knew those ellipses were coming, didn't you? ) Here's our hero! Lieutenant Thomas Sutherland . I liked him from the first page. It starts...

Favorite Series 📕📗  Like I said, this will be a list dump and not ranked. These are the series with books I have purchased (I usually try the library first--shout out to the Libby app!) and have either already reread or plan to reread. I don't love every single book in each series, of course. But being on this list means I liked at least one of the books (and usually more). There are many reasons I like these series/books--could be I loved the heroine, the hero was hot, the premise was different (not the same old HEA*), the sex was smokin', the author writes beautifully, the characters were different (scarred, blind, different races, same sex couples, etc.), I loved the dogs/cats/horses/pigs, or it featured my absolute favorite type of character (the character that you HATED in the first few books, but ended up adoring later**--shout out to Kerrigan Byrne's character SIR CARLTON MORLEY in the Victorian Rebels series and then the Goode Girls series , but specifically i...