Book Review: The Governess Gambit by Erica Ridley
Format: ebookPublished: 18th December, 2020Age: AdultGenre: Historical Romance Rating: 4/5 Stars This is a prequel book, so I’m sure there were bits I was missing that would have bumped into 5 stars, purely from the fact I haven’t yet read The Duke Heist. I am, however, very keen on doing so after meeting the Wynchesters.…
Book Review: The groom that got away by Sally Clements
Format: ebookPublished: 18th December, 2025Age: AdultGenre: Contemporary Romance Rating: 1/5 Stars If this book wasn’t so short, I would have DNF’d. This is marketed as ‘fun and flirty’ but the characters barely flirted and it wasn’t all that fun. The premise is that April’s sister June is getting married, and invites Matthew, who left her…
2026 Reading Challenges Update #7
It has been hot this year! As I write this, there is finally some relief to the heat, to the point that I’m actually feeling a tiny bit chilly today, but the weather forecasts it shooting back up again in the coming week, so by the time I finish this update I might just be…
Fantasy with Friends: Witches in Fantasy
Fantasy with Friends – hosted by Pages Unbound – poses questions each Monday about fantasy, either as a genre as a whole or individual works. I love a witchy fantasy – witches can be such interesting characters in the right hands, and so different, especially when we look at subgenres. So I’m very excited to…
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The Tea on Elle:
Writer, reader, gamer, geek.
Can usually be found hunched over a laptop, or curled up with a book. Will read anything.
Has been writing since acquiring the ability to hold a pen, entertaining family members with stories written on post-it notes, then entertaining a teacher with tales of worlds full of Pokemon.
Studied Creative Writing at University of Hull. Hopes to one day fulfil the dream of being able to write full time.
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