Reading Historical Romances from Each Decade | Reading Vlog

[@mayragonzalez643]

I absolutely adore The Cynsters!! Stephanie Laurens writing take true concentration! It’s worth it! She’s a beautiful writer!

[@JessenReadsRomance]

I LOVE the way that Devil's Bride begins! I remember so clearly the first time I read it and was like "Whoa, this is exciting!" and I never looked back.

[@LindsNW05]

I love how you can hear your dogs snoring in the background in the last clip, they're so adorable.

[@TheBookRefuge]

Devil's Bride was so intense. I really loved this couple so much. The mystery was just enough, and I loved how strong the heroine was. It was written so romantically. It did drag a bit in the middle though. I think because I listened to it, and got through it much faster.. that helped. Also, what made it a 6 star for me was the scene after Chillingsworth. The misunderstanding that could have went completely off track, but instead he believed her. I really just haven't seen that very often. Also, I am on book 6 in the series and all the heroes are very obsessed with their heroines.

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

So true! I loved how the misunderstanding didn’t actually come to be this big thing and really proved how strong their romance is!

[@nazifaradi6741]

Ohh I loved Devil's Bride. Did you read the rest of the Cynsters series?

[@isbaileyreading]

I love that you read both new and old historical romances! I know you say your historical romance videos don’t do well but I look forward to them soooo much!

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Agree

[@lisad4748]

This is a creative idea! Can you do this with other sub-genres of romance, like contemporaries?! I would love to see contemporary romance from other decades.

[@ByMadisonFox]

instantly purchased "while the duke was sleeping" - SO EXCITED also yaaaay the end is near for your masters! congrats

[@justinkhchen]

So fun! Definitely a round 2 (and 3) is needed! I've read one Eloisa James so far (The Taming of the Duke) and it's similar to your experience-you don't really know who the couple is until almost halfway through the book.

[@ireneafonso4171]

Oh I would love to hear your take on Georgette heyer's books and the OG romance queen, Barbara Cartland.

[@Liz0657]

I never read her books but I heard their very good.

[@Sofia_Monteiro]

As. 48 yo woman, having read romance novels for over 35 years I can tell you they are quite weak. The troop is always about a love so very pure (!?), no flesh character development, hardly ever a second plot, and no supporting people.

[@ireneafonso4171]

@@Sofia_Monteiro I'm 45 and they were the first ones I read, I have a soft spot for Barbara Cartland. As for Georgette Heyer I find her books very entertaining still. I just don't read many historicals at the moment because I'm tired of the genre. But because she stopped in the eighties, I was curious on her opinion on even older books. The genre has changed so much! One of my other soft spots is for Victoria Holt, but her books are not for everyone, certainly not for this generation of romance readers.

[@margueritemitchell1829]

@@ireneafonso4171 she died 😂😔

[@margueritemitchell1829]

Love Georgette Heyer have reread most at least twice some favourite 3 to 4 x. There are 2 biographies which are really interesting... Insight into her process and work ethic.

[@crystalsbookishlife]

So happy you're fully vaccinated! 🎉😍

[@monadebata5223]

Once and Always was the first historical romance I read

[@marijabozic2290]

Such great look at how romance books have changed over the years. Before they were more historically accurate, poor women endured so much, today they are more adapted to our time. Great vlog .

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

The old ones were the best because were reality.

[@JessenReadsRomance]

While the Duke Was Sleeping has been on my TBR for a while!

[@onthefritz820]

Jess, I love this video idea!! Keep doing these creative videos you're excited about!

[@leanneseverson4375]

Devil's Bride is the start of like a 20 book epic series!

[@aesinam]

The Cynsters. Read them ages ago and glad I did

[@crystalsbookishlife]

I'm with you on the hero that assaults the heroine. No sir. Get out.

[@catiejanb2587]

All of Stephanie Laurens books take concentration. Even those that were released much more recently. As an older reader I can definitely recommend the Julie Garwood historical romances.

[@NovelLife]

I love this video!! It’s so cool to see the differences between the books.

[@daijahsbookworld]

I loved this idea so much! The different decades part is so interesting

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

Thank you ❤️❤️

[@TheBookRefuge]

I can't wait for this. Yay!!

[@mayragonzalez643]

But have you read Ransom - Julie Garwood ?? It’s seriously so good! 🙃

[@katyareads221]

My favorite HR of all time is "Ransom"...and sequel to "The secret".....not a huge fan of the third in the series "Shadow Music" as it did not include characters from previous books and right about where the author started her contemporary romances. Plus I don't get the name....but LOVED Ransom..

[@abcarlson80]

@@katyareads221 based on the writing style of Shadow Music, I feel like Garwood's name is used, but a very green writer took this on or it's just a really early draft of Garwood's that they rushed to publication. Likely the former, though, as I am a fan of several romance authors of that same time period who just sold out their name and a tragic writer takes over.

[@luzrodriguez1214]

I love the Ransom

[@SeasonallyBookedUp]

I’ve loved the Rogue Files books that I’ve read and I’m very excited to pick up While the Duke was Sleeping

[@beautyb4876]

i love while you were sleeping! thought i was the only one lol also watch every Christmas. When you said every decade I thought you meant a book from every time period lol but I'm still half asleep so...

[@harisa-esquiredtoread7367]

This was sooo fun! great idea

[@BooksWaffles]

Okay, but this idea is so genius! And as usual, your vlog always comes right on time to accompany my breakfast💛

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

Thank you ❤️

[@ilovebooks718-noelia8]

I never liked historical romance but since watching you I have read some and I really enjoy them.. Thanks

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Welcome to the sisterhood

[@rosac464]

Great choice of authors. My favorites.

[@TheGoofy1932]

Julie Garwood and Galen Foley are both excellent romance authors. Love their stuff. The Duke is so good. 😍 Eloisa James is a favorite of mine for historical romance. She's right up there with Lisa Kleypas for me. I think that's why I prefer the "old school " historical romance authors so much. The story's just have a lot more to it. They're really developed. Don't get me wrong, while I'm reading a Tessa Dare or the like it's often enjoyable, but on the whole they aren't memorable. While a good James, Kleypas, Foley, etc sticks with you.

[@djhoannaglorianeri-estalil9031]

My favorite authors are Stephanie Laurens and Julie Garwood.

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

Ooo this is a fun concept!

[@NothingBetterThanaBook]

I think I have that exact same DC sweatshirt from my 8th grade trip! Lol!! I went in 2006. I was obsessed with the lime green. So funny!

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

😂 we were so cool in 8th grade!!

[@precguan]

Really enjoy your vlogs!

[@blossom_n_gin]

I LOVED this video!!!! One of my favs ❤❣

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

Yay! Glad you enjoyed it ☺️

[@alliek9149]

OMG I wear my Washington DC sweatshirt too! But I got mine in like 2013. It’s raggedy but so comfortable! I would go back to DC just to get another sweatshirt. Also, might I suggest The Windflower by Laura London? It’s a little dense but I’m obsessed with the characters!

[@TheBookRefuge]

I have the Lion's Lady saved in my Scrib'd.. So I hope you have good thoughts about it.

[@jessicagolden1631]

I’m so excited for this video!!

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

❤️

[@aesinam]

Wow I just read While the Duke was sleeping a few days ago. I quite liked it. Definitely based on While You were Sleeping

[@onthefritz820]

Omg I need that I Want a Love That's Out of This World sweater!!

[@katyareads221]

It was me.....my suggestion....so glad you decided to do this...yeay!!!! Great picks. "Much ado about you" looks good. I missed this one. And "While the Duke was sleeping" looks good too. I'll have to pick it up. I love Gaelyn Foley!!!! That book you picked up is a Bridgestone style series. One of my all time favorite authors-McNaught...Once and Always, I loved this......what a difference decade by decade..... You should try one from the 1970s...try Jan Cox Speas.....actually from th 1950s but fashioned up in the 70s....."My Lord Monleigh" or "My Enemy my Love"

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

Thank you so much for the idea ☺️☺️

[@TheBookRefuge]

I want to reread some old Eloisa James. I've read everything but her very first trilogy, its just been so long...

[@onthefritz820]

oh yay I'm glad you loved While the Duke Was Sleeping! I love that movie and a historical version of it is such a fun idea. I've seen some mixed things on it, but I think some people are meh on Sophie Jordan anyways. I've loved the few I've read from her. Want to start this one, but battling that inner struggle to finish other series I've started and to start new ones!

[@alliek9149]

I can’t find anything on Google about the movie! Where did you find it?

[@onthefritz820]

@@alliek9149 I meant the movie While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock 😊

[@elisabethpeart4252]

I loved while the duke was sleeping.

[@crystalsbookishlife]

100% agree about Devil in Her Bed...

[@TheGoofy1932]

I feel like the 90's and early 2000's were the peak for historical romances. I felt like the character and plot development were better then. I still remember plot and characters from books like The Bride (Garwood) and The Duke (Foley). Usually the sex scenes were more numerous and better, imo. (I like a heaving bosom and turgid member 😂) Yes, Stephanie Laurens' books are typically more involved. Her Cynsters series is very good, but yes you do have to pay attention to them as most have subplots afoot too, which, I personally like. Also, many steamy scenes, which again, I'm a fan of. That's honestly my biggest critique with author's like Tessa Dare, Lynsay Sands and Sophie Jordan. While they're fun when I'm reading them they can never crack better than a 4 star review from me because they aren't very memorable. (I've accidentally partially re-read Dare and Jordan both because I didn't remember the book) I am a big re-reader, and if I won't re-read a book then it doesn't get a 5 star review from me. (accidental re-read because your book wasn't memorable enough doesn't count) 😂

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

The same with me 😮

[@Sofia_Monteiro]

The devil in her bed - Kerrigan Byrne The hellion - cristi caldwell While the duke was sleeping - sophie Jordan Much ado about you - Eloisa James Devil's bride - Stephanie Laurens The lion's lady - Julie Garwood Once and always -Judith McNaught

[@kimbutler6912]

Once And Always is my all time number one favorite

[@Sofia_Monteiro]

@@kimbutler6912 my favorite will always be "until you"

[@kimbutler6912]

That’s funny you said that , I know I read it years ago but don’t remember and I keep going back and forth whether to read it but the book reviews are pretty bad and said there’s hardly any sex scenes just a lot of frustrating amnesia , not that I always believe reviews , I’m so happy you mentioned it , I’m going to read it tonight on your recommendation I’m desperate for something great , I adore Judith McNaught , no one can compare to her historical romance books although I never got into her modern books . The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne is the only book I’ve read in years that Ive been in love with obsessed with like my old favorites McNaught’s books

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

I wants to read Kerrigan Byrne but I started one book and stopped and I forget her book. No good sign

[@mallorycheek4439]

I JUST finished The Duke by Gaelen Foley and loved it!!!

[@katyareads221]

This is a great series.... Loved "Lord of Ice"......which deals with PTSD issues of a veteran of a war.

[@BobbiTaylor624]

Just curious not really historical related, but have you read Sandra Brown?

[@refrescorojoreads8649]

Cynster #5 was my first ever Historical

[@moonbook12]

That is such cool idea

[@margueritemitchell1829]

I'm sure I read "Lyon's Lady" ... don't remember much except for the title....I also read at least 1 in the much ado I kinda remember the plot line you mentioned. Remember it being funny. The misunderstanding of the ages of the ' brides'

[@abcarlson80]

I'd like to see you do the same "through the decades" concept with a trope or common romance time period: Highlander romances, enemies to lovers, Regency, et al. I'm about 75% through Devil's Bride, and it's just okay. After Fated Mates had me all hyped for it, I was expecting better. Lovely writing style, definitely sets the stage, but it's boring and I don't see any chemistry: he wants her while she's like "sure, I guess." eh . . . I need to go back and read Once & Always as this is one of my favorite historicals that I've read at least a dozen times, but it has been over a decade since my last read-through. I'm guessing things that crossed the line for me then are unforgivable now, but I'll give it another shot anyway. I was blooded on McNaught, Garwood, & Brown, so I'm used to questionable plot points.

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

Ooh great idea!

[@andreoue]

Jason (Ιάσων) is a Greek male name. Actually, Greek male and female names, and variations of them, are found quite a lot in HRs, especially in those placed in the 17th and 18th century. Most probably, because of the influence of classical ideas - education and liberal arts.

[@maryjordan7649]

I have never been disappointed by books written by Grace Burrows. Seek her out!

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Do you can recommend one.

[@lucybuckle1646]

A lot of people used to marry they cousins to keep the wealth within the family 😊

[@katherinedray8905]

It’s interesting what you said about the writing style in Once and Always, because this is precisely why I hated Much Ado About You (I read the ebook). In one paragraph we were in one person’s head and then the next paragraph we’re in someone else’s head and it was just too chaotic for me 🙈

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

Hmmm maybe I didn’t notice it as much because I listened to the audiobook of Much Ado About You and read Once and Always physically? I was confused about who we were supposed to follow in the beginning of Much Ado About You, but it didn’t seem to bother me as much as it did in Once and Always!

[@katherinedray8905]

@@PeaceLoveBooksxo yeah, that makes sense, maybe I wouldn’t have minded so much if I had listened to the audio. As it is, I totally gave up on Eloisa James because this type of writing is just not my cup of tea 😞

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

I read one and always ny Judith McNaught surprise I read before and unfortunately I do not remember the story. Well I read two time the second time I stopped but I had has searching for Judith Ms. books and I do not realized that I read one.

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Sophie Jordan is a good writer her first books were the last books are no so great this while the duck sleeps bring me back. Before I used to buy all books without hesitation now I have to read few pages first.

[@evelynantl897]

Happy to hear you are fully vaccinated. 😊

[@precguan]

Love your vlogs!

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

I read much ado about you and is a keeper.

[@slreads7179]

loved this!!!

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

That book I had read ❤and I commend.

[@precguan]

More of this please 🙏🏾

[@Priyanshi-td6sm]

"The devil in her bed" was such a major disappointment mostly after the first book of this series, which was a 5 stars read.Thanks I think I am gonna read " Devil's Bride ".😁😁

[@crystalsbookishlife]

Darcy click clacking in with her bone 😆❤

[@crystalsbookishlife]

"You're basically ruined because we spent the night together in a cottage with this dead body" 😂☠☠

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

I hear about Judith McNaught that I was searching for her books. Few weeks ago my sister gave a book a once and always and really is was not that I expecting. Now is in my shelf but I will read another. I read a new version of Whitney my love and was so different from opinions. Where is the abuse?

[@precguan]

I feel like with each new book, its a game to figure out who the hero and heroine is... 😂

[@JessenReadsRomance]

Judith McNaught seems to love to inject misunderstandings that lead to non-consensual scenes between the hero and heroine. I went easier on the rating with 3 stars because Whitney, My Love is WAYYYY worse in my opinion. It's so much non-con all over the place and the characters are never enjoyable. I actually liked Victoria and Jason's relationship in the beginning but it all goes downhill on the wedding night and never recovers!

[@PeaceLoveBooksxo]

I really want to read Whitney, My Love, but I have a feeling I’m going to hate it 😂

[@JessenReadsRomance]

@@PeaceLoveBooksxo I’d be interested to see what you think of Whitney and Clayton! It didn’t take me long to transition into hate-reading though 🙈

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

I read a new version Whitney my love and I was so disappointed but I read in a review that Whitney was humiliate and really I can believe that was the same. I have to read the original because the new I recycle

[@precguan]

I feel like in the beginning it’s a hame to figure out who the hero and heroine is... 😂

[@oliviatiwaladeadedokun2929]

No Lisa Klyepas? What do you read?

[@liasonpureluv]

Judith McNaught has this weird thing about giving her historical hero or heroine modern names. Or at least this is the book of hers with that. The heroine in A Kingdom of Dreams is named Jennifer. In 1400s Scotland?? I found that really weird and so distracting. 😂 ETA: And I just checked and realized I actually own a copy of Once and Always. Oh dear. 😳 I'm not touching it now!

[@woman5918]

Try Crimes of the Brothers by D L Carter.

[@beautyb4876]

and the 90's were the best lol

[@pardonthisbookaddict]

Lyon’s Lady is good. I won’t be reading Once and Always.

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

I am not a fan ms Laurents book I will that book may I can buy they eBay.

[@zubaerchaudhari8267]

Hi

[@simgingergirl]

There's a big difference between third person omniscient and head-hopping. You're describing head-hopping, which isn't style. It's a mistake.

[@suevanderriet1672]

Hi! Please would you mind keeping your books still and not waving them about? What about standing them somewhere where we can look at them, see the title and the author nicely. I get dizzy watching the books fly around in your waving hands.

[@PinkPetraPhotography]

Everybody loves Judith McNaught... but I hated her style. In A Kingdom of dreams the hero hit the heroine... I just don't get it why people love her. Her books are so full of stupidity :D

[@lizardas]

Just a suggestion, please talk a little slower. It's hard to understand you.

[@precguan]

More of this please 🙏🏾