Comments on: Dueling Books: To Love a Thief and Voices of the Night http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/08/29/dueling-books-to-love-a-thief-and-voices-of-the-night/ Rethinking romance and other fine fiction Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Review: Beauty and the Spy, Julie Ann Long « Racy Romance Reviews http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/08/29/dueling-books-to-love-a-thief-and-voices-of-the-night/#comment-97 Review: Beauty and the Spy, Julie Ann Long « Racy Romance Reviews Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:56:30 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-97 [...] This is the third of Long’s six books in print, and also the third Long book I have read, following The Secret to Seduction, which everyone lurved (I did like it, but the hero was a poet, and I have an irrational dread fear of bad poetry and no confidence that even someone as supremely talented as Ms. Long can write it. I confess that I read the entire book in a full body cringe, one eye shut.), and To Love a Thief, which I thought was fantastic. [...]

[...] This is the third of Long’s six books in print, and also the third Long book I have read, following The Secret to Seduction, which everyone lurved (I did like it, but the hero was a poet, and I have an irrational dread fear of bad poetry and no confidence that even someone as supremely talented as Ms. Long can write it. I confess that I read the entire book in a full body cringe, one eye shut.), and To Love a Thief, which I thought was fantastic. [...]

]]> By: Jessica http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/08/29/dueling-books-to-love-a-thief-and-voices-of-the-night/#comment-96 Jessica Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:49:14 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-96 I agree completely about the setting in the Joyce. I had read Long's <em>The Secret to Seduction</em>, thanks to your review, Janine, and enjoyed it, but I loved <em>To Love a Thief</em>. <em>The Perils of Pleasure</em> is in my TBR pile. I haven't read another Joyce -- there are so many other authors I want to try -- but I hope to read more of her Victoriana series one day. I agree completely about the setting in the Joyce.

I had read Long’s The Secret to Seduction, thanks to your review, Janine, and enjoyed it, but I loved To Love a Thief. The Perils of Pleasure is in my TBR pile.

I haven’t read another Joyce — there are so many other authors I want to try — but I hope to read more of her Victoriana series one day.

]]> By: Janine http://www.readreactreview.com/2008/08/29/dueling-books-to-love-a-thief-and-voices-of-the-night/#comment-95 Janine Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:34:42 +0000 http://racyromancereviews.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-95 I haven't read <i>To Love a Thief yet</i>, but I have it TBR and am looking for it, since I've enjoyed some of Long's other books very much. <i>Voices of the Night</i> was a keeper for me and my favorite of Joyce's books so far. One of the things I appreciated most about that book was that Joyce wasn't afraid to show how squalid and hard life was for the poor in Victorian England. Romances often gloss over that; I really appreciated that this one didn't. I haven’t read To Love a Thief yet, but I have it TBR and am looking for it, since I’ve enjoyed some of Long’s other books very much. Voices of the Night was a keeper for me and my favorite of Joyce’s books so far. One of the things I appreciated most about that book was that Joyce wasn’t afraid to show how squalid and hard life was for the poor in Victorian England. Romances often gloss over that; I really appreciated that this one didn’t.

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