I have read one regency in my entire 29 years. The Obedient Bride by Mary Balogh. I liked it. I think I blogged about it but I am too lazy to look and that isn’t what this post is about anyway.

The great, grand and wonderful Keishon has a TBR Challenge going on and May was Regency. Now since I suck, I missed it. But it did get me thinking about reading them and I have picked up a few now.

I keep hearing how Mary Balogh trads are better than her historicals, so I was reading up on them here and here and good god they sound depressing.

I mean is it just me? I have picked up The Incurable Matchmaker (Signet Regency Romance) and was looking to see what else might be nifty to try. Idea’s? Her website says:

And I am constantly being asked too about republication of my older books. Finally there is news on this front! The Secret Pearl will be on sale again in an all-new edition (but with no changes to the text!) at the end of November, 2005. The WEB trilogy (The Gilded Web, Web of Love, Devil’s Web) has also been acquired, though these books have not yet been scheduled. And my novella “A Handful of Gold” will reappear in the Harlequin anthology Christmas Keepsakes this year with all-new stories by Julia Justiss and Nicola Cornick. I’ll post covers for these books with more details about them on Home Page as soon as I have them.


So I know I will be able to get those at some point. Anyway – rec away.

oh other regency’s I have picked up:
Scandal’s Reward (A Zebra Regency Romance) and Rogue’s Reward (Zebra Regency Romance)by Jean R Ewing
An Unforgettable Rogue (Zebra Ballad Romance) by Annette Blair
The Purloined Papers (Signet Regency Romance) by Allison Lane
and the above mentioned The Incurable Matchmaker by Mary Balogh

Which should I read first?