The Pink Carnation Series

I have noticed that, thus far, I have done more complaining on this blog than anything else. Therefore, I have decided to write a glowing review about something I like.

Last night, I completed the fourth novel in Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation series. I love her books. They possess a lightheartedness and flirt on the lines of being a romance novel. However, I find them to be intriguingly written and fun.

Her novels take place in the early nineteenth century England and French around the time that Napoleon was in power. Willig found inspiration from Jane Austin and Baroness Orczy who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel. Her plots are split into two stories. The first is filled with espionage, intrigue, murderous villains, and the dilemma of courtship amoung England's upperclass youth. The second follows a Harvard grad student in her search to find out more about the elusive English spy, The Pink Carnation.

I was glad to learn that Willig plans to write many more books in her series. I suggest them to anyone who enjoys romance, suspense, comedy, and historical fiction.

Novels published:
~The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
~The Masque Of the Black Tulip
~The Deception of the Emerald Ring
~The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
~The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

For more information visit: http://www.laurenwillig.com/