Zen Cho

"Effervescent and sparkling like Champagne ... " - DearAuthor.com For writer Jade Yeo, the Roaring Twenties are coming in with more of a purr -- until she pillories London's best-known author in a scathing review. Sebastian Hardie is tall, dark and handsome -- and more intrigued than annoyed. Jade is irresistibly drawn to the prospect of adventure he offers. But if she succumbs to temptation, she risks losing her hard-won freedom -- and her best chance for love. The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo is a 23,000-word historical romance novella.

The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

Inez

It's just not the book for me. It makes me feel like I am standing in a big room, watching people dance and I know no one. They all exchange stories and I am just watching, not exactly having any ideas about what's happening or who's who.

Kwan Ann Tan

A short read, but wonderfully heartwarming.

Jo H

FUNNY AS FUCK!!! We kissed a while—Hardie very gentle and restrained, I trying to work out what I was meant to do with my teeth and tongue and lips. In ordinary kissing one aligns one's lips with the kissee's lips, and presses them together, but in—well—I can't think of a better term—in sex kissing the insides of one's mouth is involved, and it is quite difficult to make it so the respective lips are aligned. One folds one's lips on top of the other's. But caution is required: if anyone's lips stray too far beyond the mouth it gets very damp, and one feels as if one is being eaten by an excessively friendly lion. This quote had me howling! The laughs came as a total surprise as I really wasn't expecting it at all. 

Also It was one of those London townhouses that have long narrow faces on the outside but turn out to have unexpected dimensions on the inside—they go up and out forever. The rooms were large, and the furnishings were beautiful, but almost pointedly worn, just in case you thought they had been bought new. I expect Hardie's great-grandfathers themselves obtained them in a looting on some colonial excursion. There were some very bad examples of Chinese porcelain on the mantelpiece. oh the shade! This one had me sniggering like a teenager.

This is what I call satire, which is a (respectful) send up of romance (perhaps both the literary genre AND the actual reality of it lol) as well as some of the cultural and social mores of the times. And whilst not strictly a romance it is romance adjacent as this epistolary style novella, told entirely in journal entries DOES include a love story and ends in a HEA - (view spoiler)[between two Asian characters (hide spoiler)] but not the one you would expect. This short and quick read seems to be perma free on both Kobo and kindle so I highly recommend if it sounds even vaguely interesting to pick it up and give it a go. It has definitely piqued my interest in the authors other works now, especially her Regency set fantasy series that begins with Sorcerer to the Crown.

The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo

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