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friends2lovers's review
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
fast-paced
5.0
I don’t even know what to say…this was perfectly lovely and so heartwarming. I want to read it again already! I teared up at the end! So good. So, so good.
This story is an erotic romance, but don't expect anything really graphic or raunchy. The overall mood and style is sensual and emotional. The sex is fairly explicit, but the descriptions are sort of glossed over, too, if that makes sense. I think a slower pace and lingering a bit longer in the intimate scenes would have built anticipation and made the story feel a lot hotter. I thought it was perfect and wouldn’t change it, but, just wanted to warn readers who may be expecting something much more graphic/explicit. To be fair, the book I read before this was Katee Robert's Gifting Me to His Best Friend (an MMF erotic contemporary holiday romance). So, Widow in Emerald may have just felt tamer by comparison.
Author: Scarlett Peckham
Series: The Secrets of Charlotte Street (Widow in Emerald is connected to this series but can be read as a standalone)
Read Date: December 23, 2021
Genre: erotic historical romance
Setting: London, Christmas, Georgian era, in the 1750’s. (There is no year mentioned in the story but The Lord I Left (The Secrets of Charlotte Street #3) is set in 1758 so I’m assuming it’s set in the same time period.)
Hero: Unnamed perfect man
Heroine: Anne
Tropes: widowed heroine, stranger sex, Christmas
Format: Kindle ebook (own)—it can be downloaded for free by signing up for the author’s email newsletter on her website
Length: Short Story—page count not listed but based on how long it took me to read, I’m assuming around 50 pages.
Steam Level: 🔥🔥 (2 out of 5) - High Steam
Sexual Content: I didn’t really count full sex scenes in this but I will estimate there were at least two, which is high steam for a short story. There were also a few partial scenes (e.g., brief masturbation, interrupted before O). Also of note - heroine visits a brothel, bondage.
This story is an erotic romance, but don't expect anything really graphic or raunchy. The overall mood and style is sensual and emotional. The sex is fairly explicit, but the descriptions are sort of glossed over, too, if that makes sense. I think a slower pace and lingering a bit longer in the intimate scenes would have built anticipation and made the story feel a lot hotter. I thought it was perfect and wouldn’t change it, but, just wanted to warn readers who may be expecting something much more graphic/explicit. To be fair, the book I read before this was Katee Robert's Gifting Me to His Best Friend (an MMF erotic contemporary holiday romance). So, Widow in Emerald may have just felt tamer by comparison.
Author: Scarlett Peckham
Series: The Secrets of Charlotte Street (Widow in Emerald is connected to this series but can be read as a standalone)
Read Date: December 23, 2021
Genre: erotic historical romance
Setting: London, Christmas, Georgian era, in the 1750’s. (There is no year mentioned in the story but The Lord I Left (The Secrets of Charlotte Street #3) is set in 1758 so I’m assuming it’s set in the same time period.)
Hero: Unnamed perfect man
Heroine: Anne
Tropes: widowed heroine, stranger sex, Christmas
Format: Kindle ebook (own)—it can be downloaded for free by signing up for the author’s email newsletter on her website
Length: Short Story—page count not listed but based on how long it took me to read, I’m assuming around 50 pages.
Steam Level: 🔥🔥 (2 out of 5) - High Steam
Sexual Content: I didn’t really count full sex scenes in this but I will estimate there were at least two, which is high steam for a short story. There were also a few partial scenes (e.g., brief masturbation, interrupted before O). Also of note - heroine visits a brothel, bondage.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Grief
Moderate: Death
hratzer3's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
bookishnerdyandcurious's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
When Scarlett Peckham released a novella revisiting Charlotte Street, I snapped it up. I found the Charlotte Street books last year after listening to a podcast and I was hooked, so a revisit to Mistress Brearly's establishment? Yes, please.
Our heroine is a widow who is starting to realize that she misses intimacy, but isn't sure that she wants to make that next step, until she visits the dressmaker, who seems to know just what she needs/wants and provides her with an introduction to Charlotte Street. There she learns more about herself and her desires than she ever knew and maybe she can finally talk to the handsome stranger she and her dog see daily... or does she know him well already? And does he know her?
Our heroine is a widow who is starting to realize that she misses intimacy, but isn't sure that she wants to make that next step, until she visits the dressmaker, who seems to know just what she needs/wants and provides her with an introduction to Charlotte Street. There she learns more about herself and her desires than she ever knew and maybe she can finally talk to the handsome stranger she and her dog see daily... or does she know him well already? And does he know her?
racheldida's review
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
brgntteva's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
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