Finally we meet the notorious Smythe-Smith girls. The Smythe-Smiths have been a running joke in her books for, what, a decade now? But always in the shadows, always side characters, never even getting first names of their own - till now. It’s not something you get with a lot of romance novels, besides the generic historical world - but JQ’s an author who makes her society feel real and expanded, because of all the interconnections. All the stories I like best are those with real, complex worlds, that seem to extend outside of the immediate story. She’s really built up a ton of her own - she has a cohesive universe, which is something that attracts me very much. JQ does family and friendship so delightfully, and it’s because her heroes and heroines don’t, as in so many novels, exist in isolation. What JQ does better than any other romance author I’ve encountered, excepting perhaps Lisa Kleypas, is the sense of community. Title: Just Like Heaven (Smythe-Smith Quartet, Book #1)
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