All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny is the fourth historical romance i’ve read in as many days and it’s by far the best one i’ve read this week.

All the Painted Stars follows Lily and Jo as they battle love and marriage in 14th century Oxfordshire. Jo is due to be married off the someone at the upcoming tournament and Lily just isn’t having it so in typical historical fashion Lily disguises herself as a man and infiltrates the tournament in order to win Jo’s hand and save her from marriage. Hijinks ensue and Lily and Jo end up running away and finding safety, and love, in a brewery.

While the story is slow at parts, and sort of exists in bit of a peak and trough sort of way, i really enjoyed this book. The characters are fantastic and I loved the whole main ensemble and how they interacted. I also appreciated the dual POV so that we could see how both Lily and Jo were dealing with falling in love.

I did feel like I was missing out slightly by not having read the authors other book in this series and i felt like i was missing certain aspects of the story but it’s still easy to understand without having read the other book.

I think this is a great historical romance which really captures the yearning of sapphic love and being in love with your best friend.

So despite the fact that this can be slow in areas it really is a great romance and I would 100% recommend this if you enjoy a good historical romance.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book!

Thank you to NetGalley and to HQ for allowing to read an arc of this book for honest and fair review

The characters were amazing and the plot was really enjoyable. There was a lot of chemistry between the heroines from the start. What I also liked was the author got right to the story from the start I personal can not stand long drawn out chapters that are only there to pad the book out . So well done to the author.

There was plenty of action and danger and just as many sweet moments, I loved the plot twists,towards the end (no spoilers sorry, you will have to read the book). I must admit to reading the book in one evening because I needed to know what to the heroines.

I highly recommend this book.

DNF at 10%, this writing style was just really not for me, I struggled to get into it which is a shame as the premise was promising

Thank you to NetGalley and to HQ for approving my request to read an arc of this book

I was lucky enough to read an arc of One Night In Hartswood, but I enjoyed this one even more! The characters were so good and the plot was really enjoyable. There was a lot of chemistry and I was really rooting for our heroines. There was plently of action and danger and just as many sweet moments, so I found it was well balanced. I’d really recommend this book.