European Historical Romance
An AAR Top 100 Romance
review originally published on May 15, 1997
Lord of Scoundrels held the #1 spot in our Top 100 polls in 2013, 2010, 2007, 2004, and 2000. It was #7 in our first poll, in 1998. We're about to do a new one...
One of the greatest thrills about reading, for me, is to ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
review originally published on February 28, 2006
Let me begin by stating that Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, wins the award in my book for most anticipated future hero. As I finished reading It Happened One Autumn, I was stunned to discover that extreme bad boy Sebastian woul ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
review originally published on April 18, 2009
When you’re reading a book that is a step or two – or six or seven – above the norm, you know it almost immediately. Such is the case with The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie.
The characters here are so complex and so rea ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
review originally published on April 07, 1999
If you want to read a book that comes as close to perfection as any historical romance, then pick up Flowers from the Storm. The story, the language, the emotional intensity: this book has everything. It's Laura Kinsale at the ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on May 22, 2004
To put my assessment of this book in perspective, I haven't loved every book ever written by Mary Balogh and I've found the Slightly series to be more uneven than it seems many readers did. With that said, though, I most assuredly do l ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on September 30, 1998
He was born in a drainpipe, abandoned by his mother and raised by prostitutes until he was old enough to work as a climbing boy cleaning chimneys. He gave himself a name as he was born without one. He does not know how old he is ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on December 8, 2000
If an author has done her job, I will be swept away into another world and introduced to people I would like to know in real life, and when I leave this fictional world I will have been moved in some way. With The Viscount Who Loved M ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on June 7, 2002
While reading Romancing Mister Bridgerton was great fun, reviewing it is no picnic. Especially since readers at AAR expect a nicely detailed first-half of the book plot summary with every review.
Well, in this case, I just can't do it ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on January 11, 2008
I almost passed on reviewing The Spymaster's Lady. The cheesy cover (open ruffle-shirted hunk - yawn) and even cheesier title (oh, no - not another spymaster!) led me to believe that it would be yet another boring, cookie-cutter, Rege ...
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on February 18, 2011
Genevieve Eversea, of Pennyroyal Green, has been in love with Lord Harry Osborne for three years. Harry is all that Genevieve wants in a man — he’s funny, handsome, shares her knowledge and love of Italian art, and makes her smil ...