Books by Emily Hendrickson
Poor Emma Cheney! She is much too sweet and unassuming a girl to be saddled with such dreadful writing. Even worse, her hero, Peter, played her like a fiddle. All she wanted was to see a mummy and do a little drawing and she ends up exhausted, confused and used. The pity I felt for Emma is the only ...
This past summer has brought a favorite aphorism of mine to mind: "Just because you can get it on, doesn't mean it fits." Another dictum on that theme might be: "Just because you can string some sentences together doesn't make you a writer." Lord Nick's Folly is proof of that. It is a terrible book, ...
This is the somnolent story of a lost ivory pin and the unfunny, inept attempts to recover it. Some 200 pages after the mystery of the pin is introduced, you'll be asking yourself why you should care: the plot meanders along the same meaningless path as the characters' unexciting courtship. ...
I have a special fondness for Regency Romances. They are the first romances I read, and as they introduced me to the wider world of romance novels, I am always looking for a good one. Unfortunately, The Rake's Revenge by Emily Hendrickson does not qualify. Regina Hawthorne is a young woman o ...
I love history (especially social history) and I like my historical and Regency romances to be accurate. If a book uses too-modern phrases or if a character's title is given wrong, I have been known to brood as I read the book. But given the choice between a book that is historically accurate but ...
Most books that earn an F really earn it, usually because the characters do something to provoke a violent, unpleasant response. The Dangerous Baron Leigh isn't like that, and indeed I am sorry to be giving it such a poor grade, because I'm sure if another author had written this book with the same ...
In the opening scene of Miss Haycroft's Suitors, Justin Fairfax, Earl of Rocheford enters an empty church. Upon spying Anne Haycroft asleep in a pew, he impulsively kisses her on the cheek. Then, to keep her from crying out, he kisses her on the mouth. Apologizing for his impulse, he introduces him ...
You've got to feel for Persys Timothy. For years she's served as companion to her spectacularly beautiful cousin, Katherine. But now Katherine's married (to the man Persys fancies herself in love with), and her aunt informs her - at the wedding breakfast! - that she must find another place to live ...
If not for the review I had to write for this book, I would have forgotten it by the end of next week. There is nothing really wrong with Miss Timothy Perseveres, but for some reason it wouldn't stick in my mind. There are few highs and lows, nothing to attract or repel. With so little electricity, ...
The Unexpected Wife has some good points, but they can't outweigh the fact that this is an utterly insubstantial read. Yes - it's light, cheerful, and shows Austen's influence in its description of the English country gentry. If I'd never read a Regency Romance before, it would have fared far better ...