Books by Gayle Callen
I said, somewhere in a review in the dim and distant past, that I’m not a great fan of Scottish-set romances because the plotlines are generally so formulaic. You know the sort of thing – Girl from Clan X meets Boy from Clan Y and they fall in love even though their respective clans are deadly ...
The Groom Wore Plaid is the sequel to Gayle Callen’s The Wrong Bride, and the story in this book picks up more or less where the first ended, with Maggie McCallum agreeing to wed Owen Duff, the new Earl of Aberfoyle, in order to satisfy a long-standing agreement between their two clans. Because Ma ...
The Wrong Bride, the first in a new series from Gayle Callen, is one of those books that’s hard to grade. It’s well-written, the author allows time for her romance to develop and there’s a nicely sensual undercurrent to many of the interactions between the central couple; but it’s the sort o ...
Having thoroughly enjoyed the previous two books in this trilogy (Return of the Viscount and Surrender to the Earl), I was very much looking to reading this, the final of Ms Callen’s stories about three soldiers who return from army service in India determined to help the relatives of men in their ...
I picked up Surrender to the Earl because of its heroine. Audrey Blake lost her sight as a child due to scarlet fever, and when I started the book I figured she wouldn’t be miraculously getting it back. Hoping this would make for an interesting plotline, I eagerly dove in...and discovered that alt ...
In Gayle Callen's Return of the Viscount, the villain perpetrates a series of potentiality fatal attacks against the heroine, hoping to kill her and make it look like an accident. And frankly, as a reader, there were moments when I hoped the villain would succeed. Our heroine, ...
Normally I don’t like romances that are based on deception. They just sit badly with me. However, Gayle Callen made this plot far more palatable for me in Never Marry a Stranger, which managed to add a level of rationality and plausibility to a farcical set-up. Captain Matthew ...
Math and I were never the best of friends, but, nevertheless, (and probably to amuse myself - something I desperately needed) I found myself thinking in mathematical terms as I read this book. Here goes: The flimsiest of premises + the most pedestrian and unimaginative of executions = no reason I ...
The Viscount in Her Bedroom was my first book by Gayle Callen and, after flipping through the book to get an idea of what it was about, I was hesitant about starting. But after a slow beginning, I was intrigued enough and, though I had issues with the book, it is unique in plot and the hero and her ...
I hate writing C reviews. Truly, I do. But when the book I’m assigned is your classic, screamingly average wallpaper romance, a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do. You’ve got your impoverished young heroine who takes a job as a governess to a spunky (yet adorable) li ...