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You never know what you are going to get when you pick up a new author, especially with a European Historical; at times I have wondered if the entire sub-genre isn’t just a played-out mine. Happily, The Veil of Night, Lydia Joyce’s debut, is promising. Thoughtful writing, insightful characters, and a fluid style make for…
This review has been a bit of a stumper for me. The Finest Creation is being sold as an adult fantasy novel but it felt more like something aimed at a young adult audience. The exposition and the protagonists are definitely geared that way. And yet it’s appearing in the adult section (I’ve seen it…
I enjoyed Julie Anne Long’s debut novel The Runaway Duke, though I felt it sagged a bit in the last third. I was looking forward to reading her second novel, and while I felt it also had some problems toward the end, I liked To Love a Thief, a Regency-era Pygmalion story, even more. Gideon…
If you are reader of romance, chances are you have read a book like Ashes of Dreams before. It’s not all that original, but it is certainly entertaining. There’s something quite pleasant in reading a well loved story. Amanda Jeffrey and her husband Shane dreamed of starting a horse farm in Kentucky. They had a…
Dishing It Out is part of the doomed Flipside line. I’m not a big reader of series romance, but if more Flipsides were like this one, I doubt Harlequin would be pulling its plug. The cover is silly, but this is a nice little story. Marie Simmons is finally turning a financial and professional corner….
Lessons In Seduction is the first in a trilogy about three sisters who were abandoned as children, but rescued and raised by the kind Lady Greentree. I enjoyed the story, but didn’t find the characters particularly likable. Vivianna Greentree is a passionate reformer. She has never forgotten her experience as a lost and homeless child,…
Picking Up the Pieces is an interracial romance – heavy on the interracial, light on the actual romance. It’s first and foremost an issue book, and that worked for me on some levels because I found the issue interesting. The writing style and characters don’t quite hold up to any close scrutiny, however. Althea Almott…
It’s been a long time since I have read such a light and inconsequential traditional Regency like The Winter Duke. The trouble is, Bergin’s story is not a comedy. It lacks an interesting story, and the characters were phantoms. I could not muster any positive feelings toward the book at all. Lydia Grenville is a…
This is a book that didn’t start out very well, but got better and better as it went along. I found the opening chapters slow, and the heroine isn’t a type of character that I care for. But as I say, the book just kept getting better. I’m quite happy that Heath is still writing…
Shadows on the Lake is the latest Eclipse Gothic romance from Leona Karr, who wrote the first book in the promotion last year. That book wasn’t very good, and I hoped this one would turn out to be better. It might be ever-so-slightly more readable, but it’s still not a good book, not at all….
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