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Like many readers, I very much enjoyed Almost A Gentleman, Pam Rosenthal’s debut romance novel. If it wasn’t quite a DIK for me, it was both romantic and erotic and definitely left me looking forward to the author’s future books. Unhappily, the The Bookseller’s Daughter is such a dramatic decline from that promising first effort…
Reading Obsession I remembered why I gave up watching soap operas; they’re too frustrating. Speaking of frustration, I don’t know how anyone who read its prequel, Devotion, with its mother of all cliff hanger endings, handled it without giving up on Sutcliffe altogether. Unfortunately I’m not sure this is the book you all were waiting…
While the rakish earl and the proper-but-not-boring lady are not new characters of the Regency, Nicola Cornick draws them well in this delightful story. The characters are certainly familiar, but they and their story are far from being dull or ordinary. Amy Bainbridge, the daughter of a gambler, is “on the shelf” and living in…
Remember the Magic is an acceptable read. There’s nothing all that wrong with it, but nothing that stands out either. In the sixteenth century, Sydney Wyrrd left Scotland and the chieftain she loved in order to spare him the trouble of being associated with a witch. She lived the next five centuries alone, until the…
Let me start off by saying that there are a lot of people who should avoid this book. If the thought of “wallpaper” history makes you shudder, if the repeated use of a word like “uptight” in a 19th century-set novel induces a cringe, and if you hold fast and firm to all the accepted…
Elaine Coffman’s first book in the Graham Clan series, The Highlander, is a very adventurous read, and I can’t wait to meet the rest of the family. Sophie d’Alembert is French royalty on the run. The granddaughter of the Louis XIV, she’s been betrothed to the Duke of Rockingham, a loathesome creature. And so she…
The Black Violin was originally published in French three years ago. For reasons that completely escape me, someone decided it would be a great idea to translate it into English and sell it here as a little tiny hardcover book for $16.00. I guess it’s possible that in the original French this is a lyrical…
After a somewhat rough start, the Family Secrets series is shaping up to be surprisingly decent. It doesn’t have the uniformity and solid storyline progression from one book to another that the best of these series, or ones written by a single author, do. But there have been a number of good reads that work…
If you typically enjoy romance novels featuring perfect people, Catherine Anderson’s upcoming Blue Skies is not for you. Carly Adams lived her whole life with a rare eye disease that left her blind until a recent operation gave her sight. She stands on threshold of a new life and, after having taught special education, decides…
Judith French calls her latest novel “the book of her heart,” a sentiment that shows through in every page. While Dorchester is marketing this tale as historical romance, The Conqueror is more historical fiction than a traditional historical romance. The strong romantic element – French brings Alexander the Great and his beloved Roxane to wonderful…
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