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Fortune’s Lady is an average Regency offering. It has some interesting moments, but most of them will likely be forgotten as soon as the last page is turned. Lady Althea is stunningly beautiful, and she’s a duke’s daughter. That makes her the catch of the season, and everyone likes to call her “the Incomparable of…
Brenda Joyce’s latest Francesca Cahill installment purports to be a historical mystery, but “historical soap opera” may be just as apt a description. There were so many characters to keep track of in this turn of the century whodunit, all involved in their own little (and not so little) subplots, that I often felt like…
How you react to The Loner will depend on how you approach it. If you begin the book expecting reasonable people acting in a responsible manner, you will be horrified by all the goings-on. But if you look on it as a soap opera populated with cartoon characters, you will have more than just a…
The Shadowing by Joan Overfield is a very gothic experience. While I found the book engrossing and the heroine interesting, the book’s over-the-top melodrama was a little difficult to take. In the fifteenth century, an evil sorcerer cursed the McCairn lairds with the Shadowing. At some point in their lives, every male member of the…
Scandalous Spirits is a romp with a ghostly twist and some amusing moments, but is marred by some odd writing quirks and a sometimes-irrational heroine. Millionaire Marcus Van Buren wants to sell the family mansion in a bad way. It’s fallen into ruin and is rumored to be haunted; just thinking about it gives him…
Kathleen Gilles Seidel is amazing. Why she is not better known and more widely read is a complete mystery. Her books are masterpieces of characterization and storytelling, filled with clever observations and the flavor of real life. Till the Stars Fall is my favorite book by her yet. It showcases all of her considerable talent…
I know as I write this review that it’s not going to find universal agreement, and some of you may even feel that I’ve lost my mind for granting the latest Rachel Gibson release DIK status. Nevertheless, Lola Carlyle Reveals All is exactly the kind of book I like, a somewhat suspenseful contemporary with a…
Overwrought and overwritten. How can I even begin to describe the writing style of The Duchess’ Lover? I could, I suppose mention the fact that every noun has many adjectives – many, many, many adjectives. It’s enough to make Kathleen Woodiwiss envious. Then there are the characters. They are larger than life, and never calm….
While I wouldn’t say I’m in a romance reading slump, I have had less than stellar luck with my review picks of late. Even books I think I will really like end up being ho-hum. Jane Feather’s new book, To Kiss a Spy, is the latest addition to my string of mediocre reads. I chose…
Reunion by Kathryn Fox is an unusual and powerful historical romance. Unfortunately, the question on the cover – Would their future be filled with love..or heartbreak? – isn’t really satisfactorily answered. The question that still bothered me at the end of this book was, “Is love going to be enough to save this marriage?” Adam…
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