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Spherical Harmonic is Catherine Asaro’s latest offering in the Skolian Saga. To put it in perspective, this book is the direct sequel to The Radiant Seas, itself the direct sequel to Primary Inversion. While it overlaps over books in the saga, it is a full story in its own right. While the two books mentioned…
I am generally not fond of opening a romance novel to two characters meeting and having sex without knowing the other’s name. But after that inauspicious beginning, this book settled down and became at times, a nice, light and very sexy read. I ended up liking the characters very much and would have liked the…
Sacrament as a book fits right into an unfortunate personal trend I’ve been experiencing which is: I like an author’s earlier work very much, so I request to review the current book and find unhappily, the current book doesn’t thrill me nearly as much as the others have. This has happened with several authors I…
There’s something kind of creepy to me about a man who falls in love with a woman because he believes she’s helpless and in need of rescue. And, since this plot would likely induce the gag factor in most modern day readers, it’s fortunate that the heroine finds something kind of creepy about it, too….
What would you do if you had loved someone for years, someone whom you could never acknowledge. Then one day that person was no longer forbidden to you? That’s the question that the main characters in this book have to answer. Forbidden desires, secrets and family ties are the heart of this story. Rachel Tanner…
Justine Wittich’s Chloe and the Spy is an entertaining tale of a young woman’s yearning for a more exciting life and what happens when she finds it. Lady Chloe Lockwood is set to enjoy a very small taste of Society, but she is more intrigued by her aunt Heloise’s groom, Drury, than the gentlemen of…
Runaway Bay is a fun romance. The characters are interesting and amusing, and the vacation resort plot and setting provides a kind of vicarious escape, particularly for those of us unfortunately stuck in places like Michigan at the tail end of a long, gray winter. Dr. Jackie Barnett is a research pharmacologist. She has applied…
There are some Regency Romances that are pleasant to read without being very exciting. This is one of them. Elisbeth Barlow and Lord Thomas Kepley are both very nice people. Kepley defies his family to marry Elisabeth, then goes off to war. When he is reported missing in action, the young lord’s family tries to…
If you like fast-moving stories that combine James Bond-like intrigue with romance, have I got a treat for you! Hot as Ice, the latest in retired Air Force officer Merline Lovelace’s Code Name: Danger series, is a fun story that I devoured in one sitting, and requires only a bit of suspension of disbelief. Major…
One of these days, when someone invents a practical time machine, I am going to spend a few days at Victorian and Edwardian parties. I don’t think I’d like to live there permanently, but it would be fun to dress up in silk and jewels and go to an elegant formal dinner back when dining…
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