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  • Tom Jones

    Egad! Was this the first romance novel? If you’re the sort of reader who takes literary arguments seriously, you’d better grab the Alka-Seltzer bottle before reading on – because this little essay may give you a headache and a stomach ache at the same time. I’m going to try to convince you that perhaps the…

  • Wild For You

    Most romance novels are full of what the ignorant call clichés, but what we who love the genre prefer to think of as archetypes. A few of them are only to be expected, but Wild For You piles them on relentlessly. We have: A tall, dark and handsome hero with a great secret in his…

  • The Larkswood Legacy

    The Larkswood Legacy is a traditional regency where the main characters play out their romance in the midst of a crowd. Kudos to Nicola Cornick for a wonderful group of supporting characters and for not losing sight of the main couple in a nicely complicated plot. Toward the end of the story, the heroine Annabella…

  • Border Lord

    Treachery and secrets abound in this story about an English spinster and the man who really doesn’t want her in his life because he already has enough on his plate. Fate, however, has something else in mind for these two in Border Lord. Duncan Maxwell’s life is turned upside down by two events: his salt…

  • Scandalous

    When I first heard that Karen Robards’ new novel was a historical, I was excited. I’ve enjoyed nearly all of her historicals in the past, and the mention of Ceylon in the blurb called up memories of Green Eyes, which was set almost entirely in Ceylon and is one of my favorites by her. While…

  • The Knight

    Having read and enjoyed Juliana Garnett in the past, I requested this book and looked forward to reading it. This is one author who knows her medieval history, does her homework, and is capable of creating complex characters and interesting plots. A few chapters into The Knight, however, I began to suspect this particular effort…

  • Ritual of Proof by Dara Joy

    Ritual of Proof features a sheltered but willful young virgin, an inescapable arranged marriage and an evil villain hell-bent on destroying the couple’s blossoming rapture. Is that a snore I hear? So, you think you’ve read this story a few hundred times already? Why would you even consider paying hardcover price for this tired old…

  • Fallen

    Emma Jensen’s new book, Fallen is the sequel to her 1997 release, Entwined. In it we meet another casualty of the Napoleonic wars and another MacLeod sister. This book had an interesting setting and premise and was well written, but somehow it never quite took off for me. Gabriel Loudon, the Earl of Rievaulx, was…

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