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The Bad Luck Wedding Night is the continuation of Geralyn Dawson’s Bad Luck Wedding series. The heroine of this most recent installment is the business partner of the heroines from the previous two titles in the series (The Bad Luck Wedding Dress and The Bad Luck Wedding Cake) and the characters from the preceding books…
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…
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 virgin. The cowboy. The virgin and the cowboy. Even if you’re sick of books with yet another virgin and yet another cowboy as the leads, let me urge you to try The Virgin Beauty. Original characterization lifts this book from many similarly-titled ones you might find at the store. Daniel Cash is prepared to…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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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