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The Mystery Kiss is a sweet book with an absolutely adorable lead pair of lovers who are not the usual young miss and jaded rake of historical or traditional regency romance. Instead Atticus and Fleur are older, widowed and rather plain. The story they play in is a complicated mystery during which Atticus and Fleur…
When is a handyman not a handyman? When he’s the hero of a romance novel! Handyman heroes are always really something else, except for the hero of Linda Nichols’ The Handyman (but then he was pretending to be a psychiatrist). In Moonglow, Texas the handyman in question is actually a federal agent working for the…
In real life, I am a quiet person, not the sort who runs off chasing action and adventure. Yet I am an unabashed adventure book junkie. When I read them, I can vicariously swashbuckle in a way I would not do in real life. My love of action stories started early. When I was a…
This book had a myriad of problems. Would you want to spend your life with someone who lied to you from the moment you met? This is the heroine with whom the reader is asked to identify. Combine her with a ghost, a curse/prophecy, an orphan child, a mysterious warrior, two brothers who wanna be…
In any romance, there must be conflict between the hero and heroine. That law is as immutable as the HEA ending. This book has a conflict that’s completely silly, but that’s not really what bothers me. What bothers me is that it breaks the less-known rule, coined by my fellow reviewer Marianne Stillings: Do the…
I didn’t like The Dragon’s Bride, Jo Beverley’s latest, as much as I’d expected to based on her earlier books – Secrets of the Night is one of my favorite romances. Although I liked the hero, the heroine, the setting, and the plot, I was plagued by a nagging sense of disbelief as regards the…
When it comes to Regency Romance, we have the excellent, the inoffensive, and the terminally silly. Try as it may, Lady Miranda’s Masquerade comes off as inoffensively silly. It is not just the silly hero and the heroine. It is not just the weak plot. It is not just that the book reads like it…
So many authors, so little time. I’ve been hearing for years that Jo Beverley’s books were really good, but although I own some of them, The Dragon’s Bride is the first one I’ve read. While everyone else was waiting for Rothgar, I was off reading other things. Now I’m contemplating a trip to the bookstore…
Irish Hope is the story of a young woman’s search for true love. It would have been nice had the author made better use of the promising setting, but she seemed to settle instead for oft-used plot devices and plenty of predictibility. The Hope in the title is Lady Hope, who, as the book begins,…
Linda Lael Miller’s latest novel, Springwater Wedding, is a modern-day sequel to her Western Historical series, named for the town of Springwater, Montana. Not having read the previous books in this series, I was a little apprehensive about taking this one on for review. Soon, however, I was practically humming with delight at the wonderful…
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