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Although I enjoy an occasional Regency Romance, I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m not a slavish fan of the sub-genre, or books with a sensuality rating of Kisses, but I found The Marrying Man to be well-written and charming, with likable characters and a rather unique plot. There’s not a lot of…
From the first page, Wild Flower by Cheryl Anne Porter is a mess of melodrama and stilted writing. It’s fraught with awkward descriptive phrasing, which is wasted on boring characters who don’t deserve the effort. They all act so erratically that characterization is either non-existent, or contradicts itself every few pages. It got so bad…
What a good writer Judith Ivory is! The Indiscretion neatly divides into two parts, and if I could have graded simply the first part, it would have been an A+. It is in this part of the book that main characters Sam Cody and Lydia Bedford-Browne are forced to spend time on the moors in…
Return with me to the early days of the historical romance where all the men were handsome, arrogant and shirtless, all the women were blindingly beautiful and oh so feisty, and the prose was so purple you could have used the ink to dye your Easter eggs. If that’s your cup of Earl Grey –…
Many books (some of them mysteries) are set in Elizabethan England but there aren’t any others that can claim to have Queen Elizabeth herself doing the investigating. What amazed me in Karen Harper’s first historical mystery, The Poyson Garden and this one, is that Elizabeth’s sleuthing actually makes sense. She has formed a Privy Plot…
Passing Fancies is one of my all-time favorite romances. Elizabeth Mansfield has written more than thirty Regency Romances over the years, but in my opinion, this one is her very best. It’s one of the few books I have that I would run into my burning house to save. But luckily for me, it has…
I don’t generally read time-travel romances. I loved the first couple I read, which were from a YA series that I positively adored (and whose title and author I have since forgotten). But my very first adult time travel romance turned out to be a tragedy, which put me off the whole sub-genre for many…
When I closed this book, I found myself shaking my head, wondering how the idea of what constitutes a good romance could possibly vary so widely. My idea of a good romance: the couple meets, gets to know each other, and falls in love. The author’s idea: the couple meets, the hero kidnaps the heroine…
In all honesty, I was never able to lose myself in this book. Why that was, I just don’t know. Perhaps it began with the cover – a slick looking guy with a poufy perm. Perhaps there were simply too many characters in the story (brothers and cousins and sons, oh my!). Perhaps the premise…
A lovely story, this. Quite so, yes, and if you’re a fan of the BBC, archaeology, ancient legends, guilt-riddled heroes, friendly supporting characters, subtle mysteries, and the fascination of modern forensic science (this book blends it all very nicely), you are certain to enjoy Silence and Shadows. When I first opened the book and read…
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