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Lord Nightingale’s Triumph is the latest installment in an ambitious Regency soap opera whose reach exceeds its grasp. This book is every inch the soap, with paper-thin characters and ludicrous-but-intriguing plot twists from long-lost twins to buried treasure. Unfortunately, in hewing so closely to the rules of soap opera, the book lets a few crucial…
After reading the first two chapters of this book, I knew exactly where the story was headed. There were absolutely no surprises, and that made for a boring read. This book is part of a series, and the first two titles were apparently better than this one. Had I read the other books, it might…
For the first 19 chapters of this book, I was loving it. I loved the setting – Spain during the Peninsular Wars. It gave a good description of the lives of the wives and daughters who followed the drum – something we don’t often see in a Regency Romance. I loved the main characters, Lord…
The dust jacket of In A Class By Itself says, “classic Sandra Brown,” and for once the dust jacket tells the truth. It was originally released as part of the Loveswept series of contemporary romances in 1984, and for those of us who enjoy Brown’s old Loveswepts, it’s a happy discovery. Their ten-year high school…
Sandra Brown’s Sandra Brown’s In A Class By Itself is a guilty pleasure if I ever read one. It’s a reissue from 1984 and make no mistakes, it’s got “Eighties” written all over it. It’s a curious mixture of some of the most ridiculous romance clichés packed in a very entertaining parcel I felt compelled…
The prologue in After Twilight sets up what is supposed to be the defining moment in Kacy Macgrath’s life, the moment that reinforces lessons she learned as a child. She and her husband, Alex, are arguing about their disintegrating marriage and he heads out into a fierce storm. Kacy (or Kirsten as she was known…
This Perfect Kiss is a really fun book. It’s very contemporary, with characters that actually seem to live on the same planet we do – at least most of the time. It’s also funny in a very outlandish way. Occasionally it really goes over the top, but most of the time I was having way…
With the success that she has enjoyed from The Lady’s Tutor and, currently, The Lover, Robin Schone has made a name for herself as one of, if not, the best writers of erotic, romantic fiction. It is because of this success that her first published book, Awaken, My Love is commanding as much as $80.00…
In the last book I read I was annoyed by abrupt changes in characterization. This was definitely not a problem with Her Best Man; the characterizations were so thinly developed that any change would have been welcome, as it would have indicated that there was some characterization going on. Unfortunately, there were no changes in…
This is a difficult book to review, primarily because most of the problems occur in the last quarter of the book, and thus are difficult to explain without revealing too much. In If She Only Knew Ms. Jackson takes what could be a fairly trite plot and turns it into a very interesting puzzle. The…
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