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  • Lord Nightingale’s Triumph

    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…

  • Lord Harry’s Daughter

    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…

  • In A Class By Itself

    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…

  • In A Class By Itself

    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…

  • After Twilight

    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

    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…

  • Her Best Man

    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…

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