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Over Christmas vacation I had the delightful experience of finding a book that I will always keep and remember. It was Karyn Monk’s Surrender to a Stranger, a wonderful book set in England and Paris during the revolution. Imagine my delight when I discovered that this author had a new book coming out. Wow. I…
Other reviewers at this site have liked Julia London’s novels, so I was looking forward to reading this one. This is an unfortunate example of what different tastes we reviewers have. Adrian Spence kills one of his best friends at the opening of this novel. He and his remaining two friends, a group known as…
One of my all time keepers is Rachel Gibson’s Truly, Madly, Yours. I don’t know if that’s because I have spent a great deal of my life obsessing about my hair, but I think it’s got more to do with the witty, fast-paced situations and characters Ms. Gibson created. I am glad to say that…
Oh, how I wanted to like this book! Tender Escape features an unusual heroine: she’s older and larger than the usual romance ingenue. Olivia Hammond raised two children (now college-age), provided for them after being widowed, and became a successful business owner in the process. I liked her right from the start. Unfortunately, everything else…
Thirty-four year old Mya Williams’ romantic relationships suffer from the lack of a positive male role model in her life. Her father has made a habit out of cheating on her mother. Her brother Mark is turning out to be just as much a player as his father. Her 64 year old Uncle Brother has…
The Bartered Bridegroom is hardly the usual “comedy of manners” one expects from a Regency Romance. I am happy to say, however, that it is an engaging story of two people who have pretty much accepted the terms life has to offer, and who, with each other, find much, much more. Lord Benjamin Whitbury and…
I don’t read many Regency Romances, so I’m pretty picky when I do read one. Since I’m always eager to read a new-to-me author, I had high hopes for Dorothy Mack’s The Gold Scent Bottle, especially since the title was so intriguing. Unfortunately, I was left feeling flat by the end of the book. Four…
I’ve always said that a good writer can pull anything off, but some plots are harder to swing than others. One of the very hardest is the “wild child” story where one of the two main characters has been raised in a “primitive” culture. This goes double when the country of origin is imaginary. All…
The Troubles in Northern Ireland have been documented in movies and books, in all the neverending grimness of the situation. But in Carole Bellacera’s Border Crossings, we see them through the eyes of a young American woman who gets drawn into the violence because she’s married to an Irishman. 1991 Ireland. We catch a glimpse…
The Mistress of Rosecliffe succeeds in providing plenty of Medieval flavor set against the backdrop of the Welsh-English conflict. This well written tale, with an interesting although familiar plot, makes for the final installment in Rexanne Becnel’s Rosecliffe trilogy. Isolde FitzHugh is determined not to marry the uninspiring man her father has chosen for her;…
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