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The Obedient Bride takes on the issue of Regency adultery and humanizes it with the depiction of two very different people caught in an arranged marriage. Many Regency Romances speak lightly of rakes and adultery among the aristocratic classes. Many have heroes who regularly bed married women. Few examine the darker aspects of the matter….
I admit, once in a while, like, let’s say, when I’ve had it with my day job, I dive into my little fantasy of having some sexy, mysterious man take me away to a deserted island, where I am surrounded by luxury and don’t have to deal with petty office politics. After reading this book,…
The Irish Rogue is absolutely, totally, utterly (insert superlative here) charming. It takes many of the characters we have encountered in Regency Romances before, the charming impecunious lass and the dashing titled gentleman, gets them out of London, and places them in Dublin. Ailis O’Neill is the daughter of an Irish Squire. She lives in…
When I Fall in Love is a funny, emotionally intense, and meaningful mainstream romance offered by the author of Beaches, Iris Rainer Dart. It’s a striking combination of real-life tragedy set in bigger-than-life Hollywood, topped off with an ending worthy of a fairy tale. Lily Benjamin is a fighter. As a child, she turned to…
Let’s hear it for all the average girls. It might be too much of a stretch to have Lucky O’Donlon, the most charming and handsome SEAL in Alpha Squad to fall for a woman who is plain, but a big thanks to Suzanne Brockmann for making Sydney Jameson the heroine of Get Lucky an average…
Halfway through Tessa, the second book in Bobbi Smith’s Brides of Durango series, I realized I was rooting for the sweet young couple to find happiness in their future together. Unfortunately, that sweet young couple was not the hero and heroine, but a pair of secondary characters. When secondary characters become more important to readers…
The plot in Cappuccino in the Winter is fresh from the headlines: Hackers break into financial institutions with the potential to bring the planet to its knees. However, much of the freshness of the plot gets stuck in the clichéd characters and stop-and-go pace of much of the book. Alayna Alexander is furious. She’s an…
I read and enjoyed Emma Jensen’s Best Laid Schemes last year, so when I picked up her newest novel, The Irish Rogue, I was expecting something similar – a nice little comedy of manners with some slapstick humor thrown in. I was in for a surprise, but not an unpleasant one. The Irish Rogue is…
Sometimes reviewing an average book can be difficult. The story isn’t bad, just mediocre. You can’t quite put your finger on what’s not clicking. That’s not the case with Deception. With this book, the problem jumps right out at you from the moment the heroine and hero meet. It’s head-hopping. And I don’t mean the…
In search of a hero worth falling for? Able to overlook annoying plot contrivances in order to meet him? Then In the Presence of Angels may be just the book you’re looking for. Major Lord William Fitzpatrick never wanted to become a soldier. He was the type of man who got heartsick at the thought…
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