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I got off on the wrong foot with Tame Me Not, and unfortunately, I suspect that a lot of other people will as well. The book starts off with Mignonne Saint-Sylvestre, a teenage heroine finishing up a night of work as a “highwayman.” Mignonne, it seems is your basic too-feisty-to-live heroine. Like many tomboy types…
I first picked up Desire’s Blossom when I was ten years old. I was curious about the books with the ugly covers that my sister loved so much. I chose Desire’s Blossom because I read from the back cover blurb that it was partially set in China. I didn’t read another romance book for six…
I love mythology. I’ve loved reading stories of myths and legends since I was a little girl. Unfortunately, the mythological elements in Cupid: The Amorous Arrow are handled with a farcial and sometimes heavy hand. The mixture of gods and mortals worked in Karen Harbaugh’s mythological Regency Romance trilogy, but she based it on the…
What can I say about Great Caesar’s Ghost? Just when I was loathing it with all my heart, something would happen that I really liked. Just when I had decided it had gotten pretty good, something would happen that would make me want to scream with irritation. Irritation won out in the end. The year…
I’ve read stories like Courting Claire before, but not in a romance novel. The usual location for such tales is in Ann Landers’ column, with women like Claire writing in complaining about the awful, selfish men they married. Tyler McCane could be their poster boy. He’s the so-called hero of this book and is so…
I’ve read beautiful heroines and I’ve read plain ones but Jo Beverley did something in Forbidden that I’ve never encountered. She wrote a beautiful heroine who is pitiable precisely because she is so magnificent looking. This is some trick, but it’s not as hard to believe as one first thinks. Regardless of age or beauty,…
I haven’t read a really good vampire romance in a long time, so it was with great anticipation that I began to read Midnight Enchantment. It was an intriguing tale, to say the least, but one with a heroine too flawed to allow me to truly enjoy this book. In turn of the century New…
To coincide with the publishing of Enchanted, the fourth in Nora Roberts’ Donovan Legacy series, Silhouette has reissued the three previous titles at the same time as they published Enchanted. After reading Enchanted, I rushed out and bought the three-story tome, and have already read through the first of this series. I eagerly anticipate reading…
If I were to sum up Loyalty in Death in one sentence, I would say, “This book is ice, frigid, mag, remember the word elevator, and Roarke gets shot.” Alas, I would not be that cruel. And, oh, “mag” apparently means fabulous. In the New York City of sixty years from now, New York Police…
Get out the handkerchiefs ladies, this is a good one! Joe’s Wife is a three hanky read in the best sense. It’s a marriage of convenience story between a widow from a good family and a man who is the son of the town whore. When Tye Hatcher came home from the Civil War, no…
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