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The title of this book should be Enduring Lust, since the only thing I could figure out that the hero and heroine had in common was raging physical desire for each other. Mind you, it’s not a particularly bad book. It’s not good, but it’s not bad. It’s just sort of there. Brand Carendon, star…
Morgan St. James, Viscount Barlowe, was your typical London rake until he tried to rescue his servants from their overcrowded quarters during a fire on the eve of his wedding. As a result of that fire, many of his servants and their children were burned to death. Morgan suffered severe scarring on his neck, hands,…
Seth Lindow is the adopted son of the Duke of Derwent. He is a capable and intelligent man and serves the duke as his man of affairs. The duke’s biological son and heir, the Marquis of Belincourt, is a problem. Bel is not just wild, he sometimes acts as if he is insane. Sowing your…
Some time ago, I read a review of Barefoot in the Grass by Judith Arnold. The story line intrigued me enough that I went out of my way to find it through an internet used book site After I received the book, I put it in my library for later. A year later, looking for…
Ever have one of those reading experiences that left you feeling frustrated? All the ingredients for a great story were there, but for some reason the book just didn’t hit the mark for you? That’s what I went through reading The Runaway Bride, by Sandra Chastain. It’s an adequate book, but I came away from…
Belonging is a very good piece of women’s fiction, but it is not a romance. A romance, to me, has the development of the relationship between the hero and the heroine as the primary focus (haven’t we discussed this at length many times at AAR?). In Belonging, romance elements play such a small role that…
Mercedes Lackey is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read most of her work and enjoyed it immensely, except for this book. It is presented in almost a fairy tale manner (considering it is based on the story the ballet Swan Lake itself was based on, that’s not surprising). While fairy tales engage the reader…
Too Wicked To Love takes a familiar theme, gives it a fresh slant, and presents the reader with a love story that has some nice little twists and turns along the way. And that step-back cover isn’t so hard to take, either. Sour old spinster Miss Jane Mayhew steps out her front door one morning,…
Love seems to me to be a fairly magical thing, especially in romance novels. What could be more magical than the unlikely coupling of the gentlemanly Geoffrey and the shrewish Elene in Deborah Simmons The De Burgh Bride or Reggie’s rake and Alys’s reformer in Mary Jo Putney’s The Rake? Sometimes of course, magic makes…
Lady Alice Scarcliffe, the heroine of Mystique, is exactly the kind of woman I would want for a best friend. In fact, she reminded me of my own best friend, right down to her flame-red hair and independent spirit. And, reading Mystique was much like a conversation with my best friend – fun but not…
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