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One of the greatest thrills about reading, for me, is to begin a new book and within the first few pages realize that it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. I get a shiver and I breathe a sigh of contentment and just fall into state of near total euphoria. This book will…
As a rule, when I discover an author, I try to read her entire backlist. I thought I had done so with Judith McNaught until a friend suggested A Kingdom Of Dreams. As a huge fan of Whitney, My Love, I was excited to discover that Whitney’s hero is a descendant of the characters in…
While The Boyfriend School is not a romance novel per se, it shows up on several romance readers’ Desert Isle lists because it is an affectionate and hilarious view of the genre. I’m not sure how readily available it is, but check out your local library and you might get lucky. Gretchen Griner is a…
My all-time favorite romance is somewhat unusual. It’s a book called Shane written by Jack Schaefer back in 1949. Most people might say, “Hey, that’s not a romance, that’s a western.” But this book is about a very powerful love triangle, and yes, it’s true, it is a western and the hero and the heroine…
As a reader of romance, I have two visions of Scotland. One is of the Highlands written about by Kathryn Lynn Davis, the achingly romantic, robust, tragic, powerful, magical, life and love-giving Highlands. The other is the romantic, sexy, hilarious Highlands written about Julie Garwood in such classics as The Bride and Saving Grace. Fans…
After noticing that author Margaret Moore had published several books in the past few years, and that none written for Harlequin Historicals had received above a rating of 3 from a leading romance publication, I became curious. Surely there must be something to her books, else why would she still be cranking them out? More…
Beauty of the Mist, I suspect, is a book that many romance readers will enjoy. Unfortunately, I cannot count myself among them, and am fully aware that by writing a negative review of this book, I should probably keep a fire extinguisher handy. The third in a medieval Scots trilogy, Beauty of the Mist is…
A Whisper of Violets is as beautiful a romance as its title suggests. As a lovely, violet-eyed heiress joins up with a supposedly treasonous Earl to both clear his name and retrieve a musical score for her dying aunt, the reader is quickly captivated by each of their plights, and that as well of the…
The Wild Baron is quite simply one of the most delightful books I’ve read. I applaud the panache and aplomb with which Catherine Coulter has created this diverting Regency-era tale of romance and suspense. While the spine of the book calls it simply a novel, its is part romance, part suspense, part pure farce. It…
Secrets in Satin is an amazingly good read. It is exciting, filled with political intrigue and danger without drowning in it. It is romantic as well, although the romance is written less personally than I generally prefer. Overall, this is an excellent book that would have been a Desert Isle Keeper had it not lost…
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