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Much as I love good, old-fashioned historical romance, I will admit that every once in a long while I tire of it. I long for something unusual. Sometimes my longing is satisfied simply by reading a contemporary romance. Sometimes I’m driven farther afield, and I look into the non-fiction section of my TBR pile. This…
Suede probes the delicate line between childhood and adulthood in this romance using the incubus Scratch that Suede created for his paranormal novella Horn Gate. This time around, however, it’s Scratch’s comic book creator Trip Spector and makeup genius Silas Goodsby who reign in a spritely romance that cuts to the bone. Trip and Silas…
The Bookman’s Tale is the sort of book I have trouble resisting. Hopping back and forth through time periods to solve some literary mystery? You can pretty much always sign me up. But though I basically enjoyed it, I didn’t love it quite so much as I thought I would. It’s fun, but I’m not…
Every time I open a New Adult book I try to expect something unique. It’s true there’s a distinct formula that goes along with the genre, but whenever I start another book I try to forget about that formula and simply enjoy the book. Sometimes this works, and sometimes I find out that the story…
Ballerinas and opera singers often appear in historicals only as the mistresses that aristocratic heroes discard once they meet their more gently-born True Love. Dancing on Air features a ballerina heroine in Victorian England, so I thought it could end up being an interesting spin on convention. Unfortunately, weak writing doomed it almost from the…
Narrated by Rosalyn Landor To start with, I’d like to thank both Ms. Milan and Ms. Landor for a wonderful audio experience. I laughed and I cried – the story was superb, the characters engaging and well-drawn, and the performance exceeded my expectations. Ms. Landor is always excellent, but here, I think she surpassed herself….
Narrated by Carolyn Morris Trust Liz Carlyle to take classic romance tropes – an amnesiac, a jaded hero brought to his knees by love , a plain but kind heroine – and still deliver an enjoyable early Victorian tale with In Love with a Wicked Man. Here we have an at-first-glance-plain heroine, Kate, Lady d’Allenay,…
Narrated by Donna Postel In the late 1960s, a group of young radicals were suspected in the bombing death of a college student during one of their anti-war protests. Twenty-two years later, the group is pulled together once again when the one who has been in hiding turns herself in, and another is shot in…
Narrated by Tatiana Sokolov I read and enjoyed Vivian Arend’s High Passion a while back and I have been meaning to try her Six Pack Ranch series too, which begins with Rocky Mountain Heat. The icing on the cake was the narrator. Tatiana Sokolov will be familiar to many as Tanya Eby. As Tanya informed us in…
A Tryst with Trouble is a thoroughly enjoyable Regency romp in which our two leads – Lord Benborough (Ben) and Lady Barbara Jeffords, by turns bicker, sleuth, and fall in love. It’s a fast-paced, fun read which brought a smile to my face more than once, but there are definitely deeper emotions and insecurities buried…
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