In Mimi Matthews’ Appointment in Bath, the Burton-Smythe family and the Beresford family hate each other, but when Ivo Beresford sees Meg Burton-Smythe in need of assistance after falling from her horse, it’s love at first sight. Two households, dignity, fair Verona, yadda yadda. Ivo and Meg are the children of the protagonists of a…
Caroline Linden is one of my favorite historical romance novelists. Her Scandalous series is one of my favorites in the genre–Love and Other Scandals is flat out fabulous–and I’ve enjoyed her most recent series, The Wagers of Sin. Fortune Favors the Viscount is the fourth and final novel and gets a pleaseed DIK from me….
Laura Lee Guhrke has done it again. I picked up Bookshop Cinderella on a Tuesday when I was bored and had nothing to do. By Wednesday I was re-reading my favorite parts and marveling over an author who can turn an age-old story into something fun and new. Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, is determined…
Remember Me is the second book in a series about the Ware siblings, who had their lives interrupted by a family scandal, changing their family forever. I enjoyed the first book (Remember Love), so I was really excited to get my hands on this one. Sadly, however, I was very disappointed. Philippa is the oldest…
Mary Balogh does it again with the latest instalment in her Ravenswood series, Remember Me. The book gives us angst, gives us several love stories worth crying over, and tells multiple family stories while managing to balance out its narrative. It’s not my favorite Balogh ever, but it’s still a good book. Lady Philippa –…
In the author’s note of her debut novel, Forever Your Rogue, Erin Langston writes: I had been halfheartedly researching an entirely different plot for Forever Your Rogue when I stumbled upon a piece of legal scholarship that completely ignited my story. The case, De Manneville v. De Manneville (1804), involved a mother seeking custody of…
This is the third and final book in the Duke’s Heiress series. I chose it because I remember enjoying the author’s Seducers series back in the early 2000’s. The hero of this book is Nicholas Radnor, the Duke of Hollinburgh, who inherited his title and lands when his eccentric Uncle Frederick died by falling off…
I am thrilled to see Julia Bennet again publishing historical romance. Her first two novels, The Madness of Miss Gray and The Ruin of Evangeline Jones, are four star reads for me and, were I awarding points for simply being more interesting than the vast majority of historical romances I’ve read in the past five…
Second in Sarah Rodi’s Rise of the Ivarssons series, Escaping with Her Saxon Enemy features Lord Ashford – Ash – Stanton and shield maiden Svea Ivarsson. Ash once robbed Svea of her chance for revenge against Lord Crowe, the man who assaulted her and changed her life forever, and she has despised him ever since….
The Iron Warrior Returns is one of a number of medievals I’ve seen slowly making a comeback at Harlequin Historicals (new full-length mass market medievals remain elusive). Unfortunately, it isn’t a good example of the genre. Lord Robert of Penrith, his illegitimate half-brother Piers, and the miller’s children, Morwenna and Brian, were captured during an…
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