So often, authors load their books with hot sex scenes that don’t seem to mesh with the rest of the story. But in The Seduction, Nicole Jordan deftly handles the tensions and emotions that such rampant sexuality can stir up without scrimping on sensuality. Vanessa Wyndham’s younger brother Aubrey has incurred an enormous debt while…
Joan Wolf has many devoted fans who will probably enjoy Golden Girl. However, unlike most of her previous books which were written in the first person, Golden Girl has abandoned that style and gone in the opposite direction, giving everybody, including even the lowliest stable hand, a point of view. My personal taste runs to…
The Silver Coin is certainly not the worst book I’ve ever read, but on so many levels, it just didn’t work for me. While it is technically an historical romance, it has a strong suspense plot which is the focus of the entire book. Unfortunately, I found it boring and not at all suspenseful. Someone…
The biggest disappointment I felt after reading this book was that it gave ill treatment to a character I had grown to love. In The Heiress Bride, the third and what I thought was the last installment of Coulter’s Bride trilogy, feisty, witty, irreverent Sinjun Sherbrooke gets plunged headfirst into a deep, gray well of…
Dawnflight tells the story of how Guinevere and Arthur met. Only this isn’t the Guinevere of legend. She is Gyanhumara (Gyan), the chieftainess of a fierce Pictish clan. Unlike the Brytoni women, Gyan wears clan tattoos and knows how to use a sword. To fulfill a treaty, Gyan must marry Urien, the son of a…
Of Noble Birth is not bad so much as it is thoroughly, horribly depressing. This is a romance with an hea ending, something I had to remind myself repeatedly just to get through the book. Murphy’s Law works overtime here, because until they reach the ending, everything that happens to the characters is awful, and…
Be careful what you ask for; you might get it. My number one complaint about many romances I have read and reviewed is lack of editing. If only they had been disciplined, polished and given all that surface shine they richly deserve they would have been so much better. Princess is the opposite: a book…
First published in 1989 as a Regency, this rewrite of The Would-Be Widow brings us the story of a beautiful and wealthy young woman who weds a dying soldier in order to secure her inheritance. This is an intriguing premise for a love story, especially since the man in question suddenly makes a complete recovery…
Wow! Not only is this the best book in Jill Barnett’s Medieval series, this is the best Barnett book I’ve read, period. To be fair, I’ve yet to read Bewitching, which is a favorite with many. Nevertheless, this book is a real stand-out. It has an epic quality which I loved, a very special heroine,…
Have you ever read a book and been enthralled? I mean wrapped up to the point where you are lock-yourself-in-the-room-stay-up-all-night-I’ve-got-to-find-everything-this-woman-has-ever-written enthralled? A couple of years ago I picked up Heartless, the first book I had ever read by Mary Balogh and went into the lost-in-a book zone. I went to work the next day, spaced…
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