A Knight of Honor starts out strong, with an interesting plot, intriguing characters, believable dialogue, plus plenty of action. But a sagging middle and character inconsistencies reduce the final result to no more than an average read. At the age of thirteen, Taylor Sullivan is forced to witness her mother burned at the stake for…
For a while when I started The Knight of Rosecliffe I felt like a newbie who had been plunked down in the middle of an X-Files conspiracy episodes marathon. “Who are these people and what are they talking about”? I wondered. Happily, I was able to glean enough of the previous story to figure out…
Watching Dominic Wyndom, ex-spy and younger brother to an Earl, cling perilously to a church steeple makes the perfect opening for Flowers Under Ice. Few rakes, disillusioned or not, are as willing to court death. Soon Dominic learns that his estranged wife Harriet is dead. Her companion, Catriona Sinclair, wants him to travel to Scotland…
Readers of Christina Dodd’s novels may recognize the hero of Someday My Prince as Dominic of Baminia, the villainous bastard brother from The Runaway Princess. In the wake of his failed rebellion, Dom has lead his band of mercenary soldiers through one ill-fated venture after the next until only he and his lifelong friend Brat…
All I Desire is marketed as a romance and it does focus on the relationship between a man and a woman. On the other hand, there is no love – not even love confessed at the very last page. There is no trust as well, and repeated degradation of the heroine at the hands of…
Never Trust a Rake is a book that starts out with a few good ideas, but unfortunately they are never executed well. The secondary characters are interesting, but they back up a hero and heroine who are both too flawed to carry the book. Add a choppy writing style, and you have a book that…
After having authored Signet Regencies for some time, Eileen Putman has written her first, full-length historical, Never Trust a Rake. The hero is likable and the read fast-paced, but there were some problems that I hope will be addressed in future books. Gabriel Sinclair is looking for a virgin. Not for the usual reasons, however….
If I had to choose one author whose books I would take to a desert island, it would probably be Penelope Williamson. Her books really are buried treasures and, without exception, keepers for me. Her characters are explored in depth, her stories excel through the richly textured historical background, her writing is lyrical, and her…
The buzz on Lady’s Tutor is that it is sexually explicit, a very hot book. Romance is often a derivative genre and I wondered, as I opened it, what form this sizzling story would take. Would the writing be romantically sexy like Dara Joy? Would it border on erotica like Beatrice Small, Thea Devine or…
Gosh, I’m really scratching my head here – I just don’t know what to make of this book. I guess I’d have to say it’s odd. It’s just … odd. Anastasia and Breanna Colby are identical cousins and yes, they switch places when it’s convenient. Their fathers, nice Henry and awful George, are twin brothers…
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