What would you do if your best friend mysteriously “disappeared?” You’d investigate until you got to the bottom of the matter, of course! And that’s exactly what Liberty Thornhill does in Linda Ladd’s A Love so Fine. While the book has a strong plot-line, the author doesn’t do nearly so well in portraying her characters,…
Taming Rafe starts with a bang, and ends with a fizzle. The opening scenes promise intriguing characters, witty dialogue, and sizzling sexual tension. By the end I still liked the characters, but the witty banter had become more like bickering, and the sexual tension had taken a nose-dive. When these problems are added to a…
Wicked Angel is author London’s second book; the hero and heroine of her first novel, The Devil’s Love, appear as secondaries here. I am very much impressed by the writing in Wicked Angel, the complex characterizations, and the emotion the author was able to convey through the characters’ words and deeds. For many pages into…
One of the best things about discovering an author with their debut book is that as a reader you get to watch that author grow and tune their craft. Such is the case with Julia London. I first discovered this new talent with her first book The Devil’s Love. Her newest release, Wicked Angel shows…
It’s not unusual for a girl to have a crush on her older sister’s suitor. What is unusual is for that older sister to choose her little sister’s crush to be her next husband. But marrying the wrong sister is the least of Bryce Falconer’s problems in Never Say Never, the third installment in the…
Silk and Shadows is one of the books in Mary Jo Putney’s Silk trilogy. These books are set in London during the early Victorian era, a time that is not often used in a romance novel. One reason I love Mary Jo Putney is that her heroes, Reggie in The Rake, Michael in Shattered Rainbows…
I’ve read plenty of historicals with Bow Street Runners before, but Lisa Kleypas’ upcoming release, Someone to Watch Over Me, is the first I’ve read with a Runner as the hero. The novelty of this perked my interest immediately, though the hero’s initial behavior left something to be desired. Fortunately, his behavior improved. On the…
There was a lot I liked about Lisa Kleypas’s new historical romance Someone To Watch Over Me starting with the hero’s profession. He was a Bow Street Runner. These were the predecessors of the bobbies. The Bow Street Runners were more like detectives than real policemen, and they worked on a fee and reward basis….
Emma Greyson is a young woman living in Regency England working as a lady’s companion in order to support herself and her sister, who is attending a school for young girls. She is tired of the impoverished, underappreciated life that comes with working for the wealthy of London and waits for an investment she made…
Should a reviewer judge a book against the marketplace or against an author’s previous works? It would be impossible to eliminate the impressions left by earlier books, and yet, if an author has achieved greatness in the past, it’s unfair to make her achieve greatness every time. Such is the conundrum facing this reviewer at…
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