I have seldom met a Scottish romance I didn’t like. All good streaks must come to an end though, and I must admit that A Year and a Day was really not my cup of tea. Although I enjoyed Enslaved, an earlier romance by author Henley, the language in this book very nearly intolerable, especially…
Sandra Lee’s debut as a romance author is a fairly good one – her voice for comedy and off-beat characters is a delight, and her earthy prose well suits the medieval setting. This book is well-paced and fun to read for the most part. Where the author gets into trouble, however, is in the Big…
Call Down the Moon is the sequel to Once Upon a Dream. It is fairly well-written, with interesting – though not always likable – characters. I was alternately sympathetic with the hero as he tried to “grow up,” and impatient that it took him so long. The heroine is charming and intelligent, but it took…
Portrait of My Heart is wickedly funny, wickedly sexy, and just downright wicked. It is a hybrid, strangely enough, of a screwball comedy and a black comedy. Through witty writing, author Patricia Cabot has created a selfish and immoral hero but made him lovable from the start. Okay, she also has given Jeremy, Duke of…
Highland Treasure is different from other Scottish romances that I have read, and I enjoyed the unique perspective. It takes place in 1753, after the second Jacobite rebellion, which in itself is not unique. What makes it different is that the hero is a Campbell who didn’t fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie – he was…
What makes a book great? Believable characters, a fast paced plot, a satisfying ending and a well-written story. Brazen Angel by Elizabeth Boyle hosts an entire cast of believable characters, from the leads right down to the walk-ons. The story moved as such a quick pace that I could scarcely draw breath. As I turned…
When I finished reading Lady of Conquest, I hurled it through the air, and it hit my living room wall with a satisfying thwack. Believe me when I say that this was the sole satisfaction derived from this book. Unless you really enjoy books in which the hero and heroine spend the entire time hating…
Wild is the sequel to Wonderful, which came out last year. Like Wonderful, Wild has some humorous moments and likeable characters. But while Wonderful has these moments interspersed throughout, in Wild all the humor and the interesting characters come in the last quarter of the book. The result is an uneven book that could have…
There’s just something about a hero who charges out of the dark to save women and children from the hands of vile villains. There’s something else altogether about a heroine who returns the favor by saving him! I knew right from the opening chapters of The Wild One when just such a scene took place…
I love historical novels set in the regency period and I had heard some good things about this book, but I found myself picking it up and putting it down again and again and again. It’s not that I disliked this book but I just could not get involved with it. Indiscreet begins with the…
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