If you are fond of romances that are driven by “the big misunderstanding” then you will probably enjoy Threads of Destiny. It is a book filled with passion, history, deception, intrigue, and good folk and bad folk, but mostly it is about two people who refuse to be honest with each other and yet find…
The Gamble is a book that starts out with an intriguing premise, sets up some interesting characters, abruptly has the heroine make several blatantly stupid moves to keep the plot going, then unravels completely at the end. Too bad, too. Joan Wolf writes very appealing characters, and I had been looking forward to this book….
Romances set in the regency period are being written more and more with strong heroines (the only kind of heroine, to my thinking), and Joan Wolf has certainly done her share to promote this change. The heroine in The Gamble is a great example of a strong heroine. Part of the time. I hate to…
If the game of love for Honoria Wetherby and Devil Cynster is best described as an irresistible force meeting an immovable object, then the biggest question would have to be: Who is the immovable object and who is the irresistible force? Both characters are truly fascinating and completely well-matched. Honoria’s and Devil’s clash of wills,…
Whether or not you take the bet on Laura Parker’s The Gamble depends on how tortured and difficult to love you like your heroes. Because Viscount Darlington, scarred both inside and out by a brutal father, is about as tortured and difficult to love as a hero can get. The book opens when he kills…
I love the Victorian period as much as a lot of romance readers love the Regency period. True, the Victorian age was not as glittering and outwardly colorful as the Regency, but it was a dynamic time full of change, especially for women, and it marked the zenith of the British Empire. I started Never…
Beauty and the Beast stories are favorites with many readers of romance novels. There is just something about the whole premise that lends itself to romance and resonates with readers in a way that other fairy tale archetypes do not. Ravished is a touching and often funny Beauty and the Beast story set in Regency…
Have you ever watched a school play? The kind where inexperienced but passionate actors tromp from one set spot to another, and then stop and give exaggerated speeches, only to move on to the next spot? I never before thought that this could be done in a book, and then I read The Nightingale’s Song….
Well, now those people who like a soft, sensitive, sweet hero – beware!! Philip Evelyn Desborough Hawksbury, Earl of Rothermere, better known as Hawk by his military friends, is about as arrogant and devilish as they come. I loved him. Especially since he met his match in this book with young, headstrong Frances Kilbracken. Watching…
I loved this book. Coulter has the unique ability of taking old tried and true themes and twisting them into an altogether new plot. In this book, Victoria Abermarle is running away from Baron Drago. The Baron is not a nice man, and he’s done his best to seduce Victoria. When that failed, he tried…
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