Resting on the fine fault line between old skool and new skool, between drama and comedy, is The Trouble with Anna, a readable mixed bag with a lovable heroine and a hero who loves her but could do with some better listening skills. Overall, it’s a fun read. Lady Anna Reston does not care for…
Have you ever had a whole lot of fun reading a book while also being completely mentally exhausted by it? While the Duke Was Sleeping is fast-paced, fun, and spirited, but it’s also such a dizzying merry-go-round you’ll want to sit down and take a breath after a few chapters. Still, it’s a great time….
Alexandra Vashti’s works are light, breezy and fun to soak up. This one, Earl Crush, is a step up from Ne’re Duke Well and is a fine and enjoyable time. Wallflower and heiress Lydia Hope-Wallace is prepared to offer up the ultimate sacrifice to her longtime pen pal in anonymous political rabble rousing, Arthur Baird,…
I’ve been deeply enjoying Adriana Herrera’s Las Leonas series of books, and this one, the last, wraps things up with a fiery doctor and a brand-new member of the aristocracy. Doctora Aurora Montalban Wright has rebelled against the social caste by becoming a physician. Going unrecognized for her medical talents, she runs an above-board general…
I enjoyed the first book in this series, Never Blow a Kiss. It was wallpapery, sure, but very entertaining, with leads who sizzled and dialogue that made me laugh. This one? Still wallpapery, but missing the zing of book one. It’s not terrible, however, and, if you’re looking for fun and forgettable, this does the…
An uneven tone makes The Duke’s Guide to Fake Courtship slow going. Heavy subject matter – including abuse between servants, social snobbery, racism, attempted sexual assault, child murder and mental illness – clashes with light scenes of family, banter and flirtation. It’s much darker than the premise on its back cover suggests, but lacks the…
This is–in some ways–an odd book. The mood is light and humorous and yet the hero struggles with alcoholism, the heroine is on the run from her father who has been molesting her, a woman in the book has been raped and viciously murdered, and the villain responsible for that crime tries several times to…
A Carla Kelly heroine pledging to steer clear of the Navy is as doomed to failure as a couple planning to hook up just once to ‘get it out of our systems’, and Jerusha Langley, of A Naval Surgeon to Fight For, is no exception. After her spendthrift parents appropriate her meager dowry to buy…
Of all the dukes in all the world, why does it have to be him? Lady Alice Ancaster needs a husband, and fast, because her reckless brother is going to get himself killed, leaving the dukedom—and her future—in their repellent cousin’s clutches. The Duke of Blackwood has known Alice since childhood, and they’ve always had…
Terri Brisbin’s His Enemy’s Daughter is the third book in her Knights of Brittany trilogy, but it reads just fine on its own. Set in the time of William the Conqueror, this is a powerful love story with two people navigating the wreckage of their lives, bound by circumstances neither of them chose. Soren Fitzrobert…
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