“Jane Austen meets Genghis Khan on the set of Lawrence of Arabia.” – that’s how author Kate Elliott sums up Jaran. It’s an apt description for a rich tapestry of a novel filled with adventure, romance, and clashing cultures, all combined with a certain comedy of manners sensibility about which I believe Miss Austen would…
Normally secondary characters in a novel are just that, secondary. However, sometimes they are wonderful and almost overpower the main characters, and other times they pull the reader right out of the story with their awfulness. Soul Magic featured a secondary character so incredibly annoying that he nearly ruined an otherwise good book. Thankfully, the…
Forced Mate made me laugh, but more in that “you’ve got to be kidding” kind of way rather than a “this book is funny” way. First there are those wonderful new terms that I’m sure will really spice up my conversational technique: “Rut-rageous”, “Unsense”, and “Slack-damn!”. And then there’s the hero, whom I felt terribly…
Wow. What Do You Say to a Naked Elf? is one of the best surprises I’ve had in a long time. It’s hilarious, sexy, romantic, and inventive. The awful (but admittedly attention-grabbing) title caught my eye first; I couldn’t help thinking that romance had sunk to a tacky new low. Then I read the back…
The heroine of Linda Winstead Jones’s latest novel faces quite a challenge. For 300 years the women of her family have been cursed and unable to have a normal relationship because they are doomed to lose any man with whom they fall in love. Through the generations many of the women in the family, including…
This is a difficult synopsis to write, for I didn’t know what was going on for the longest time. I read the prelude twice which, I believe, laid out the rules and history of the fantasy world as described by the pixies Allegro and Largo along with the future roles of the hero and heroine….
The Mountain’s Call is the first Luna release by author Judith Tarr, writing as Caitlin Brennan. While it’s a decent read, the author never really invites the reader into the world she creates. This keeps readers at a distance and unable to become fully immersed in the story. In the author’s fantasy world, gods in…
It’s always pleasant to find a book that enchants you when you least expect it. When I picked up Daughter of Gold, I had no idea what I’d find because the cover made it seem as if the book could be historical, a fantasy, or perhaps a little of both. What I got was a…
Elizabeth Minogue is a new pen name for Elizabeth English, whose medieval trilogy was well received here at AAR. Now she enters the world of Fantasy Romance, a world of mysticism, destiny and romance, with very few missteps. Seven year old Prince Florian of Venya was spirited out of his country after seeing his parents…
Dark, sensual and wholly compelling, Dream of Me is an absorbing read from start to finish. Theron is an incubus, a demon who slips into women’s dreams and fulfills their deepest sexual longings. For four thousand years, he has given women the kind of pleasure they could only find in their sleep, while feeling nothing…
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