This month’s theme – It Came From the 1990s – prompted me to trawl through my collection of nineties Signet Regencies. Gayle Buck’s A Chance Encounter dates from 1991, but unfortunately, it doesn’t hold up as well as some of the other traditional regencies I’ve read dating from that period. On reaching his majority –…
Narrated by Matt Simpson Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms has a Regency-esque feel, set in a world where fae and humans live alongside each other, magic is a part of life, and homosexuality is accepted. While humans and fae interact, their magic is very different. Roger Barnes, a rather ordinary human, is paired with Wyndham Wrenwhistle,…
This review originally appeared in 2014 The Countess’s Groom is a companion novella to Ms Larkin’s novel, The Spinster’s Secret, in which the heroine, Matilda Chapple is living miserably at her cousin’s colourless and dour residence, Creed Hall, and longs to escape. She has no money of her own, and in order to earn some, is writing…
Jo Goodman hasn’t published a historical romance in over five years and more’s the pity. Her work, often dark, always smart, and peopled with leads that feel vividly real, has garnered ten DIKs at AAR as well as a slew of Bs. One Forbidden Evening, first published in 2006 (Goodman has republished much her earlier…
Satisfyingly angsty and filled with sensuality and pulse-pounding action, The Wayward Duke was so good it’s made me want to check out the other volumes in Katrina Kendrick’s Private Arrangements series. Caroline, Duchess of Hastings, has a bum marriage but can paint like nobody’s business. She and Julian, the Duke of Hastings, have forged completely…
Narrated by Steve Worsley Maggie Craig’s Storm Over Scotland series continues with book three, Storm Tossed Moon, another superbly crafted instalment in this absorbing saga of political intrigue and star-crossed romance set in mid-eighteenth century Scotland. These books absolutely have to be read in order, so if you’re new to the series, you need to start…
Meredith Duran, whose absence from the world of historical romance feels like a gaping wound in the genre, is one of the finest writers to ever pen a love story. There’s something almost chemical about the way her flawed-but-magnetic characters, lush historical detail, and intricately woven plots come together—they form stories that don’t just entertain;…
This is the eighth book in The Palace of Rogues series and is about a marriage in trouble. The book is emotional and full of the best kind of angst while still offering the humor Long excels at. Though there are a few things that held it back from being a DIK, I thoroughly enjoyed…
The latest in Julie Anne Long’s The Palace of Rogues series, The Beast Takes a Bride features estranged married couple Alexandra Bellamy and Colonel Magnus Brightwall. After Alexandra is embroiled in a scandal, she and Magnus agree to live together for the first time in their five years of marriage in order to repair their…
This review originally appeared in 2014 Many of the books in Ms Burrowes’ Lonely Lords series have included an element of mystery or suspense alongside the romance, but Andrew has the feel of a gothic romance about it from fairly early on. It also relates strongly to the book that preceeds it – Gareth: Lord of Rakes – which makes…
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