Fun, arch and filled with personality, The Ladies Rewrite The Rules turns the Regency comedies of manners upon its head and gives readers plenty to enjoy. Diana Boyle is enjoying all the pleasures young widowhood has to offer and has absolutely no plans to re-enter the marriage mart. Unfortunately, the universe seems to have another…
The Gentleman’s Gambit is the fourth and final installment in Evie Dunmore’s A League of Extraordinary Women series. It features suffragist Catriona Campbell and Elias Khoury, who hails from Zgharta in North Lebanon. Catriona’s father has asked Elias for his help in cataloguing some Middle Eastern artifacts, but Elias has his own agenda, and seducing Catriona might get…
Snowed in With the Viking is Lucy Morris’ latest standalone romance. And what a romance it is! It centers around our heroine, Embla, and hero, Runar, as they spend the winter together after an avalanche blocks the exit to the cave they have taken shelter in. It is such an enjoyable and – at times –…
Narrated by Josh Dylan This third book in The Last Binding series won’t work as a standalone. I recommend reading at least one of the previous books first. I enjoyed the first book, A Power Unbound. In the first two books we learn that there are magicians in positions of political power who are scheming…
Silver Lady is a fresh new step for Mary Jo Putney in a lot of ways. It’s a fantasy historical, with some interesting magical systems at play. But at heart, it’s an historical romance, and it’s a well-paced and decent one with likable people struggling against some truly nasty ones. Merryn has been stricken with…
It’s never pleasant to write a critical or negative review of a book by an author whose work you’ve previously enjoyed, but I have to do that now, because Kate Bateman’s Second Duke’s the Charm (book one in her new Charlie’s-Angels-in-the-Regency Her Majesty’s Rebels series) was a big disappointment. With one exception, the things I…
Summerfield’s Angel is the second book in the multi-author Christmas Angel series from 2018. The seven titles (all novellas which can be read in any order) are set in different historical periods – from the Regency to the present day – and locations, and are linked by the eponymous angel, a Christmas ornament that brings the miracle of…
Irish Eyes is both plummily overwritten and enjoyably dramatic. It reminded me of those old John Jakes historical sagas – minus the rape and murder. Or maybe it’s simply old skool without the rape. Riding the borderline between historical fiction and historical romance, its characters are imperfect and its dual romances have some pretty unlovable…
Julian and the Ghosts of Moorcliffe Hall contains all the right ingredients for an entertaining and atmospheric gothic romance. A remote, dilapidated mansion? Check. Things going ‘bump’ in the night? Check. A gruff, taciturn (and handsome) earl? Check. A wide-eyed, innocent protagonist? Er… not quite, but the subversion of that particular trope gives our narrator…
Lotte R. James’ A Lady on the Edge of Ruin isn’t billed as one of the Gentlemen of Mystery series, but it’s tied to it through the heroine, Lady Mary Spencer, who is the sister of Henry, Marquess of Clairbourne (The Marquess of Yew Park House) and long-time friend of Freddie Walton (The Gentleman of…
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