With this latest installment in the Pink Carnation series, Lauren Willig takes us beyond the front lines of the Napoleonic Wars, off to British India. Penelope Staines, nee Deveraux, has always been a flirt, but when word gets out that she was unsupervised in a bedroom alone with Lord Frederick, marriage is forced upon them….
Sandra Hill may have changed publishers, but one thing certainly hasn’t altered: When you open a book by the author, you know exactly what you’re going to get. Her books are broad, ribald jokes. And completely and totally over the top in every way possible. This one sticks entirely to the author’s formula – which…
Ever since I read What a Scoundrel Wants, I’ve been wanting to see what happened to the heroine’s horrid sister, Ada. In Scoundrel’s Kiss, Ada, our villain, shows a more nuanced side and gets a story of her own that features a fantastic web of plot and some of the morally intriguing characters I’m starting…
Emma Wildes is relatively new to print publishing, but she’s already on my auto-buy list. Lessons from a Scarlet Lady, her second book for Signet, is as good as the first. It’s inventive and well-written, with fabulous love scenes and characters worth reading about. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Brianna Northfield has been…
For some plots to work, the reader needs to suspend their disbelief a bit. Sometimes the only time you can enjoy a story is if you just accept that a character is acting illogically – but without that lack of rational thought, there wouldn’t be a plot. You acknowledge, accept, and enjoy. At the Duke’s…
The Earl and the Governess is better than many Regency-set romances published currently, but despite pleasant prose and likable characters, it is still eminently forgettable. William Stanton, Earl of Lennox, has just acquired a ward. His late friend’s daughter has been permanently dismissed from school and, until he can find another one, Will is stuck…
I have been waiting, along with all the rest of Laura Kinsale’s fans, for Lessons in French for a very long time. Now, having received it and read it, I can say that it’s good, but it’s not what I was expecting and it’s not my favorite book in Kinsale’s oeuvre. Lady Callista Taillefaire is…
I found Promise Me Tonight a tough book to review. Not because I didn’t like it, but more because I couldn’t quite decide what I thought about it (which, believe me, is a problem I rarely have). It really should have gotten on my last nerve, but most of the time I liked it in…
When you’re reading a C book or below, you know it. The Elusive Bride, second in Stephanie Laurens’ Black Cobra Quartet, isn’t one of them. However, there’s no getting around the fact that it failed almost completely to engage this reader. So, what’s the problem? Let’s start with the positive. Stephanie Laurens isn’t telling the…
A Matter of Class is a short novel by Mary Balogh. Not only is it short, but it has large print and lots of white space. Those of you who are frugal might want to check it out at the library, or look for a nice discount. If money is no object – go on…
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