Seducing the Heiress caught my eye because it sounded a little different. It’s the first in a series about three sisters from a wealthy, upstart family. Raised in India, they are now back in England – where their mercenary mother intends to marry them all off, preferably to titled gentlemen. It’s not bad for a…
With eye roll-inducing plot twists and a wallpaper historical setting, Lorraine Heath’s newest doesn’t rise above flat out average. It’s a familiarly creaky plot. Eleanor Watkins is a beautiful young woman from the country out to avenge her sister’s death at the hands of an E-E-E-E-E-E-v-i-l dastardly villain (extra Es in all caps required to…
Undoubtedly, A Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James was one of the most highly anticipated novels this year for me, as it was for many other readers. The final volume of the Desperate Duchesses series, it was to contain the romance of the charismatic Duke of Villiers, who’d lost a fiancée to another man…
Sometimes, when I read a book by an author I normally enjoy, I realize partway through that I am going to have to put together a review that pains me to write. This is exactly what happened to me as I read Captured. I have read several of Beverly Jenkins’ books so I know she…
The beginning of Indiscreet is so darn good that I was ready to write this off as a DIK. But…somewhere along the line the story began to lose its luster. Still, when all is said and done, this story remains a very good read that I would recommend to anyone. If only some parts were…
With a prelude that feels like something from a 19th century adventure novel, I got hooked into The Untamed Bride from the very beginning. This book, first in The Black Cobra Quartet, starts off very strong and, were it not for the sometimes kitschy detour into Cynster-land, it would have been a keeper. Even so,…
If it weren’t for one tiny thing, we’d have a solid read on our hands. As it is, all I can say is ew. <a href="http://www.likesbooks.com/banmanpro/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&Task=Click&Mode=HTML&SiteID=1&PageID=33387 ” target=”_blank”> <img src="http://www.likesbooks.com/banmanpro/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&Task=Get&Mode=HTML&SiteID=1&PageID=33387 ” width=”150″ height=”200″ border=”0″ alt=””> Theo Ravenhurst is an antiques dealer who, at the beginning of our tale, is roaming around Burgundy searching for a…
You know, I like cotton candy as much as the next person. But, even if it were made in France and spun from cane sugar and cost $25 a pop, it’s still cotton candy. The Wicked Duke Takes a Wife is gourmet cotton candy – stylish, sweet, excellently spun, and completely and utterly trivial. Harriet…
My history professor was fond of the word reductive. While it is reductive to say that the French Revolution was caused by the revolt of the Third Estate, it is equally reductive to summarize the plot of this book as “Julian, Viscount Braybrook, hires Christiana Daventry as governess-companion and they fall in love and marry…
Lovers of tortured characters will have a field day with Captive of Sin. It’s a sweeping, larger than life historical romance filled with passion, angst and suffering. I thought the beginning was about as good as an historical romance can get, and I was about to proclaim it a DIK before a rushed ending knocked…
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