The eldest of the Duke of Bransford’s three sons, Royal Dewar has lived the past seven years in Barbados overseeing the operation of his family’s plantation. He’s called home to his father’s death bed and is shocked to see the family estate in great need of repair and missing many of its paintings and household…
With a setting beyond the traditional and consistent characterizations, Anne Gracie’s To Catch A Bride is a bright spot in what seems to be a dull selection of historical romances recently. When it becomes obvious that Rafe Ramsey will be his brother’s heir, the pressure is on to marry and produce his own progeny. Rafe,…
As soon as I finish writing this review, I am going out and buying Goddess of the Hunt and Surrender of a Siren, the first two books in Tessa Dare’s series. If they are as good as A Lady of Persuasion, I know I am in for a wonderful time reading them. In Goddess of…
Usually when you read a book, you expect the plot to go somewhere. Instead, To Wed a Wicked Earl has a tendency to wander in circles, skip over parts, and jump into places it doesn’t belong. Charlotte Greene is a well-known (but gorgeous) wallflower who is jilted in a bizarre and anachronistic Bachelor-like competition (complete…
I have read Lord of Scoundrels three times now. The first time in 1999 when I discovered AAR’s Desert Isle Keeper page (back when there was a special page), again in 2004 after it won the #1 slot on that year’s Top 100 Romances poll, and this last month for AAR’s Book Club. From reading…
The Lone Texan is the conclusion to Jodi Thomas’s Whispering Mountain series. It begins slowly, has an exciting middle, then limps to the end. While I enjoyed it in a mild sort of way, it never totally engaged me. Sage McMurray grew up on the Whispering Mountain ranch, raised by her brothers. Drummond (Drum) Roak…
Normally I don’t like romances that are based on deception. They just sit badly with me. However, Gayle Callen made this plot far more palatable for me in Never Marry a Stranger, which managed to add a level of rationality and plausibility to a farcical set-up. Captain Matthew Leland was injured while fighting in India,…
You’ll have to forgive me. This review for Beauty and the Duke appears later than it should have; I simply couldn’t make myself read it any faster. Christine Sommers is a spinster with ambitions to become a great paleontologist. She has spent most of her life following her father from dig to dig and craves…
Never Love a Lawman sat in my Amazon shopping cart for three months as I anxiously awaited its release. I love western romances – and I mean love them – and it’s rare that I connect with today’s offerings. But somehow, I just knew Jo Goodman would deliver a satisfying western tale and I wasn’t…
Elizabeth Hoyt has earned seven DIKs at AAR. Sometimes it sucks to buck the trend, but you do what you must. And in this particular case, this book is really, really good. But it isn’t great. After his regiment was massacred in North America and following seven years of Indian captivity, Reynaud St. Aubyn, heir…
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