Sara Bennett used to write Medievals, some of which got good-ish grades here early on. I thought I’d check out one of her Victorian historicals to see if it had any promise. Frankly, my reactions were all over the map. The book veered from silly, to surprisingly interesting, to outright bizarre. It wasn’t a total…
Loretta Chase rarely lets me down. Very rarely. And, I’m happy to say that Don’t Tempt Me certainly didn’t disappoint. Chase brings all the things she does so well to the table yet again in this one as humor, witty dialogue, and well-fleshed out characters are all present and accounted for. Lucien de Grey, the…
Knight of Desire is a solid first book. The plot had great promise, which wasn’t quite executed to the most of its potential, mainly because of the annoying hero. The rest of the characters are all appealing and memorable, including Jamie, a (surprise, surprise!) three-year old boy. On the eve before her wedding, a young…
Much has been written about the formulaic nature of many historical romances published by Avon and I’m not going to add to the pile ‘o stuff already out there. Still, it is impossible not to make a reference to the publisher when the first Avon novel by Gaelen Foley, an author previously known for her…
I read about half of Meredith Duran’s debut novel, The Duke of Shadows, last year. Somehow, the book just didn’t hit me right, but I thought the author showed promise and her choice of setting was very interesting. So when I saw this one while perusing the books-for-review list, I decided to give her another…
If you want to read Sherry Thomas’s third novel, Not Quite a Husband, choose a moment when you have some time to yourself, because this is a book not so much to devour, but to savor at leisure, like a glass of excellent wine. A short prologue provides us with a glimpse of the deep…
Memory does play funny tricks on you. I bought Across a Moonlit Sea at a UBS because I remembered loving it a few years ago. After reading it, I realised that, although it was still really good, something had changed and it sure as hell wasn’t the book. Mind you, it’s still a wonderful Elizabethan…
McAlistair’s Fortune is such a mild story that I was surprised to find an unpleasant surprise when I was six pages from finishing the entire book. Unfortunately, it was at this point that a side of the hero was revealed that was so shockingly repugnant to me that it sent the grade of the book…
Victoria Alexander’s new series about three aristocratic brothers (what’s new?) is a sequel to her earlier The Perfect Wife, set four generations later in the same family. I chose to review it because the plot revolves about explorers and ancient artifacts, elements I usually like, but this novel left me underwhelmed. Gabriella Montini is determined…
It’s been a long time since I read a book so tiresome that I had to play games to get myself through it. With its colonial American setting, I had high hopes for Black Eagle, but unfortunately, I found myself having to line up Jelly Bellies so that I could eat one every time Black…
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