I had hopes. Oh, how I had hopes. But alas, my Lady Defiant was a little too (urk) defiant for me. Oriel Robinson is twenty years of age and living with her detested relatives in the northern boondocks of Elizabethan England. As a great heiress, she receives many suitors in their corner of the island,…
It’s funny. Recently I found myself wondering where all the good Medievals had gone. I find the occasional winner at Harlequin, but it’s been ages since I’ve read a good, meaty Medieval historical. And then, as soon as I wished it, one landed in my review pile. If you’ve been looking for a strong Medieval…
I finished Julia London’s Highland Scandal on a Friday, and started this review the following Monday. When I sat down to write, I realized the details of the story were surprisingly fuzzy in my mind, and I had to go back and refresh my memory; all I could really remember is that I mostly enjoyed…
When I read historical romance, I read it for two things – the history and the romance, both of which must be believable. In The Club there is little of either, and what is there is farfetched. To find a missing friend, Jane St. Giles, Lady Sherringham, is willing to take extraordinary risks – like…
The last time I gave a DIK to Suzanne Enoch, it was London’s Perfect Scoundrel, about a seriously bad boy scoundrel (duh) who falls for a proper lady and rescues her from her uncaring, exploitative family. Now, normally when I encounter repeat plots I start thinking the author’s run out of juice, but when the…
Duncan Pennethorne, the Earl of Sheringford, left London five years ago as the subject of a most juicy piece of scandal. Upon wooing a beautiful young woman – in what seemed to be a love match, no less – he practically left her at the altar only to run away with his future brother-in-law’s wife….
What a pleasure it is to read a debut romance from a promising author! Though a few plot elements struck me as…well, contrived and the second half of the book segued into some melodrama that was pretty darn melodramatic, Her Ladyship’s Companion should leave many historical romance readers hopeful that a new author might be…
When you’re reading a book that is a step or two – or six or seven – above the norm, you know it almost immediately. Such is the case with The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie. The characters here are so complex and so real that I was fascinated by their journey. Add in the…
If there is one thing that William Chambers, Duke of Bedford, does not want, it is to get married. But life has taught him that duty and responsibility often call for one to do the necessary, rather than the preferred and sometimes the sacrifice must be made. It’s scarcely significant who the bride is as…
Mastering the Marquess is Vanessa Kelly’s first book and it’s a decent, although not exceptional debut. The story is pleasant and the characters are too, but the book was not one to linger in my mind. Meredith Burnley and her half sister Annabel are in a very uncomfortable situation. Annabel is wealthy from a legacy…
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