For years I put off reading The Passions of Emma because it didn’t sound all that romantic to me. I didn’t want to read about the heroine’s dying close friend whose husband is the eventual hero – especially when the romance doesn’t begin in earnest until the last quarter of the book. But true to…
Reading Leaving Whiskey Bend I was hoping for a solid American Western as a break from the norm. Unfortunately for me, I found an American Western with the most ridiculous characters I think I’ve ever read, or ever want to read. Hallie Wolcott left her home and parents years ago to travel west alone to…
Scandalizing the Ton is the third book in series of intertwining characters. It was the first Diane Gaston book I have read and I was pleasantly surprised. The story was well written and I was drawn into it quickly. I did raise an eyebrow having the first sex scene on page 17 but it turned…
In The Price of Desire we meet Alistair Cole, one of those wastrel brothers whom we often encounter in romances set in the 19th century. He likes to gamble, especially in the hell run by Griffith Wright-Jones, the Viscount Breckenridge. When Cole loses over 1,000 pounds, Griffith takes his heirloom emerald ring as a marker,…
The second novel in Elizabeth Hoyt’s Legend of the Four Soldiers series is even better than the first. To Seduce a Sinner is funny and heartbreaking, sexy and poignant. A hung-over Jasper Renshaw, Viscount Vale, has just been left at the altar by his fiancée when he is offered a replacement – by the prospective…
Pam Rosenthal burst on the scene in 2003 with Almost a Gentleman, a genre-bustin’ winner. Though it’s been downhill ever since, the good news is that The Edge of Impropriety is certainly better than her last two, but nowhere in the same league as her first. On the keeping the news positive front, her prose…
Initially, I thought It Happened One Night was a Christmas anthology. It isn’t. Though the cover is snowy, the four stories each take place during a different season of the year. The premise of the book is quite fun and original: Each story has the same basic plot elements. All concern couples who get stuck…
Like No Other Lover combines some of my favorite elements of romance to create a story that at times had me laughing to the point of tears and, at others, had me tearing up in sympathy. The beautiful, yet vulnerable heroine, the scientist hero, a flying marble appendage, and lovely storytelling make it a truly…
Occasionally, I can’t concentrate on a full-length romance novel, and that’s when I grab an anthology. In addition, they are a great place for testing unknown authors and have introduced me to several authors whose works I now collect. Autumn always brings an flood of anthologies with a Christmas theme, and the first that caught…
For a while there, I thought I had a very interesting read when I began The Bride Price, but alas, after a simply fantastic opening, terrible confusion set in. I never bonded with the characters, and closed the book feeling quite disappointed. In his youth, the Duke of Grandien belonged to a group of wild…
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