Say what you will about Stephanie Laurens, but you always know what to expect when you pick up one of her books. And while I have been known to bemoan the sameness of her “formula,” I cannot deny that sometimes I am just in the mood for a Stephanie Laurens. Sometimes I want to read…
It’s been a long time since I reviewed an historical romance (or read one for that matter) and happily, the first historical romance after my long absence turned out to be a very good one. Karen Ranney is one of those wonderfully dependable buried treasure authors who seem to always deliver, even when the book…
Private Places is billed as an historical erotic anthology. Though the sensuality levels varied wildly from story to story and one historical setting was so one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other, there are a couple of gems in here.
The Wedding Challenge is the third book in Candace Camp’s Matchmaker series, featuring young widow, Lady Francesca Haughston. Though reading the prior two installments wasn’t necessary to enjoying this one, I will probably pick them up next time I get the chance – and I’m very much looking forward to the fourth. Lady Calandra –…
Medeiros’s latest offering, Some Like It Wicked, hooked me from the very first page. Its well-written characters and snappy, intelligent dialogue had me loving almost every moment. Her last several books have been great and I was so happy to see that this one live up to the same standard. I plan to revisit this…
The last book I read was destined for my keeper shelf, so it’s bizarre to me that this one should be as well. It’s actually somewhat difficult to be objective about grading two such books, because naturally they have great differences between them. At first I thought Never Romance a Rake was not quite a…
I don’t how I have missed Julia Justiss’s previous novels, but it is an oversight I will have to correct soon. A Most Unconventional Match was an excellent introduction to her work – maybe too good. The hero is simply wonderful, the heroine’s growth is visible and the plot is believable. Hal is an unusual…
The back of Lessons From a Courtesan sounded very promising, and I eagerly started reading when the book arrived. One chapter in, though, and I realized I was in for an incredibly painful ride. Justin Talbot, Earl of Baybary, just entered a marriage of convenience with Victoria Reed. He weds and beds the girl, then…
I met Jillian Hunter at the 1996 national RWA conference through her friendship with Kathryn Lynn Davis, who wrote my favorite novel (Too Deep for Tears). Because she wasn’t online until fairly recently, I’ve not really kept in touch, but she became an auto-buy author for me after 1997’s Fairytale and 2000’s Indiscretion. Many of…
I like historical romances in general and have a particular weakness for those with a side helping of the dark and gothic. From the cover blurb and the opening chapter, The Midnight Man promised to contain both. Unfortunately it delivered more flashbacks to the “I don’t trust you,” “I don’t trust you either,” and the…
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