After writing a number of very enjoyable stand-alone titles, Louise Allen has embarked on telling the stories of the members of a large family. In her case, it’s not a set of siblings, but of cousins. A family tree is printed right at the front of the book, which is a shame, because it contains…
Take a road romance in a too-little used Medieval setting, add just a soupçon of the paranormal, and you have the recipe for a good romance with Magic in His Kiss. Nicole de Leon is a Welsh princess of the Pendragon – King Arthur’s – line through her mother. But when her English father died,…
Duchess by Night is the third installment of James’s Desperate Duchesses series. It features a simple country duchess who crashes a scandalous house party dressed as a man. I enjoyed settling down with this charming historical and I hope to see much more of James’s witty style. As the story begins, our heroine, Harriet, Duchess…
Enticing the Earl opens with maidservants gossiping about the rakish Earl of Sutton, and I was somewhat hopeful, as I have not come across an engaging rake for some time. Shortly thereafter, Lauryn, the widowed heroine, learns that her father-in-law has lost everything in a card game, and I thought, “great, a variation on the…
Unmasked is a solid read which puts a personal face on the concept of freedom in the form of our heroine, who was born into serfdom and slavery in Russia. There are bumps in the narrative along the way, but for the most part, it is an interesting and enjoyable read. Marina Valstoya became the…
This is, sadly, another one of those books I forced myself to read. Saying that, I must add that the last third of the story saved it from a much lower grade. While the plot deals with the meaty issues of spousal abuse and childhood poverty and crime, the characters were uninspiring and the situations…
Jo Beverley’s classic Malloren series is one that I’m slowly working my way through…completely out of order. My Lady Notorious, the first in the series, is a road romance set in a delightful time period in which the author excels featuring two ladies in distress and the soldier who comes to the rescue. What more…
Blythe Gifford’s latest historical romance is set in a most unusual period – Ghent at the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War. That in itself would have drawn my attention, but in addition, Innocence Unveiled proved compelling and interesting, making much of this little-used setting. The historic background is as follows: Edward III of England…
Master of Surrender reads like a wannbe Kathleen Woodiwiss novel with overwrought emotions and prose, a feisty, feisty, feisty heroine and a mean-to-her hero. Which is okay, I suppose, if you like that sort of thing. I don’t. Sir Rohan du Luc and his seven friends (each of whom, I assume, will have their own…
Let’s start off with the good news: Joanna Bourne clearly isn’t a Oneder. (Insert sigh of relief here.) The slightly less good news? My Lord and Spymaster isn’t quite as blow-me-totally-out-of-the-water terrific as The Spymaster’s Lady, but it’s a very, very good historical romance featuring complex and flawed characters far out of the typical wallpaper…
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