The final installment in Kimberly Logan’s series featuring the Daventry sisters, Seduced by Sin is just plain dull and somewhat annoying. To make matters worse, I didn’t like either of the main characters. On the bright side, however, I did like the cover. Lady Aimee Daventry was the only witness to her mother’s murder, and,…
On board a packet ship returning to England from a visit to Ireland, Adam Vickery, the Marquess of Tannerton, observes a woman who is prisoner to a Bow Street Runner. The ship founders, and the Runner callously takes the last place in the boat, leaving the woman to die. Tanner has guilt issues; he feels…
I picked up The Governess Wears Scarlet over a month ago, read a few chapters, put it down, read a few more books, picked it up again, read a few more chapters, put it down, read a few more books. Repeat several times before I finally managed to finish it. It wasn’t exactly a book…
The Duke Next Door features one of the most infuriating heroes I’ve ever come across. That’s also not to say I disliked the book – or the hero, really. To tell you the truth, I quite liked him. Calder Marbrook, the Marquis of Brookhaven, was just left at the alter. His first wife died in…
Untamed is the last in Hope Tarr’s Men of Roxbury trilogy. This series, set in late Victorian England, features friends who grew up in an orphanage and later became successful adults. Each of the books in the series should appeal to readers who are tired of wallpaper historical romances. While this book has some wonderful…
A Lady’s Secret, Jo Beverley’s newest, is a fun, “nun on the run” road romance set in her Georgian Malloren world. And yes, Rothgar makes an appearance. Robin Fitzvitry, the Earl of Huntersdown, is returning to England after a visit to Versailles, when he sees a beautiful woman in a nun’s habit swearing up a…
After reading only three chapters of Distracting the Duchess by Emily Bryan, I decided I would have to submit the book’s heroine to the Mary Sue Litmus test once I had finished reading. Come on! The woman has raven hair, moss-green eyes and a voluptuous figure. She shares her home with two cats. Her father…
A word on word count: At approximately 200 words per page, this one comes in at just about 72,000. In direct comparison, another Avon historical I picked at random adds up to more than 92,000. Big difference. Which begs the question: Would an additional 20,000 words have resulted in a better book? Probably not much,…
One of my favorite devices in romance is the juxtaposition of character types. I love it when a too-serious hero or heroine is confronted with a partner who knows instinctively how to deflate those over-inflated egos with surgical precision. Think Lizzie and Darcy. Or, more to the point here, Wulf and Chrstine from Mary Balogh’s…
Many know the history of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony – how he initially dedicated it to Napoleon, whom he admired as the embodiment of the ideals of the French Revolution, only to scratch out the name “Napoleon” so violently that he tore a hole in the manuscript when Napoleon declared himself Emperor. (You can see the…
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