A Passion For Him is the sequel to Passion for the Game. I haven’t read the first book in this series, but after reading this installment, I’ll be sure to pick it up. Amelia Benbridge is courting a longtime friend, the Earl of Ware, and one of London’s most eligible bachelors. She knows that it…
Sometimes when I’m reading a book I don’t like very much, I amuse myself by thinking of a new title for it – one more suited to its contents. In the case of The Wayward Debutante, it was a simple matter of adding a few words; I started thinking of it as “The Wayward Debutante…and…
What makes a good romance? In my opinion, it must have plenty of angst and emotion. If it stays on my mind after I read it, then I know the author created something special. And it must be about characters I can admire or at least come to admire. Is it perfect? Do the characters…
Shadows of the Night starts out as one kind of book and ends as something far different. Unfortunately, the result is an unhappy hybrid. The first third of the book is promising. The author takes a couple we’ve all met before – the perfect aristocrat undertaking a cold-blooded marriage with a well-bred young society maiden…
Well, it doesn’t suck. Let’s call this one yet another in the series of Susan Johnson-Lite historicals featuring a jaded and daring aristocrat infamous for his legendary sexual escapades (not to even mention his girth) and an experienced woman only slightly less jaded and experienced. As in the many previously published Johnson-Lites, they come together…
You know, these tortured premises for European Historicals that are part of a series are getting ever more…well, tortured. Consider this one: A self-made man with a distaste for lazy, foppish aristocrats leaves a will decreeing that the first of the young women in his family to marry a duke will inherit his large fortune….
When I picked A Compromised Lady by Elizabeth Rolls to review, I was attracted by the title. I tend to like books about heroines other than virgins with unblemished reputations. In that respect, this book did not disappoint me. The story takes a heroine with a difficult past, with nothing glossed over, and gives her…
There are DIK books and then there are the books you wrap in Kevlar, place inside a waterproof lock box, and keep by your side at all times. The Winter Rose is only the second novel to earn that coveted honor from me. Enthralling, magical, emotional and downright funny are the first words that spring…
I have had good results with Harlequin’s mail-order historicals (they release two per month, in addition to the four historicals available in stores), so I was happy to give Carol Townend’s latest novel a try, in spite of my determination to steer clear of books with “Rogue” and other such overused words in their titles….
I love Regency historicals and I don’t care about the bad rap they get. When done well, Regency historicals are full of the life, energy and romance of the period. Unfortunately, The Night Before the Wedding is one of those Regency historicals that contribute to the bad rep. Hundreds of years ago, a curse was…
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