I’ve always enjoyed Laura Lee Guhrke’s writing although I was disappointed with her last, She’s No Princess. However, I am happy to say that And Then He Kissed Her is her best book yet. Emmaline Dove, 30-year-old spinster, has been secretary to Harry, Viscount Marlowe for the past five years. Marlowe is a very successful…
When I first laid eyes on The Roman’s Virgin Mistress, I thought surely the folks at Harlequin Presents had played some kind of practical joke on the Harlequin Historicals line. What’s next? Banging the Baron? Still, I’ve read enough romance to know that the covers and titles are often vastly inferior to the contents of…
Liz Carlyle begins her new trilogy with Never Lie to a Lady, a somewhat uneven book in terms of momentum, but one that I ultimately enjoyed due to the interesting characters – both old and new. Xanthia Neville and her brother Kieran, the new Baron Rothewell, have recently arrived in London from the West Indies…
Sin Incarnate by Isobel Carr is a typical example of the misleading packaging peddled by romance publishing houses with the goal, one assumes, to attract more readers. The title is so bland as to contain no valid information about the book whatsoever (Oooh, there must be a man in it! And sex!) and winds up being…
Lately, a lot of readers, myself included, have lamented the lack of variety in historical romance. Luckily, we have writers like Constance O’Banyon to shake things up. Lord of the Nile, set in ancient Egypt against the turmoil that made Cleopatra queen, is a smooth, solid, old-fashioned story, well told and with a unique setting…
I admire any author these days who writes an American Historical. They are few and far between. Needless to say I tucked right into Heart’s Delight with much enthusiasm and wasn’t too disappointed. My only regret is that I could have had something very special in my hands if not for the lack of pages….
Sally MacKenzie’s The Naked Earl has a nice cover. When I looked at it approvingly, opened the novel and began to read, I had no idea this was to be the last moment I unconditionally enjoyed the book. My problems started in the novel’s very first scene, and in the end I had to take…
From the very first page of Silk Dreams, it is obvious that Diana Groe is a very talented storyteller. With that said, however, I never really got as caught up as I should have been in the romance of this book due to the author’s extensive focus on the details of a very complex intrigue…
How To Engage An Earl started out promising, yet ended up sorely lacking. The plot had potential, but the details of the story did not meet the expectations I had as the book got underway. Anne Royle is the second of triplet sisters who might possibly be the illegitimate daughters of Prince Edward. Anne plans…
If you’re looking for something different in historical romance, Jade Lee’s Tempted Tigress is certainly that. Set during the Boxer movement at the very end of the Qing Dynasty, the story features the romance between a white drug runner and the Emperor’s Enforcer. It is a gritty story that does not gloss over the turbulent,…
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