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,…
The Templar’s Seduction is the first Mary Reed McCall novel I’ve read, though it is the last book in her Templar Knights series, and, rumor has it, her last book for a while. Sir Alex de Ashby is “a man bound by his own instincts for self-preservation above all else.” He was drummed out of…
I can’t begin to tell you how much I wanted to like My Wicked Pirate. After hearing so much about the old-fashioned romance feel that author Rona Sharon put into her debut effort, I went and bought it for myself. It couldn’t be all bad, I tell myself a few pages in. It has one…
What struck me first when looking at the reissue of Mary Balogh’s Web of Love is how much I prefer the new cover to the old. The old cover is Signet at their worst: lots of browns and a couple dancing in a scene which does have its counterpart in the novel, but the facial…
From the simplistic plot to its continued abuse of the English language, Red Hawk’s Woman just gets it wrong, wrong, wrong. While Red Hawk’s quest starts off in an interesting enough fashion, the hodgepodge of Native American mythology and overwrought New Age-y spiritualism quickly became too saccharine for this reader to handle. Red Hawk was…
The Devil’s Temptation is the second book in a trilogy that follows Sins of Midnight in the Daventry sisters series. The focus is on middle daughter Maura. I didn’t read the first book in the series, which caused some confusion because of an on-going sub-plot involving the heroine’s mother. Elise Marchand, Maura’s mother, was an…
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