The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever starts off as vintage Julia Quinn, and that is high praise indeed! I was captivated after just reading a few pages, set aside some work that really had to be done and devoured the book in one sitting. A short prologue relates the first meeting of hero and…
Lord of Scandal riveted me at the start, but went downhill all too quickly. Though it’s clear author Cornick tried hard to make her characters likable, their lack of dimension left me unable to empathize with the problems in their lives. and the over-the-top villain is of the laughing-maniacally-while-drowning-puppies variety. Each time he appeared in…
I generally find myself rolling my eyes when I read a girl-in-pants historical novel. They seem to be packed with clichés and full of overdrawn characters. So when I flipped through Wild Sweet Love and noticed how often the heroine gallivanted about in a pair of leather pants, I worried. My fears were unfounded, as…
If you’re looking for a kidnap/revenge romance, you should look into the latest in Sabrina Jeffries’ School for Heiresses series, Beware a Scot’s Revenge. It features a hero and heroine who secretly care for each other even as they exchange constant insults back and forth with time to kiss like there is no more tomorrow….
I read Passion for the Game because I really needed to review something different. My last several reads (for review and otherwise) have been complete duds, and I was ready to try almost anything that seemed novel. A Georgian historical with burning-level sensuality seemed to fit the bill. While it didn’t end up as a…
Somehow I suspect that the hero in High Plains Bride did not expect to find the woman who betrayed him fourteen years earlier showing up on his doorstep and demanding favors of him at gunpoint. Still, that is just how the book opens and the broken relationship that is healed and rekindled kept me reading…
Eloisa James writes “Ensemble” novels, focusing on a set of people and with storylines which can span several books. It is a style that either resonates with you or doesn’t. In general, while I prefer to read romances which focus primarily on the hero and heroine, I can enjoy James’s style – dependent upon the…
Sophia Nash comes to Avon from the now defunct (sob!) Signet Regency line. Her book, A Dangerous Beauty, is a Regency-set historical romance that really needs to be a lot longer than it is, which is already a substantial 384 pages). You can’t say the Earl and Countess of Twenlyne haven’t secured the title –…
Andrea Pickens, a name well-known to Traditional Regency lovers, begins a new historical series, Merlin’s Maidens, about young women trained to be spies. While I have always enjoy Pickens’ writing, The Spy Wore Silk seemed oddly dispassionate. Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Select Young Ladies is really a school for spies whose students are street urchins…
The Viscount in Her Bedroom was my first book by Gayle Callen and, after flipping through the book to get an idea of what it was about, I was hesitant about starting. But after a slow beginning, I was intrigued enough and, though I had issues with the book, it is unique in plot and…
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