Before starting I should come clean and say that I have an enormous affection for Geralyn Dawson’s books. The Bad Luck Wedding Cake was one of the first romance novels I read and I’ve enjoyed checking up on the McBride family featured in so many of her books ever since. That being said, while I…
Along with many others in the romance community, I anxiously awaited the last installment of Adele Ashworth’s Duke’s Trilogy. Both of the earlier books in this series garnered B+ grades for me personally. Knowing that Colin’s book was yet to come meant things could only get better – or so I thought. Probably failing in…
I wanted to like The Art of Seduction. I really, really did. I mean, it’s Paris, it’s 1889, and it’s burning. This would normally be right up my alley. Sadly, I thought the heroine came a bit too close TSTL and truly began to believe the hero was psychotic by the time I’d slogged two-thirds…
For a lot of us, Leslie LaFoy consistently delivers pleasurable books. And the good news is that, even though it’s not without flaws, The Duke’s Proposal is another in her string of well-written European Historical Romances. The last in her trilogy of books featuring the illegitimate daughters of a duke, this one tells the story…
I wanted to do something special for my 50th review for AAR. After reading Susan Carroll’s magnificent Winterbourne (originally published in 1987), I knew this was that something. The Medieval Romance is one of my favorite sub-genres, and they are few and far between. Good ones are hard to find…great ones even more rare. Susan…
India is often largely hinted at in Regency-era romances but hardly ever explored. I was extremely excited to hear that Gaelen Foley would be tackling this exciting land. Sadly that was the section of the book that worked the least. Overall, though, I was very pleased with the first book in her new trilogy focusing…
This final installment in the Holt Sister trilogy offers some interesting resolutions, but more frustrations. Sabrina Fairleigh is the daughter of a country vicar in love with her father’s curate, the handsome Geoffrey Gillray. When he speaks of being a missionary in Africa, she daydreams of marrying and accompanying him. Geoffrey leaves to visit his…
In The Taste of Innocence, Stephanie Laurens manages to pull off a triple play of plot points that did not work at all for me. First, this is beyond Regency-lite; much of the book had a very contemporary feel to it. Second, this is the first time in a while for me that the hero…
This was supposed to be a book review, not an existential crisis. But about halfway in, I found myself asking probing questions like: “When will I stop choosing books just because their titles are funny?” “Why do I review books anyway?” “Why was this written in the first place?” “Why did someone publish this…in 2007?”…
Loretta Chase finishes up her Carsington Brothers series with the youngest brother, Darius. Although Darius is not my favorite brother in the series, Not Quite a Lady has a really terrific heroine in Lady Charlotte Hayward. At sixteen, Charlotte was seduced by a rake who was subsequently killed in a duel. She gave birth in…
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