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…
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?”…
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…
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…
Castle of the Wolf certainly delivers a refreshingly different setting, but the characters and the story have a regrettably familiar feel. Still, for readers craving a story not set in Regency England, this book might well hit the spot. The plot involves Cissy Fussell, a young woman destined to be a poor relation living on…
In her latest novel, Naomi Bellis takes many of the good parts of the old Gothic romances, including an eerie mood and deep dark secrets, and turns them into a thrilling romance. Gone, though, is the passive heroine and her overbearing lover of old while the author’s stronger and more complex leads do a wonderful…
This is the first Sari Robins book I’ve read. She’s one of those authors that I always look at in the bookstores, thanks in no small part to her wonderful covers. This one is no different, with the appropriately red-haired heroine, wearing a very mischievous expression, disrobing the hero, displaying his lovely broad back. Unfortunately,…
Reading this romance wasn’t a hardship, but in the end I never felt it was anything special or memorable. The notorious Madame Aphrodite, owner of one of London’s most infamous brothels, hires Sebastian Thorne to track down an enemy who stole her three daughters away when they were just little girls. (This is the third…
Bedding the Heiress is a cliché-ridden mess. Here is the synopsis: Feisty heroine Angry hero Chick-in-pants housebreaker Whore! Was that a maidenhead? Special license That tells you everything you need to know, doesn’t it? You can all connect those dots, I’m sure. What, I have to write more? Okay, fine, if you insist… The book…
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