Lord of Seduction is a Medieval with a childhood friends storyline and a road trip thrown in for good measure. Each of those worked in the book’s favor, but while I was predisposed to enjoy it, it left me wanting and in the end I wish I’d liked it more. Six-year-old Lady Tanon Risande, goddaughter…
For Love of a Pirate features a hero who always does the correct thing and a heroine who has had a very unconventional upbringing. It’s not a wild romp, instead it’s a quiet character-driven romance that I found to be very charming. Constantine Wylde, Lord Wylde, is a London gentleman and paragon of the ton….
I enjoyed Mary Balogh’s last reissued book, The Secret Pearl. However, The Gilded Web, originally published in 1989, falls well short of the high standard set by that one. Alexandra Purnell, in search of a quiet moment outside the crowded ballroom, finds herself kidnapped and tied to a stranger’s bed. The bed belongs to Edmund,…
For reasons having more to do with time rather than with my level of interest in her books, I’d never before read Anne Gracie. My reaction to my first book by the author is a bit of a mixed bag. To put it bluntly, my biggest problem is that The Perfect Kiss seems like an…
Unquestionably, Melody Thomas is the best of Avon’s newer writers and she continues her winning streak in her latest release. This, book, though, isn’t without its challenges. During the first fifty pages or so, I was afraid that Wild and Wicked in Scotland was going to be one of those frustrating mistaken identity books in…
There has been a lot of talk this year about the “Avonization” of romance novels. When people say that, the first author who usually comes to mind, for me, is Stephanie Laurens. Since To Distraction is her 20th book for Avon, perhaps it’s no wonder that for me they’ve become almost synonymous…but no longer in…
I look forward to each new book by Lorraine Heath, as several of her Texas-set historicals are on my keeper shelf. Unfortunately in A Duke of Her Own, Heath fell short for me with a book that, while enjoyable, was completely predictable – and a plot that has been used too often before. In fact,…
I haven’t read either of the earlier two books in the Lost Princess series, and unfortunately, this last one doesn’t make me inclined to do so. Sorcha is the eldest of the “lost princesses” of Beaumontagne. After a revolt, she and her young sisters were separated and hidden away, their whereabouts unknown to even their…
I enjoyed Zoe Archer’s first book, Lady X’s Cowboy. The hero and heroine of that book were not your usual couple – she was a Victorian peeress/entrepreneur and he was an American cowboy. Archer’s latest book, Love in a Bottle features another odd couple – she is a botanist and he is a mountebank. Ian…
Autumn in Scotland is a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, Ranney’s usual sure hand is at play in her creation of complex characters and stirring emotions. On the other hand, these characters are done a disservice by a couple of inexplicable and extraneous plotlines. Charlotte dutifully married an impecunious Scottish nobleman,…
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