The Slightest Provocation is an “Anything But” book. As I waded through it, I kept wishing I was doing anything but reading it. At one point, I was so bored I decided to take a break and scrub my bathtub. The half hour I spent doing so was more interesting, satisfying and enjoyable than any…
The early sections of The Book of True Desires set up a premise so tantalizing I actually experienced a giddy rush of anticipation. But while Betina Krahn takes readers on an interesting journey in this romantic adventure, I ultimately couldn’t help thinking that some better company would have improved the trip. In order to fund…
Those of you who have been complaining of cookie cutter romances – run out and get Hope Tarr’s Vanquished. It may be set in England during the Victorian period, but it’s very far from the usual historical romance. This is a serious and sometimes gritty book with a most unusual hero and heroine. Harry Stone…
Now that the tenth and final book has been published in Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series – one of my favorite series of connected books of all time – has been published, it seemed like the right time to take a return trip back to where it all it started. The Duke and I always comes…
The Amazon description of Step Into Darkness called the book “a Gothic romance” and its hero “an infamous thief.” That was all I needed to know to ask to review it. It didn’t take me long to discover this isn’t really a gothic romance, nor is the hero truly a thief. Normally, such dashed expectations…
Queen of Diamonds is the third book in Barbara Metzger’s House of Cards trilogy; it traces the story of the kidnapped Lady Charlotte Endicott. Charlotte was three when a man with a gun – professing to love her mother – caused a carriage accident that killed her mother and all other occupants but her. The…
I haven’t read a Susan Johnson novel, other than an anthology contribution or two, since 1999’s To Please a Lady, the sequel to my favorite Johnson book – Outlaw (1993). I was surprised to find When Someone Loves You almost completely devoid of a plot for its two engaging leads, and with no hot love…
It’s been some time now since I had a good cry over a book, but toward the end of Simply Love I had to get out several handkerchiefs. When Mary Balogh is on top of her game, she is hard to beat and she has a real winner here. In A Summer To Remember we…
Love Is Blind and so is Lady Clarissa Crambray. Or practically so. Being practically so myself, I enjoyed reading Clarissa’s story and felt an immediate empathy for the most near-sighted heroine I’ve ever read. Clarissa is in London with her horrid stepmother who is trying to get her married off this Season. She refuses to…
The latest in the Merry Widows series features Beatrice, Lady Somerfield. As a 35-year-old widow with two young daughters, she keeps quite busy chaperoning her niece and working for the Benevolent Widows Fund, a charity assisting widows of soldiers killed in the war. On the night of a masquerade ball, she dresses as Artemis and…
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