From London with Love is a High Concept novel: Charlie’s Angels in Regency England. And while there are some slight differences – the Bosley character is the one named “Charlie” and the mysterious never-seen-string-puller Charlie is now the mysterious never-seen-string-puller “Lady M.” – the story proved to be just as inane and just as eye-roll…
One Night with a Spy is part of the Royal Four series and centers on Julia Barrowby, whose husband was known as The Fox. Yes, this is one of those books where the characters belong to arcane spy groups with animal names. Unbeknownst to the other members of the Four, Julia acted as the Fox…
The Rogue Report is a newsletter, delivered twice a month to unmarried women of the ton. Within its pages are detailed exposés of various eligible gentlemen: their gaming debts, their mistresses, their drunken exploits, their scandalous secrets. Young women do well to follow its news carefully; to ignore it is to risk a life of…
Scottish romances are one of my guilty pleasures. Though most I’ve read contain truly inaccurate views of history, there is just something about the place that draws me anyway. Though this novel has some significant weaknesses, the author does a wonderful job of conjuring up a magical setting, though the novel is also at times…
Margaret MacDonald is two weeks away from her wedding day in Kathleen Givens’ On A Highland Shore when she finds her betrothed in bed with her best friend. Heartbroken, she swears she will not marry Lachlan, but he is cousin to King Alexander and her family needs the alliance her marriage will bring. Her father…
When your husband dies, leaving you responsible for dear old seriously ill dad and your roguish but lovable servants – when your husband dies and leaves you without funds and at the mercy of the male relative come to claim the estate, what’s a virgin widow (come on, this is an Avon historical after all)…
No matter how deliciously erotic the love scenes might be, the simple truth is that they’re not-so-erotic when the characters who feature in them are brats. Make that spoiled, immature brats. The author’s style is so appealing, quite frankly, that writing this review isn’t a pleasure. But, regretfully, hero, Marcus, Lord Eldridge, and Elizabeth, Lady…
The medieval romance is such an endangered species that it needs all the advocates it can get. For that reason alone, I wish I could recommend Lady’s Choice. But what the subgenre really needs is good medievals, not merely competent, middling ones like this. On her sister Adela’s wedding day, Sorcha Macleod eagerly waits to…
This is the final of Kleypas’ Wallflower series, and while it wasn’t as strong as Devil In Winter, Daisy and Matthew are an engaging couple. I enjoyed the time I spent with them. American Daisy Bowman is the last of the “Wallflowers”, a group of four women: Daisy and her sister Lillian, and their friends…
I can count on one hand the number of romance novels that have ever moved me to tears. Lorraine Heath’s classic Always to Remember sits at the top of that elite list, head and shoulders above the rest. In the ten years since its initial publication, it has only gained power, as its themes seem…
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