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…
I picked A Moonlit Knight because it was described as having a medieval setting. If you’ve been reading our recent ATBF on historicals, just about anything that’s not set in England during the Regency has got to be better, right? Well, not so much. The back cover of Ms. Kelley’s book says it’s a medieval…
Unquestionably, Mary Jo Putney was an early pioneer in the connected books phenomenon. You can argue whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but more than ten years past the publication of the first in the series, her Fallen Angels books pretty much remain the gold standard. Dancing on the Wind is…
After three books by this author, I’m still not sure if I like her work. Never a Lady fared better than the others and the last fifty pages, along with a beautiful ending, bumped my grade up so that this one earns a qualified recommendation. Alexandra, Madame Larchmont, is a skilled fortune teller being paraded…
Johanna Lindsey is one author I can usually enjoy if I don’t think much about all the unlikelihoods and but-what-abouts. Expecting her books to be humorous if not a bit trite, I guess you could say that I put myself in a Lindsey frame of mind and have fun riding the surface of the story….
Let’s start off with the good news: Lady Katherine’s Wild Ride does not take place in the Regency, but instead is set in Restoration England. Now for the bad: It is very melodramatic. To be fair, I’m usually not fond of over-the-top antics – well, unless they are told in a sly, tongue-in-cheek kind of…
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