I thought I was never going to finish this book. I picked it up because I just can’t resist a Revolutionary War story, though I probably should have been warned by the cheesy tag line: Midnight Blue… was the color of desire. As the days stretched into weeks, I crawled through the book at a…
I’m a sucker for tortured heroes and heroines, as well as rich, even intense, historicals, so Mary Reed McCall’s latest novel was a must-read for me. Her tale of love and healing set against the violent dissolution of the Templars is absolutely beautiful. There were a few minor irritants that kept it from being a…
A gothic tale set in Regency England? I have not seen that plotline before, and it intrigued me enough to pick up Anne Mallory’s The Viscount’s Wicked Ways. Shadows cloak an imposing estate. Menacing birds swoop overhead. Grotesque carvings adorn entry doors. Lightning and thunder punctuate the air. These sights and sounds greet Patience Harrington…
The good news is that Laura Lee Guhrke’s new book is a satisfying one. The… well, less good news is that the heroine is a 22 year-old whose main motivation is to choose her own husband, damn it! Whether it was the Avon Powers That Be or Ms. Guhrke’s choice herself, I have to admit…
Tracy Anne Warren’s The Husband Trap was a light and charming book. Its sequel, The Wife Trap is light as well, but the charm isn’t there. The heroine is the spoiled sister from The Husband Trap, and in my review of that book, I said she’d have to undergo a lot of rehabilitation in order…
Lucy Blue has gotten some good buzz on the our message boards and I’m happy to find that buzz warranted, for The Devil’s Knight is an exciting, great read. Rebel brigands attack the partially finished castle belonging to Tristan, a Norman nobleman, and because the peasants inside help them, they succeed in breaching the defenses….
The long-awaited sequel to Duke of Sin is here, and it was worth the wait. In Paris, Lady Olivia Shea had a whirlwind courtship before wedding Lord Edmund Carlisle. He deserted her on the wedding night – pre-consummation – and absconded with most of her money. Heartbroken, but even more spitting mad, she vows to…
Okay. I’ll admit it. When I read the back cover blurb on my ARC and discovered that I had to read a book about some nobleman forced to take his dead great-uncle’s bastard children and launch them into society, I thought I was going to be in for something trite and downright painful. Thank goodness…
I pride myself on keeping pretty up to date on what’s forthcoming in all the genres I like to read, yet somehow I missed a new series by a favorite author. Missing new books by an author you like is a very bad thing. But once you discover the books, well, that’s like found money….
It’s a bad thing when a good book derails. It’s especially bad when a pleasantly retro romance with a unique setting doesn’t merely go off track, but instead careens wildly between bratty behavior by the previously forthright heroine, an otherwise likable hero turning into a Neanderthal, and some truly excruciatingly sugary scenes featuring the adorable…
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