Destiny is set in 875AD – and the Vikings hold most of eastern England. When the story begins Elena, a captive of the Viking leader Kraka, has just escaped and is found while on the run by Berg, an East Anglian warrior now exiled from his lands. Elena then saves Berg in a skirmish with…
The back blurb of Jack of Clubs mentions a man opening a gaming house to find his sister who vanished years ago. And how, scratching my head, is that supposed to help? I have no idea, but this is Barbara Metzger, who I can count on for great humorous writing, and so I read on….
If I’m engaged in a book, really, really engaged in it, I’ll read for hours and stay up late to finish it. If I’m moderately engaged in a book, I’ll read for some time, then lay it down but look forward to reading it again. During the time I was reading Countess Confidential, I read…
Let me begin by stating that Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, wins the award in my book for most anticipated future hero. As I finished reading It Happened One Autumn, I was stunned to discover that extreme bad boy Sebastian would be featured as the hero in its sequel and I must admit that I was…
It’s been entirely too long since I started a book and felt compelled to finish it in one sitting, but, happily, that is just what I did with Louise Allen’s debut novel. Something about her prose flows so nicely that I just couldn’t bring myself to leave the story until I’d gotten to the very…
I used to be a great fan of Stephanie Laurens and her Cynster family series. But it has been almost four years since I read a Stephanie Laurens novel. I am one of those who felt that her writing had become derivative, just a rehashing of the same characters and plot and I tired of…
Liz Carlyle is, undoubtedly, one of the very best authors today of historical romance who, even when she’s not quite at the top of her game, writes consistently good – and sometimes great – novels. So, even though Three Little Secrets isn’t among the author’s best, it is still vastly superior to the majority of…
Sally Mackenzie is gradually undressing the peerage. First we had The Naked Duke, now The Naked Marquis and next year we’ll have The Naked Earl. If this title trend continues, we may end up with The Naked, Untitled But Wealthy Man Of Property. Charles Dalrymple, the younger son of a marquis, went into the army,…
I keep picking up western romances, hoping I’ll find one as good as those I used to read in the nineties. Since virtually all of them I’ve read in the last five years are terrible, I’m not sure if my behavior is optimistic, or just stupid. Sadly, Luck of the Draw is yet another of…
Sometimes I’m just in the mood to read a completely over-the-top romance. Those are the times when I’m looking for characters who are larger than life and have all kinds of vivid adventures. Pamela Clare’s latest novel, the first in a new series, has its rough spots, but her tale of romance set during the…
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