At about 35,000 words, Love’s Golden Embrace by Charlene Leonard is a rather short story in which you won’t find much detail in either setting or characterization. However, the feeling of nostalgia, comfort and my affection for both leads (especially for hero Luke) make Love’s Golden Embrace a pleasant, quick read. In 1829 the recent…
I am torn about this book and the grade it should receive. I really liked this book. And I really disliked this book. Unfortunately, I disliked it for a good hundred pages, and, if I wasn’t reviewing the book, I wouldn’t have bothered reading far enough to get to the good stuff. Lady Amelia Plume,…
Good-hearted, virtuous but poor heroine? Check. Roguish man of good family in search of a purpose for his life? Check. Roguish but somehow charming villagers and/or servants? Check. Well, many of the usual Regency romanceland features are certainly present here, together with a plot that revolves around smuggling (as opposed to spying – the other…
I know this is romance sacrilege, but when I read Lord of Scoundrels about ten years ago, I traded it back to the ubs. I don’t remember that I hated it, just that I didn’t particularly want to keep it. This was before I started reviewing romances, or even interacting with other readers online, for…
This is a deliciously charming Victorian-era historical, appealing in both storyline and writing style. Upon her father’s death, Juliana Holcott and her mother became poor relations dependent upon the kindness of distant relatives who grudgingly provided them with housing at Lynchwood Hall in order to preserve the family image. Although Juliana’s aunt and uncle look…
With her first book, The Runaway Duke, Julie Ann Long showed she could take an oft-told story and make it her own. She does it again with Beauty and the Spy, the first in a new trilogy. Yes, Kit Whitelaw, Viscount Grantham the hero of this book is yet another Regency era spy, but don’t…
The newest entry in Jo Beverley’s Company of Rogues series features The Missing Rogue, Simon St. Bride who, when mentioned at all in previous books, has simply been “in Canada.” In The Rogue’s Return we finally learn what Simon has been doing all this time. While Simon’s family are traditional homebodies, he always wanted adventure,…
In Deadly Kisses Brenda Joyce continues the saga of the investigating career of socialite Francesca Cahill. Francesca is engaged to Calder Hart at the beginning of the book, but they are both immediately plunged into a murder involving his former mistress which threatens their lives and love. Calder had agreed to let his ex-mistress, Daisy…
Lady X’s Cowboy is a fish out of water story about an American cowboy in Victorian London. It has its charms, as well as its problems. Olivia, Lady Xavier was left a brewery, among other enterprises, by her late husband, a baronet who bought his title. Restless, she read and did research and when her…
Writing of imaginary royals in a Regency setting is a tricky thing. Because their country is made-up, the author has the freedom to do just about anything with the characters. But when that made-up country is set in a real historical period amidst countries that did and do exist, then the possibility for ridiculousness increases…
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