Sometimes I’m just in the mood for a good tearjerker – a romance that is touching and emotional and shows how powerfully love can change someone’s life. Redemption is that kind of book. The plot has its rough spots, but the romance is ultimately very sweet and well worth the time spent reading. Since the…
Jane Feather is a longtime favorite of mine. Even when her books are not complete hits (Almost Innocent and the Duncan Sisters trilogy, there’s something about the strength of her writing that gets me every time. When she is on her game, she skillfully intertwines historical fact, intrigue, and romance in a way that is…
I liked it! I really liked it! Though I’m not quite ready to declare that Susan Johnson is back – it will take more than one good book to wipe away the memory of the past few years – When You Love Someone is a compulsively readable historical romance that did bring to mind the…
The title of The Lady Killer can be taken literally: the novel tells the story of Nicole Beauvoire, an assassin code named Scorpion and working in France for the English. Nicole has thus far killed nine men. She is very good at what she does, though she knows she is doomed. Daniel McCurren has been…
Like many new writers, Diane Gaston suffered years of rejection before Harlequin’s Mills & Boon published her first novel, The Mysterious Miss M, for the U.K. market in 2004. What is remarkable about that is Gaston isn’t a British romance writer; she’s an American living in Virginia (who now writes under the name Diane Perkins…
I’ve not read the first two books in this series, but I applaud Jade Lee for writing Desperate Tigress, a book far removed from the typical romantic ideal and setting. The book’s unique quality alone makes it worth reading, and I plan to pick up the series’ earlier titles to make this a more complete…
It says a great deal about my reading year that Two Little Lies is the best romance novel I’ve read in 2005, and it’s a 2006 release. No matter what its official publication date is, this is still a very good read containing the elements too often missing in the genre these days. Viviana Alessandri…
I discovered Margo Maguire last year when I read her two Victorian-set historicals. I enjoyed them enough to search for her backlist, but she wrote for Harlequin, which has notoriously low print runs, and so have had difficulty finding them. The Bride Hunt, a very good Beauty and the Beast story, is her first book…
There is so much . . .well, bad writing out there that it’s hard not to appreciate the sheer craft of Miranda Jarrett’s prose. Unfortunately, this talented author lends her skills here to telling a story without a hint of nuance or a shade of grey. This, fellow readers, is one simplistic – and dare…
Though An Unlikely Governess is a satisfying enough gothic-tinged romance, the truth is that it’s a lot more satisfying before the reader is subjected to incredibly annoying TSTL behavior by the heroine in the book’s final pages. As a word of warning, if you’re as creeped out as I am by extremely desperate heroines –…
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