This is a SuperRegency from Signet, which means it has a greater page count and more sensuality than your basic Regency, both of which Elena Greene puts to good use in Lady Dearing’s Masquerade. The widowed Olivia, Lady Dearing, survived ten hellish years with her husband and now that her year of mourning is over,…
This book gave me a terrible feeling: that I’ve become completely jaded as a romance reader. The Unwilling Bride is a Medieval – one of my favorite subgenres – and it’s about two people betrothed as children, but separated ever since, finally marrying – a plot I really enjoy. So why did this book almost…
It is obvious that Rachel Bailey loves her work as a civil engineer in Victorian England. She is ostracized by most social circles and must struggle in obscurity in Ireland with her work turned in under the name of a male engineer in her firm. Even so, Rachel, a shareholder in her father’s firm of…
Marcus Marsden, the Earl of Westcliff, has been a supporting character in several of Lisa Kleypas’ previous novels. He finally meets his match and gets his own love story in this second entry of the Wallflower series. The nouveau-riche Bowmans, manufacturers of scents and soaps, have been unable to break into the very stuffy New…
I am a fan of Nicole Jordan’s books but seem to hit or miss with the novels in her Guardians series. After being disappointed in the first novel and loving the second, I looked forward to Wicked Fantasy. It didn’t live up to my expectations. Antonia was 17 when she met Deverill after he joined…
Readers who are getting tired of the ubiquitous history lite Regency-set historical romance will want to read Deeanne Gist’s A Bride Most Begrudging. It’s set in the Virginia Colony in 1643 and tells the tale of a gently born woman kidnapped to be sold to a colonist as his wife In true feisty heroine fashion,…
I’m a history geek – I’ll admit it. I can be jerked out of a story by anachronisms that a non-geek would not even notice. But I get no respect from my nearest and dearest. I read The Wedding Night of an English Rogue while my daughter watched television and complained that Heath Boscastle rode…
Long separations, an immature self-sacrificing heroine, and the big misunderstanding are all plot elements I try to avoid when reading romance. And then there is the register somewhere in my head that counts the number of times I roll my eyes in frustration as I read a particular book, gradually reducing the grade as the…
In the middle of Too Hot to Handle I had a startling revelation. Though she has a reputation (a deserved one) as one of romance’s steamier mainstream authors, Cheryl Holt really writes just like Barbara Cartland. Only with sex. Think I’m exaggerating? In this book, a virtuous young woman flees an arranged marriage and lands…
Still in My Heart wraps up Kathryn Smith’s Ryland Brothers series. I’ve read two of the three preceding books with drastically different degrees of enjoyment, and so was a tad bit leery of this one, but it has as its theme one I particularly enjoy: Second Chance at Love. I am pleased to say that…
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