Julianne MacLean holds the prize as author of the only book I have ever reread almost as soon as I finished it. An Affair Most Wicked clicked on all of the right levels for me, but sadly set my sights high for her future books. Love According to Lily pales by comparison and just manages…
There is just something about a sturdy ship, the salt air, and a privateer that sparks the romantic imagination. In LeClaire’s debut novel, her love of the sea and its stories shines through. Still, even though her tale of high adventure and romance is a homage to the pirate romances of old, there is an…
In the past I have lamented what I see as a disturbing sort of sameness in recent historical romance releases. Lately I have been craving something a little less light and fluffy, a little more dark or unusual. In Helen Kirkman’s latest romance, I think I have found it. Though parts of the middle of…
From the blurb on the back of the ACR of The Devil’s Necklace, I was expecting the story of a feisty beauty and her pirate captor. Happily, it turned out to be much better than the blurb, and I ended up enjoying this book quite a bit. The Devil’s Necklace is the second book in…
Having written traditional Regencies and one Super Regency, Amanda McCabe makes a solid debut in her first full length Regency historical, Lady Midnight. Katerina Bruni, the daughter of the most famous courtesan in Venice, is at a party on a yacht with her potential first protector, her mother, and her mother’s protector when a sudden…
Zebra is doing a great job with their covers lately. I’ve actually bought a few because the tone, color, and model poses caught my eye. We all know you can’t judge a book by its cover. The cover for The Seduction of Sarah is its best attribute. As the widowed Mrs. Sarah Wellsley enjoys her…
In the sequel to The Sherbrooke Twins, which in itself is a sequel to Coulter’s lengthy Sherbrooke series, begun in 1992 with The Sherbrooke Bride, Jason Sherbrooke returns home after five years of self-imposed exile to face the family he feels he betrayed after being seduced by a woman who was really out to destroy…
With What a Woman Needs, Zebra Debut brings out yet another promising new author. Caroline Linden’s Regency-set historical features unusual characters and a story that will have readers flying through the pages. There are a few rough spots that may remind one that this is a debut novel, but these are certainly outweighed by the…
Robyn DeHart is a debut author for Avon. It continually amazes me what is deemed good enough to publish. Claudia Prattley is the downtrodden daughter of Viscount Kennington, who has belittled her all of her life. With Claudia having reached the advanced age of 27, her father thinks it long past time she should be…
It has always seemed to me that the word count for Jo Goodman’s books is higher than for other Zebra authors – or that her editor exercises less control with her red pen. Sometimes it can weigh the book down – at other times it makes for a very interesting, although generally angst filled, long…
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