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…
The 17th century is a fascinating time and it’s rather sad that more novels aren’t set in the period. In her debut novel, Anne O’Brien carries readers back to Restoration England, but instead of focusing on Charles II’s glittering Court, she shows readers how the political aftermath of the Civil War and Interregnum affected the…
With over forty novels published, I expected smooth, experienced writing from Johanna Lindsey. A Marriage Most Scandalous has great writing but also many flaws and a hero and heroine who increasingly are not worthy of any admiration or respect. After Sebastian Townsend sleeps with a woman who turns out to be the wife of his…
It’s not a happy thing when a bad book happens to a good writer. Sadly, there’s nothing I can find to like about this book except the fact that the prose – as always with Ms. London – is smooth and readable. And, even though her characterizations are skillfully done, the author’s protagonists are so…
Looking for a medieval romance with historical accuracy and characters who belong in their time? Joan Wolf delivers in satisfying fashion with To the Castle. Eleanor de Bonevile, daughter to the Earl of Lincoln, was raised in a convent and is set to take her vows when she turns eighteen in six month’s time. When…
Whoa! Classified as European Historical Romance, Passion should come with a warning label reading “Explicit Sexual Scenes.” Until I checked the book’s sub-category, I was convinced I had mistakenly picked up a book of Erotica. The sexual scenes, which are well underway by page ten, are hard and heavy, with verbiage many would consider objectionable….
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