In the Harlequin Historical line, Cheryl St. John is an auto-buy for me. I have read all of her books and have enjoyed them very much. She is one of the best ever at depicting wounded heroes (and heroines) and His Secondhand Wife shows just how good she can be. Noah Cutter seldom sets foot…
Some Enchanted Evening, released in hardcover last year, was recently released as a mass market paperback. It is the first book in a series, although there are connections to characters from books in at least one earlier series. Princess Clarice (she is almost never referred to without her title) is the middle of three exiled…
It took me a long time to finish Hungry Tigress – I simpy could not get interested in it at all. Although it had an exciting beginning, the middle was slow and talky, and the ending engaged my ick factor to a very high degree. I did not care for the characters at all…this book…
If you are looking for some lighthearted, laugh-out-loud summer reading that will also fill your need for a tender romance, look no further. Julia Quinn’s latest installment of the Bridgerton series is full of subtle humor, witty dialogue, and an undeniable chemistry between the leads. Although many of the story’s scenarios are usual fare for…
Anne Gracie burst upon the romance scene in 2001 with two stellar books, Tallie’s Knight and The Gallant Waif. It has been three long years since she has had a new novel published, but she is back with The Perfect Rake, the first book in a new series about the Merridew sisters. After their parents…
Obviously I’m a sucker for marriage-in-trouble books. Last year, I gave a very controversial B+ grade to Your Wicked Ways by Eloisa James, a book about how a rather unsympathetic estranged married couple fell in love again. This book, The Marriage Bed by Laura Lee Guhrke, has a similar plot, but due to its different…
Ellie Brans-Hill and Jack Rigg met when he was expelled from Oxford at 17 and sent to board with and be tutored by Ellie’s vicar father. Ellie had a huge crush on Jack that manifested itself in practical jokes, which Jack was kind enough to tolerate. Fifteen years later, Ellie is now a paid companion/chaperone…
The latest entry in Gaelen Foley’s Knight Miscellany series features the Bad Boy of the family: Lord Alec Knight. Taking a man who has a serious gambling problem, who behaved very badly and broke the heart of the heroine in Foley’s last book (Devil Takes a Bride), who stayed financially solvent by becoming a gigolo,…
While The Book of the Seven Delights is a charming and enjoyable romance, it’s also a book with a supremely entertaining first half and a second that is far less so. Add in the less than combustible (and almost completely off-stage) love scenes along with the inevitable comparisons to Loretta Chase’s Mr. Impossible, and Betina…
Historical purists should run a mile, but others looking for a quick, fun, altogether charming romance could do far worse than checking out An Unexpected Pleasure. To be honest, Candace Camp is an uneven writer for me, sometimes striking the right notes and sometimes not coming even close. Still, even though I’m the first to…
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