The Lady Lies, Samantha Saxon’s debut novel (The Lady Killer follows in December), suffers from too many ingredients in the recipe. There is a really good story in here waiting to burst free but too many side plots and characters weigh it down. At the age of ten, Aidan Duhearst learns from the Duke of…
There’s a lot of promise in Anne Mallory’s writing. It is, however, a promise as yet unfulfilled. The second novel by the author and former Golden Heart finalist, Daring the Duke is a largely formulaic tale of yet another anonymous female thief and the nobleman – one of those aristocratic law-enforcement types found only in…
As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa! That novelty ditty kept running though my head the entire time I read this book. And honestly, if I hadn’t signed up to review Only for a Knight, I’d have stopped reading it about two chapters in. After an absence of a decade, Robbie…
Okay, I’m telling myself that I must not rant about annoying pretentious heroines, but after reading A Perfect Hero I certainly want to. Little can affect my reading enjoyment more than an immature, self-centered, demanding heroine. Unfortunately Lady Julianna Sterling falls into this category and possesses such limited communication skills that much of her conversing…
Lovers of dark and emotional romance, take note: there is a new author to check out! The Lily Brand, Sandra Schwab’s debut novel, is an historical romance set just after the Napoleonic Wars. As I read the overwhelmingly dark opening of this novel, I was taken aback by the relentless evil in this story, but…
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…
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