While When We Meet Again is a perfectly pleasant, perfectly readable historical romance, it’s also one that may play slightly better for readers who – unlike me – aren’t yet Effington-d out. To be honest, I hadn’t realized how tired I was of the Effington family and their circle until I began this book and,…
Connie Brockway brings her Rose Hunters trilogy to a close with My Surrender. Readers grumbling about the dearth of serious historical romances – grumble no more. This is an intense and very satisfying book. Charlotte Nash is the last of the sisters whose father gave his life in a French prison. Charlotte acts as companion…
I’m really sorry I’m not giving Beyond Temptation a better grade. The author, Mary Reed McCall, wrote a wonderful segment for a recent ATBF column. Also, she took a chance on an unusual conflict of honor between the hero and heroine. Unfortunately, that conflict didn’t work for me; it just kept me from getting engaged…
I’m going to say it right up front. Ms. Balogh’s books have always been hit or miss for me, with a few more misses than hits in the mix. So what prompted my request to review Simply Unforgettable? Can I tell you a secret? A colleague, who generally loves most of this author’s work, didn’t…
In this month’s Pandora we look a Lord of the Isles, a Medieval Scottish romance. Hector Maclean takes one look at Lady Mariota Macleod and falls like a ton of bricks. He offers for her on the spot, but Mariota’s father is a superstitious man who insists that his older daughter, Cristina, marry before any…
Alexander Scarston, the Earl of Selbourne, is a – wait for it – Regency Earl Spy. Unfortunately, he is on forced leave, for his superiors are afraid that Alex’s cover in France has been blown. He is chafing at the bit, for he knows Something Big is in the works and he has been passed…
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Jane Feather’s books for years. I have not once, but twice now given up on her only to be lured back by great buzz about one of her books. The last time this happened was with The Widow’s Kiss, which I loved, but then she lost me again two…
Readers in recent years have complained that the rich, interesting historicals of the past are vanishing. As a reader, I certainly have found myself buying fewer books overall as the meaty historicals I loved started to be replaced by and large with homogenized wallpaper comedies. Fortunately, there are still some good and interesting historicals out…
Mrs. Caroline Fordyce is a young widow living with her two aunts, Milly and Emma, at 22 Corley Street. Having survived a Great Scandal three years ago, Mrs. Fordyce now makes a comfortable living as a writer of sensation novels serialized in weekly installments of the Flying Intelligencer, one of Victorian London’s popular newspapers. Her…
Okay, so it’s not exactly run-of-the-mill to have a hero who’s a knowledgeable and enthusiastic collector of erotic engravings or a heroine who is herself a professional and highly skilled engraver. But, sadly, with those notable exceptions aside, virtually everything about Lord of Sin is undeniably familiar. You’ve got the feisty heroine who keeps secrets…
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