Jillian Hunter hasn’t had a book published for almost three years. I usually like her humorous writing and was pleased to learn that she has a new trilogy which will be published in three consecutive months, beginning with this book, The Seduction of an English Scoundrel. What do you do when your parents insist that…
Something Like Love is a lighthearted and humorous look at the residents and town of Henry Adams, Kansas in the late 1880s. Beverly Jenkins provides us with two engaging leads – Olivia Sterling, a proper, self-employed woman, and Neil July, a train robber. Olivia and Neil find immense enjoyment in each other’s company and, of…
It seems like there are fewer and fewer good medievals, so I opened Return of the Warrior with fingers crossed. Although it wasn’t exactly original, with its wounded hero with a group of nicknamed friends (it’s part of MacGregor’s Brotherhood of the Sword series), it was fairly rewarding. The biggest problem I could see what…
If You Dare is the first in a trilogy about three Scottish brothers living under a deadly family curse. Kresley Cole tries to capture the feel of those old-school historical romances, full of sweeping adventure and larger-than-life passion, but annoying characters and a shallow storyline drag the book down. Courtland McCarrick is a Scottish mercenary…
When I began reading romance seriously (almost 11 years ago), Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz was among my first discoveries. My husband was in grad school and money was tight, so I would check out all her books from the library. I had an in with the librarian, who would automatically put my name first on…
Nicholas Sparks says that “Romance novels have happy endings while love stories are not bound by this requirement. Love stories usually end tragically or at best, on a bittersweet note.” One of the best love stories ever written is Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, which is bittersweet indeed. Read it or watch the movie sometime…
Rebecca Hagan Lee’s fourth book in the Free Fellows League series, about a boyhood club whose members took an oath to be heroes for England in the fight against Napoleon, suffers from two of the most dreaded maladies in romance: Implausibility Syndrome and Sequelitis. Daniel, Duke of Sussex, has always pined to be included in…
If I had to use one word to describe A Woman’s Innocence, that word would be shallow. Shallow characterization, shallow historical detail, shallow plotting: this book has it all. It’s a paint-by-numbers job. I could hand this book to any reader as an example of why I’m currently so dissatisfied with the historical romance market….
Ride The Fire is a rather intriguing read and a sweet romance. Almost at odds with the sweet romance, though, are its graphic scenes of war and torture. This book is not for the faint of heart. Elspeth Stewart lived a nightmare of a childhood, abused by her stepfather and stepbrother. She is almost relieved…
Are you up for a good gothic novel? One with a labyrinthine medieval castle set in the deep, dark woods, complete with mysterious noises in the night, and a Saturnine, masked earl issuing warnings not to wander the castle? Sounds good, doesn’t it? Well, Wicked, a gothic-wannabe, is not good. Not by a long shot….
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