Okay, so you won’t find any Regency spies or half-baked suspense plots in Edith Layton’s latest. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you also won’t find a lot of reasons to keep turning the pages either. To put it bluntly, Alas, My Love is a classic Regency in Disguise and, what might…
The Lady Doth Protest seems to be loosely based on Lysistrata, a play where the women of Athens barricade themselves in the Acropolis and refuse to let the men have sex with them until they make peace with Sparta. Only Klassel’s humor is a bit broader than Aristophanes’. Lady Margaret de Languetot, called Megge by…
Blythe: Linda, Tina St. John’s been writing for years, and her first three books were DIK’d by AAR. In a way, it’s kind of surprising that I’d never read her before, but Heart of the Flame is the first of hers that I’ve tried. I think part of the reason is that I’m not the…
This novel has at its center a very interesting and little mentioned event in English Regency Romanceland. King George III is dead and Prinny has declared a year of mourning at the end of which he will be crowned King George IV. He plans to use that year to obtain a divorce from his despised…
To a casual browser, The Naked Duke looks like a light Regency-era historical romance, and it does have its share of witty banter and eccentric characters. But it also hearkens back to the old fashioned bodice-ripper, especially when it comes to the villain, who is a skanky piece of evilness with rape and murder on…
Historical romance is my favorite type of romance, and I am always happy to see new authors being published. While debut author Kimberly Logan has a rather pleasing style, her choice of material just does not rise above the ordinary. A Kiss in the Dark tells yet another all too familiar Regency historical tale with…
Jocelyn Kelley is a new pseudonym for an author who has written under several names and across several genres, most recently as JoAnn Ferguson writing Traditional Regencies and Regency-set mysteries. This time around, she has chosen a particularly interesting moment in Medieval history: the final confrontation between King Henry II and Thomas à Becket, Archbishop…
Unquestionably, the author’s Roselynde Chronicles are considered a classic in the genre and are well-loved by many readers. Though the story of Alinor, Simon, and those who came after them already seemed complete, when Gellis wrote a new novel set during the gap in time between Roselynde and Alinor, I was curious to try it….
Highlander in Disguise is the second book in a trilogy about the Scottish Lockharts, a family in search of a missing heirloom. Although the book occasionally suffers from clichéd moments, London’s style of writing makes this a smooth and enjoyable read. If they fail to locate a missing family treasure – or “beastie” as they…
While last year’s Miss Wonderful was an appropriately wonderful book, I have to admit that it felt somewhat mannered to me – almost as if the author kept a deliberate distance between herself and her characters. I learned a great deal about canal construction in early 19th century England, laughed at the author’s undeniably witty…
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