A historical author who can really set a scene is a treasure indeed. In Paula Reed’s latest book, it is the little details that count – everything from how characters move through a place, what they see, and how they interpret their world takes the reader back to the seventeenth century. Reed also gives readers…
Barbara Metzger is an author beloved by many, having written more than forty traditional Regencies in a more than twenty year career. Last year she made the move from trads to full-length historicals. While I have read and enjoyed many Metzger trads, this is my first read in the longer length, and I found it…
Linda: Something About Emmaline was just a delight for me, I was engaged from page one. I loved the characters, the banter and the Remington Steele type plot. Blythe: When I read the back of the book, I too thought of Remington Steele. As I was reading it, I decided it was Remington Steele meets…
Jennifer Ashley’s The Care and Feeding of Pirates is part funny, part exasperating, part exciting, and a little frustrating. Oh, I enjoyed it and found it a good read, but a way too clueless heroine and a saggy middle kept it from being an excellent one. Honoria Ardmore is the sister of James Ardmore from…
Remember when everyone was “waiting for Rothgar”? Well, he’s back in a secondary role in Jo Beverley’s newest Malloren book. Like its predecessors, it’s set in Georgian England, when men were men – but got to wear really cool pretty clothes. I have to confess that I am a relative novice where Beverley is concerned;…
I admit that, in its early chapters, I didn’t like Sin and Sensibility very much. The main characters seemed both unoriginal and unlikable, and I was all set for another stale, uninspired Regency Historical with nothing new or interesting about it. But the author skillfully brings those same characters to life and instills a lot…
Sarah Gabriel’s debut novel, Stealing Sophie, features a couple who marry for the wrong reasons and try to make it work. The story is unique and fresh, and has some well-written scenes, but there are pitfalls along the way. Conner MacPherson is a man of honor. So when he makes what he thinks is a…
Although The Bride’s Necklace features the same characteristics found in many Regency-era romances, the characters and the situations offer a romantic read. And those looking for less fluff in their historicals may find it here. When her mother dies, Victoria Temple is the only one who can protect her younger sister Claire from the perverted…
Creating a hero and heroine readers will actually care about is quite difficult. Creating two couples and giving them equal weight must be even more difficult still. Though Vision in Blue has its weaknesses, Nicole Byrd gives readers a tale of two likable couples and two rather tender romances to enjoy. Gemma Smith, a former…
Celeste Bradley begins a new series on The Royal Four, the lordly overseers of the English spies from her previous series The Liar’s Club. This new book leans heavily on the previous series for recurring characters and storylines, and though I have read three of the four books in the earlier series, I still felt…
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