I often wonder if authors find it hard to come up with new and interesting variations on common themes. After all, how many dukes and lords can find everlasting romantic happiness with beautiful ladies before we run out? With that in mind, Stella Cameron’s latest, A Useful Affair, looked rather interesting. It is purportedly about…
The best word to describe Marsha Canham’s My Forever Love would be solid. Considering how hard it is to find good medievals these days, that should be taken as a ringing endorsement. It’s nothing earth-shattering and is a little on the slow side, but it’s also well-written and vivid, with an interesting spin on real-life…
Another new to me author and sadly another disappointment. I’m giving Kathryn Smith’s latest a low grade not because of one tremendous flaw but because of a host of smaller ones that overwhelmed any positive feelings I had. In her newest Ryland Brothers book, Ms. Smith tells the reader about an abiding love and tells…
Normally, I very much enjoy books set in the times when modern America was just shaping up: the combination of cowboys, Indians and military men, and the often rough way of life are enough to form a sizzling basis for a story. However, The Princess and the Wolf not only failed to light a fire…
Tempting the Heiress is an unusual mixture of the author’s raw talent and her disappointingly crude technique, which resulted in awkward moments that detracted from the overall success of this story. And that’s not including the fact that unfortunately absolutely none of this talent is at all apparent until the second half of the novel,…
After reading The Pirate Next Door, I knew that I had to read the sequel featuring James Ardmore’s story. But even though I tore into The Pirate Hunter right as my copy arrived, I soon realized it could have used stronger editing; the tale is rougher than that of its predecessor and at times Ardmore’s…
The Price of Pleasure has the sort of adventurous plot that’s sure to entice me, but in the end the book left me a little unsatisfied. My ongoing frustration with the hero and heroine served to limit my enjoyment of an otherwise entertaining novel. When she was thirteen, Victoria Dearbourne was shipwrecked. Her parents were…
Harper Allen’s The Man That Got Away is one of the most original debut romances I’ve ever come across, and one of my favorites. A time-travel romance with an unusual setting – 1930s Hollywood – it’s brimming over with creativity, excitement, emotion and a lot of heart. Most of all, it’s just a lot of…
The Marriage Test is the third in a series of comedic medieval novels about young ladies from the fictional Convent of the Brides of Virtue and their adventures in pursuit of marriage and love. This third installment is my favorite of the series, though it’s still not as good as my favorite books by Krahn,…
Laurin Wittig’s latest historical appears to be a kinder, gentler spin on the Taming of the Shrew theme. Elizabeth English took an excellent take at this theme earlier this year with The Linnet, and I was curious to see what Wittig’s tale would bring. Unfortunately, there were just so many things out of kilter with…
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