Somewhere in the pages of Three Nights… there was a DIK screaming to get out. But – very, very regretfully – some beautifully written, sexy, sweet, and romantic early chapters give way to a painful mishmash of melodramatic goings-on and overwrought prose culminating in a kind of group hug straight out of a bad sitcom….
The Wicked Lover is a Georgian romance. A kick-off-your-shoes-and- sink-your-teeth-into-it Georgian romance. I read it slowly during a busy period and every time I opened the book I savored the experience. Ross’s latest opens with a terrific, attention-grabbing scene. The hero, Robert Sinclair Dovenby (known as Dove) returns home to find a giant bonfire in…
If Secrets was a movie, it most emphatically wouldn’t be Shakespeare in Love, but something more along the lines of Kate and Leopold. There are pleasures to be had, to be sure, but ultimately, there is simply nothing here that will imprint itself on either your heart or your memory. Rescued from slavery in the…
Legendary Warrior begins promisingly enough with an interesting set-up, a dark, tortured soul of a hero, and a heroine with a fascinating talent. Unfortunately, though, the journey quickly takes the main road, eschewing interesting twists for the predictable. At times, its larger-than-life drama and writing style made it seem as if it had been written…
An interesting hero and a deeply conflicted heroine barely compensated for my frustration over secrets that were kept too long in Madeline Hunter’s latest. I almost gave up caring about the heroine, because it took so long for her to reveal what motivated her thoughts and actions. A chance encounter in the middle of a…
The Bachelor List is the first in a trilogy focusing on three sisters living in early 1900’s England. In this installment Constance Duncan holds center stage, in a romance that pits her feminist sensibilities against those of Max Ensor, a politician who believes women should stay at home – barefoot and pregnant. While much of…
The bloody Border feuds between the English and the Scots are both terrible and fascinating. But while many have written about them, few books give much consideration to the human side of the brutality marking Border life hundreds of years ago. In The Linnet, Elizabeth English brings this time and place to life, showing both…
Nan Ryan’s latest, Chieftain, features a half-breed Comanche war chief and a free spirit. They meet and fall in love on a reservation (sort of) and run off to be together. While fast-paced, Ryan’s story suffers from a lack of romance, at the very least. Maggie Bankhead is searching for a purpose in life. She…
It’s always a pleasure to come across a new-to-me author with a real knack for telling a story. While Lisa Higdon clearly has that gift, unfortunately, the story she tells here features so many screamingly generic elements that Until You’re Mine ultimately ranks as no more than an average read. Trying to scrape together a…
An intelligent pair of lovers and sizzling sexual tension make Guilty Pleasures a most enjoyable romance. It breaks no new ground, but it tells a familiar story in a very engaging way. Anthony Courtland, the Duke of Tremore, is fascinated with antiquities. He is excavating a Roman villa on one of his properties and plans…
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