Unexpected plot twists and a wonderfully appealing hero and hero elevate All I Ever Needed from other popular Regency-era historicals featuring men involved in secret work for the government. It’s the third in a series about the Compass Club, an organization started by four boys who met at school. Each boy had some family connection…
Shadow of the Sun is an exciting Egyptian adventure tale that should appeal to readers who enjoy action and exotic settings. Unfortunately, it’s also a romance, and things are less rosy on that end. For most of her life, Sarah Pendergrass’s father, Lord Whitehurst, had no use for his only child. He left her in…
Seen By Moonlight by Kathleen Eschenburg features likable protagonists, an unusual plot, a great sense of place and history, and is written in a beautiful style. There’s just one problem: it’s kind of boring. Annabelle Hallston is an unconventional young woman in 1860s Virginia society. When her scholarly father dies, she and her two brothers…
Celeste Bradley is turning into one of the more reliable authors of European Historicals and if this book isn’t an outstanding read, it’s a darn good one. And, frankly, considering what’s out there these days, there’s a lot to be said for that, isn’t there? The third book in her Liars Club series, The Spy…
No Place for a Lady took me a long time to read – a very, very long time to read. It started off interestingly enough, but after the first three chapters or so I lost interest in these characters, and things did not improve from there. Marcus Kane, Lord Chadwick, is the heir to an…
This is a difficult book to grade. It took me two weeks to get through the interminable first 190 pages, and then I devoured the remainder in an evening. It features the kind of selfish jackass hero that, under the right circumstances, I sometimes like. The first 190 pages do not provide the right circumstances,…
There were a great many unique ideas in Midnight Angel that I enjoyed. However, as I continued reading, the heroine grew annoying, parts of the storyline became cliched, and the villain turned into cardboard. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1; var ZoneID = 4; var browDateTime = (new Date()).getTime(); if (browName=='Netscape') {…
Self-published books can sometimes provide an interesting reading experience since the author herself is usually investing both her time and money into a book born simply out of her love for the story. It’s obvious in Calico Queen that her love of writing and fascination with the people and settings she creates motivate Elizabeth Butler….
Like many readers, I very much enjoyed Almost A Gentleman, Pam Rosenthal’s debut romance novel. If it wasn’t quite a DIK for me, it was both romantic and erotic and definitely left me looking forward to the author’s future books. Unhappily, the The Bookseller’s Daughter is such a dramatic decline from that promising first effort…
While the rakish earl and the proper-but-not-boring lady are not new characters of the Regency, Nicola Cornick draws them well in this delightful story. The characters are certainly familiar, but they and their story are far from being dull or ordinary. Amy Bainbridge, the daughter of a gambler, is “on the shelf” and living in…
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