Reading Obsession I remembered why I gave up watching soap operas; they’re too frustrating. Speaking of frustration, I don’t know how anyone who read its prequel, Devotion, with its mother of all cliff hanger endings, handled it without giving up on Sutcliffe altogether. Unfortunately I’m not sure this is the book you all were waiting…
Elaine Coffman’s first book in the Graham Clan series, The Highlander, is a very adventurous read, and I can’t wait to meet the rest of the family. Sophie d’Alembert is French royalty on the run. The granddaughter of the Louis XIV, she’s been betrothed to the Duke of Rockingham, a loathesome creature. And so she…
Let me start off by saying that there are a lot of people who should avoid this book. If the thought of “wallpaper” history makes you shudder, if the repeated use of a word like “uptight” in a 19th century-set novel induces a cringe, and if you hold fast and firm to all the accepted…
Judith French calls her latest novel “the book of her heart,” a sentiment that shows through in every page. While Dorchester is marketing this tale as historical romance, The Conqueror is more historical fiction than a traditional historical romance. The strong romantic element – French brings Alexander the Great and his beloved Roxane to wonderful…
The cover of Sunset Embrace (originally published in 1985) describes it as “a classic love story,” and really nothing describes it better. I adore this book for many reasons that I’ll get to later, but for now let me introduce the two main characters. Lydia Langston is a young woman on the run from the…
It took me over 10 years to read this book. Well, let me explain. It sat on my TBR shelf for 10 years before I finally decided to grab some of the oldest (and dustiest) books and read them. I wish I had read this book when I first bought it because I had cheated…
To start off with a positive, Jessica Benson has what certainly seems to me to be a pitch perfect Regency voice: A discordant word never mars her dialogue. On a less positive note, there is way, way, way, w-a-a-a-y too much of it. Her heroine talks to her new husband, to her mother, to her…
The characters in Wicked Wager are ones I love. Tony, Viscount Nelthorpe, is a rake, trying to live down his past. Jenna, Lady Fairchild, is an intelligent, mature woman. They know each other from the past, and Jenna has always despised him. But times and circumstances have changed for both of them. Had Tony not…
There are several ingredients in How to Treat a Lady that should have made it harder for me to enjoy this book than I did. Dialogue that sounded a bit anachronistic to my ear, and that creaky old plot device, amnesia, should have turned me off. But I discovered that in the right author’s hands,…
This book starts with such promise it’s hard to believe it becomes so thoroughly bogged down with its own minutiae in the middle. Had the author focused more intently on her hero and heroine, and less on ancillary details, it would have been a riveting story. As it is, however, it is one good story…
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