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…
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…
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