I’ll confess that this is my first Bridgerton novel. I know now I want more of them, I want all of them. As soon as I finish this review, I’m going to the bookstore. What an endearing family!! Sir Phillip Crane never wanted to be a baronet. He was the younger son who was perfectly…
I was looking forward to this book, since Susan King has gotten such good reviews from us in the past. While Taming the Heiress is very well-written and contains interesting elements, I found it difficult to warm up to its heroine. Although it is 1850 and the modern era is in full swing, legend and…
It’s more appropriate than most author raves to find a Christina Dodd quote on the back of this Regency-set historical romance. Like Dodd, Greiman’s characterizations are lively and vivid, and her dialogue fairly sparkles. Unfortunately, Greiman’s plot is minimal and the book’s period setting seems more like a convenient one than one that is brought…
Johanna Lindsey’s newest, and her first for Simon & Schuster after a very lengthy association with Avon, is a witty western romance that made me smile as I turned the pages. The heroine is likable, and the pretending-to-be-plain premise fun, which makes up for a plot that isn’t particularly realistic. But after all these years,…
I’m new to Josie Litton’s Akora series and, based on this first visit, I think I’ll be going back. I liked the characters – Akoran, English, and American – and found both the suspense and romantic aspects of the story quite satisfying. Okay, so maybe some of the Akoran stuff is a bit hard to…
“Oh, goody!” I thought, as I started to read With Eyes Of Love, both hero and heroine wear glasses, are bookish, quietly funny and dislike the inanities of life in the ton. Just my cup of tea. My tea quickly started getting lukewarm, and then downright cold, as I discovered glaring historical inaccuracies and language,…
The best thing about being a reviewer for AAR is that it leads me to read books I wouldn’t otherwise have picked up. The Sea Wife is a one I probably would not have discovered on my own: not only have I never heard of this author, but the horrid cover art depicts the hero…
Celine Fontaine, a panic-attack-prone American heiress, is whisked away from her family’s ancestral French chateau and back in time by a lunar eclipse on New Year’s Eve, 1993. Winding up in the Artois Region of France in the year 1300, she immediately encounters Sir Gaston de Varennes. To be more specific, she encounters him in…
Dancing with A Rogue was a difficult book for me to read and, frankly, this is a difficult review to write. Normally when a book doesn’t quite work for me, I can pinpoint exactly what caused that reaction. But, surprisingly, though this story failed me to engage to the point that picking it up was…
Borrowed Dreams has a lot, a lot, going for it, but ultimately its story gets bogged down in its own intricacies, its flawless heroine, and its wildly divergent points of view. It shows remarkably good effort, but the result is not as richly satisfying as it could have been. Millicent Wentworth is a widow whose…
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