“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…
The first two books in this series, Slightly Shady and Don’t Look Back, didn’t inspire me much; I passed them along after I finished reading them. I’m pleased to say that this one will be staying on my keeper shelf. Tobias and Lavinia have finally found their footing, which makes their relationship far more enjoyable….
Sometimes I’m tempted to come up with a Letterman-type top ten list when I’m reading a book for review. Something like “You know it’s a bad sign when…” I’m sure you could fill in the blank with any number of romance clichés. Maybe because I had hoped for something else, Mary Reed McCall’s latest surprised…
C+ looks like such a tepid grade. In fact, my reactions to Silent Surrender were extremely strong. Some parts of it I loved; others annoyed the heck out of me. It is 1917, and Liana Wycliffe is a second-rate stage actress. She belongs to a theater company that is in Paris during World War I,…
It’s not easy doing justice to a book requiring two weeks to read, even if there eventually comes a time during reading when the book finally takes off. This was my experience with The Mad Marquis. Widower Henry Pelham needs a wife because he thinks his young daughter Isbeau needs a mother in her life….
Historical romances set in Scotland run a certain gamut: there’s the light and funny kind set in a fantasy Scotland, and there’s the more serious, dramatic kind set in a historically-grounded Scotland. The Destiny by Kathleen Givens is the latter kind, which is good – that’s what I like. But while the book’s history is…
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