Ana Seymour is a new author for me, and I was pleased enough by Master of Castle Glen to consider looking for other titles by her. Set in 1885 Glencolly, Scotland, the story begins with Fiona MacLennan, four months a widow, meeting the train that will bring the new laird of Castle Glen to claim…
Anyone watching me read A Necessary Husband would have thought I was a great candidate for therapy. I’m sure it looked something like this: smile, nod; growl and grit teeth; smile, nod; growl and grit teeth…. At times I enjoyed the story immensely, but other times the heroine drove me crazy. American Margaret “Meg” Stanton-Lynch…
Life in England during the Middle Ages was fraught with danger. Epona (Pony) finds herself caught between two warring factions – Vikings and Saxons. Pony is drawn into King Alfred’s war to dominate the land but her involvement with the Valgar, a Viking, will put all of her beliefs to the test. Valgar the Beast…
If alpha males came in a supersize package (“I’d like mine Extra-Virile, please!”), Christina Dodd’s usual heroes would be toting an extra-large drink as they rolled into town. So if you don’t enjoy reading sex scenes with a struggle for power and men who act and behave like men, you most likely will not enjoy…
I’ve been a fan of Alexis Harrington for many years. A Light for My Love was my first Harrington read, and I fell in love with Jake Chastain and his story of unrequited love (later “requited,” of course!). Other favorites include A Taste of Heaven and Harper’s Bride. I was hoping The Irish Bride would…
This was a tough book for me to grade because I think there are two types of romance fans who will pick up this novel and your reading experience with The Perfect Lover will likely depend on your previous acquaintance with Laurens’s series of Cynster novels. For Cynster followers like myself, this book delivers the…
Although To Wed A Stranger is a sequel of sorts to Edith Layton’s “C” series, it’s not necessary to have read those books to thoroughly enjoy this one, nor does Layton lazily repeat the action in the previous stories to propel the action of this one along. Edith Layton is one of my favorite Regency/Historical…
Into Temptation is a very smoothly-written book, with a flawed but likable heroine and a lot of emotional complexity. Unfortunately, the dynamic that arises between the hero and the heroine set my teeth on edge. Julian Rexley, Earl of Wolfram, is infuriated to learn that his sister Letitia has run away from home and taken…
I want to start off with the positive here. Wendy Burge is a talented writer with a real knack for telling an emotional and involving story. But, regretfully, in While You Slept her deft writerly hand is completely overwhelmed by a melodramatic plot, a hero who exhibits an unnatural patience that takes him completely out…
I first read Shirley Busbee’s Lady Vixen when I was 14 and became instantly obsessed with historical romances. It is my number one, all-time favorite novel. I have read and agreed with the other reviews of Busbee’s recent offerings and I too found them predictable and plodding (though without the brain-numbing prose of Kathleen Woodiwiss)….
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