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)….
There are times when good writing can lift the reader above plot weaknesses and discrepancies and there are times when the writing just isn’t enough. Candace Camp’s Secrets of The Heart has good writing throughout, and most of the time it is enough to ignore the other problems. Sometimes, however, it just doesn’t stand up…
I knew this book was in trouble when I found myself rooting for the man-eating tiger to finish off the hero and heroine during their hunt for the beast. White Tiger’s Fancy does win points for trying something different than the usual historical romance: the setting is mostly in India, and the descriptions are vibrant…
I’ve read more than my share of badly written, mundane historical romances featuring a handsome rake and a feisty, foot-stomping heroine. Most of the time, I sigh, toss the book and forget about it. St. Raven has a handsome rake for a hero and a heroine who is an adventuress at heart. But unlike wallpaper…
Lord Ruin by Carolyn Jewel is a far-from-perfect book, but it is so entertaining, satisfying, and sensuous that I simply must recommend it anyway. The Duke of Cynnsyr, Ruan No-last-name (Or perhaps Ruan is his last name? I’ll get to that in a minute), is an unrepentant, spoiled, egotistical rake. Along with his best friend…
A Place Called Rainwater is the second in the Jones family series that began with The Edge of Town and tells the story of Jill, youngest of the Jones clan from Fertile, Missouri. Jill has come to Rainwater to help her widowed aunt Justine, whose “creeping paralysis” is gradually eroding her ability to manage the…
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