Kinley MacGregor’s latest offering, Born In Sin, is a redemption story, and quite a good one, as it happens. If there were a little more to it, it could have made the jump to DIK without much effort, but as it stands, it’s still a truly enjoyable read. Lord Sin, with his improbable (but well-explained)…
Pity poor Evangeline Clemens. She was educated at a proper English academy where young ladies were taught “only to expect the conventional from life, and to be indignant when the extraordinary thrust itself upon them.” Evangeline is headed for Boston to become a governess. Along the way, however, the extraordinary abruptly thrusts itself upon her…
The Bliss is plagued by problems of both plot and of character. The author told far more than she showed, something guaranteed to stop a story dead in its tracks, and as for the characters, just call them Mr. Sullen ‘n Broody and Little Miss Perky ‘n Feisty. This is one I had to force…
Watch out, Susan Johnson and Robin Schone. Behold: another entry in the historical-erotic-romance sub-genre. Absolute Pleasure is a deeply flawed book, yet I can offer a qualified recommendation based on the hero at its center. Lady Elizabeth Harcourt has spent her life at her father’s beck and call. Despite the fact that she’s the only…
I’m probably one of the six people in America who will admit to liking junior high. Like anything, I thought it had its ups and downs, but most of the time I thought the melodrama and angst were kind of fun. That said, it’s not something I want to relive, and when I read a…
This month’s book is Heather Cullman’s Scandal, a tale of a marquess’s daughter forced to marry a wealthy commoner who made his fortune in India. Gideon Harwood discovers a secret about Lady Julia’s father and agrees to marry her so that she might help his younger sisters gain entree into the ton. As he comes…
When A Dangerous Fancy opens, it is 1890 and Alexander Drake has just retuned from an assignment abroad in the service of the British government. Because Alex is a friend of Prince Edward, one of the first things he does is to go to attend the Prince at their club. Upon walking into the Prince’s…
“It was unbelievable, a play written by a madman.” So thinks a character late in this book, and I couldn’t help but agree. Although Ms. Coulter used to be an autobuy for me, The Penwyth Curse is an accurate example of why that has ceased to be so. While once upon a time you could…
I’ve read Elizabeth Thornton before, but I’ve never read an Elizabeth Thornton quite like this one. Frankly, before reading this book, I rated her as an author I enjoyed when persuaded by reviews and message board buzz to check out her latest release, but definitely not as an autobuy. All that’s changed. In Almost a…
Captured Innocence is a princess story with little charm. I read and enjoyed one of Sizemore’s fantasy titles, so I was a bit surprised at how little this book engaged me. Lady Lily Bancroft grew up living a fairly simple life in the English countryside. Her parents were loving, and she didn’t think much about…
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