I’ll give props to Elizabeth Butler for tackling a sticky subject: the truth about slavery and attitudes toward it in the Border States just before the Civil War. The conflict at the center of the book is pretty strong, too: two people embarked on a Noble Cause who feel they must not fall in love…
Somewhere back in my youth I remember having a favorite historical romance that I read and re-read. Now all I can remember is the picture on the cover and the plot device that brought the heroine and hero together for the first time. The cover was one of those eighties covers – sort of a…
The first time I read The Dream Hunter, three years ago, I didn’t like it. At all. I don’t remember specific reasons, but I recorded a D as my grade for it in my personal reading log. I suspect I disliked the heroine and grew impatient for the slow-to-arrive resolution. My, how I have changed….
Egad. Here we go again. Another Scottish historical with badly written brogue. “While ye’re aff sleepin’ in the grass like a bluidy lamb, Lachlann and I are working our arses off pullin’ stones outta tha’ scabbert excuse for a field . . . You hinna gathered a single winkle all the day!” No. Not a…
After reading His Bride I tried to remember the last romance I’d read that focused almost entirely on the relationship between the hero and heroine, and you know, I couldn’t think of one. So many current romances include a mystery, paranormal experiences, the dreaded evil villain – or all of the above. The result is…
So many of the “classic” romances I read when I was younger seem dated now, relics of a simpler time when men were men, women were women, and authors could write 150,000-word novels and not get half of the words slashed out by ruthless, pen-wielding editors. But viewed from the perspective of today’s shorter romances,…
In the sequel to Someone Irresistible, Marcus, Earl of Renn, arrives home after four years in Egypt, in response to a plea for help from his younger sister, Christine. He arrives at his estate in Cornwall, only to discover that Christine has died from a mysterious fall. Renn enlists the help of Mary Marsh, who…
Wicked Lies is a book I’d characterize as flawed, but intriguing. It manages by turns to be both convoluted and thoughtful, and the characters are fairly likable – when their actions and motivations can be believed. While I’d probably consider it too flawed to warrant a recommendation, at least I wasn’t bored while I read…
Chasing a Rogue seems to me to be a clone of a previous book by this author, A Merry Chase. Now, I didn’t read A Merry Chase, but there is enough exposition in Chasing a Rogue to fill me in on all the details of that previous fun couple, Royce and Laurel, and their fox…
What She Wants zooms off the starting line at top speed, with a classic (a less kind reviewer might say clichéd) impetus driving the plot. Our hero, Hugh Dulonget, the newly minted earl of Hillcrest, is forced to marry a young woman in order to obtain his inheritance. The young woman, Willa, is so stunningly…
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