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…
Having read and granted Desert Island Keeper status to the final chapter of Josie Litton’s Viking trilogy (Come Back to Me), I thought it only fitting that I also read and review Castles In The Mist, the third book in her Akoran series. While I found the story interesting enough, and the characters generally sympathetic,…
Ravished is an anomaly; a larger-than-life romance featuring elegiac sex, preposterous plot twists and turns, and a hero and heroine who are as close to perfect – and colorless – as those found in any 70’s or 80’s bodice-ripper. In addition, Virginia Henley peppers her story with loads of historical detail, some of which may…
I was excited to be assigned The Italian for review; I enjoyed Coffman’s historicals years ago, when I first started reading romance, and I looked forward to a pleasant reacquaintance with her work. While the book turned out to be decent, it also turned out to have a far less romantic component than an historical…
I had serious issues with this book, beginning in chapter two and continuing until it was finally over. The hero’s justification for his nasty behavior did not endear him to me, and the heroine’s idiotic tendencies didn’t do her any favors either. Alexander DeFrouchette, (the bastard son of a man accused of being a traitor…
No doubt some of you are wondering why so many of us keep buying Susan Johnson’s books year after year. For me, at any rate, Forbidden is one of the most powerful reasons. After all, anyone who could write such an intelligent, lush, erotic, and three-dimensional love story once could certainly do it again. The…
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