Romances set during and after the Civil War are scarce as can be these days, so I was really looking forward to Magnolia Creek, particularly as it is set in Kentucky, near where I live. While it has many qualities to recommend it, I found it sadly lacking in the main thing a romance novel…
Come What May is an historical romance set in America, but it’s not a Western. Leslie LaFoy’s latest is set in Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution. The plot involves a forced marriage between two strong characters who made this a very fun book to read. When Claire Curran, acting as a representative…
Sometimes a hot read gets too hot, and the passion overcomes the love. That was my experience in reading Nicole Jordan’s upcoming release, which is being published in hardcover and paperback simultaneously. The hero and heroine were so busy “getting busy” that it made me doubt the authenticity of the emotional component of their relationship….
Deborah Hale’s Border Bride takes place along the border of Wales and England during the Crusades, Conwy ap Ifan is returning home after 13 years spent as a warrior in the Holy Land. Although happy to see his homeland, Con is there with another agenda. He is to speak with the Welsh lords on behalf…
Hope Tarr was on the verge of something really great with her latest book, Tempting, but instead, she settled for something good. I’d hoped she would explore the problems the hero, Simon Belleville, faced being a self-made Jewish man in Victorian London, but she downplayed that aspect. While there was some internal conflict on Simon’s…
Adam Hawthorne, the Earl of Blackwood, first sees Jillian Whitney during one of his early morning rides in the park. She’s busily feeding the ducks and seemingly doesn’t notice him, but in reality she knows someone is there. Both of them prefer the park in the early morning before it gets crowded; Adam suffers from…
A well-told erotic story can definitely be a good thing. However, just because a book is filled with sex acts and sex words doesn’t mean that it doesn’t still owe it to the readers to have a good plot, and most importantly, characters the reader can relate to or care about. In this case, Bliss…
In the beginning, I had high hopes for Mistress of Rossmor. The author’s writing style is nice, her words flow easily onto the page and include some vivid imagery. The story itself was intriguing and my interest was engaged. But then events began to plod along with a pace that seemed to slow as I…
Husband-and-wife writing team May McGoldrick’s latest romance, The Rebel, was a difficult one for me to grade. On the good side, it had a terrific hero and heroine. On the not-so-good side, it had a supporting cast so loathsome that I kept putting the book down in order to avoid them. After a chance encounter…
Why don’t authors who like to write characters with modern sensibilities just stick to writing contemporary romances? Someone please explain it to me. Please! If an author wants a heroine to have no qualms about premarital sex, to have little respect for the dictates of society, to have democratic, populist ideas, why not just write…
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