Take a little trip to a coastal Carolina town and meet a couple of engaging characters whose struggle against each other – and themselves – provides for a few hours of entertaining reading. A solid sense of time and place, and a good dose of humor, add to the enjoyment of reading Tides of Passion,…
Sometimes you have all the right ingredients and you make a fantastic meal, one where everyone exclaims “how could you have made this with that!” Sometimes you have all the right ingredients and the meal tastes like last night’s frozen dinner reheated in a too cold oven. That’s how it is with Rules of Marriage,…
In a recent Potpourri Message Board discussion someone asked what trends we’d like to see started. Number one on my list would be something new and fresh in an historical set in the Regency. Yes, the period has been done to death, but I still pick them up and hope the author will make me…
I finished reading this book a couple of days ago, closed it, set it down, went on about my business. This morning, I picked it up so I could write the review. The problem was, I could barely remember a thing about it. In two days, I’d forgotten the names of the characters and the…
Sometimes you can jump in at the end of a series of connected books and just enjoy the one in your hands on its own merits. Unhappily, such was not the case here. Heart of the Condor is very much tied to its predecessors, it assumes that the reader is already familiar with so much…
When Strangers Marry is a re-do of Lisa Kleypas’s 1992 book, Only In Your Arms. I have that book in my TBR pile, and after reading this, I think I will dig it out and see what changes were made to the original. As for this one, I really enjoyed When Strangers Marry. Lisa Kleypas…
In general, pirate ships duke it out with harems for the Most Implausible Setting award, so it’s refreshing to read a pirate romance that seems a little more in touch with reality. Unfortunately, the reality of pirate ships seems to be long stretches of tedium interrupted by short bursts of activity. While it’s nice that…
With His Ring is part of The Brides of Bath series. The setting was enjoyable, the plot was silly, and the characters were alternately endearing and infuriating. It was a textbook example of “Regency Lite;” pleasant enough but altogether forgettable. Glee Pembroke is a beauty who has received many offers of marriage but has turned…
This book took me twenty-two days to read. It’s a personal record that I hope never to equal. We’re not talking twenty-two days while I read other books I was more interested in; we are talking twenty-two days while I trudged forward, page by painstaking page. Twenty-two days during which I found other, more worthy…
The Legend of Lacy Black reminded me quite strongly of a Bertrice Small book, with a more contemporary setting and not quite so much lust. Unfortunately, I’m not at all fond of Ms. Small’s style of storytelling, so for me this was not a good thing. Lacy Black is Mark Damian’s creation. Growing up as…
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