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…
Widowed Lady Catherine Wodeway comes to town to keep an aunt company, and perhaps find a new companion. On her first week there she meets Max de Rohan, a former policeman and current employee of the home office. Max has a somewhat mysterious past, and a definite desire to avoid an entangling relationship with a…
Beast by Judith Ivory is one of my two all-time favorite romance books and also simply one of the best books I have ever read. When I read books or watch movies, afterwards I have a certain feel for them, a textural sensation. Beast has left me with one of the richest, most voluptuous “feels”…
Let me state that it is difficult to summarize Black Silk without doing it an injustice, because this book, this story, these characters and their interpersonal relations are so unusual, so remarkable, and so complex that the whole is near nigh irreducible. I mean, is it possible to admire the Mona Lisa a square inch…
The Devil’s Bargain was a wonderful surprise. The cover blurb worried me: the alpha-hero-seeking-revenge plot has been done to death. But Edith Layton has taken this clichéd plot element and made it work in a fresh, touching and often funny love story. Sir Alasdair St. Erth has returned to England after several years abroad. He…
I don’t have the difficulty some readers do with fake-royalty stories, especially if they have an historical setting. What I do have difficulty with, however, is unsympathetic characters, and the heroine of Her Highness, My Wife teetered on the verge of almost too unsympathetic for my taste. A very attractive hero and a plot that…
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