I was a little worried when Julia Justiss introduced her main characters in the first chapter of My Lady’s Pleasure. They are very familiar types: the handsome rake and the widowed virgin. This is one of those books, though, that manages to take familiar elements and transform them into something wonderful. Valeria is the nearly-penniless…
Will Falcon is a ship’s captain with a mission. He’s in search of the pirates and thieves who’ve been luring ships onto reefs, and then collecting the booty from the wrecks. Unfortunately, he’s tossed overboard during a storm and would surely drown if it weren’t for Angel, who lives with a ragtag band calling themselves…
Having just read and loved this author’s Young Adult novel, Princess in Love, I was very excited to have the chance to review Kiss the Bride. I hadn’t read any of Cabot’s historical backlist, but based on my experience with her YA novels, I was fully prepared to glom her romance books. Unfortunately, I discovered…
Having read Reavis’s new historical The Bride Fair, I was curious about its relationship to the author’s other historicals. I did a little digging and found out that the The Prisoner is a prequel of sorts, so I searched out a copy of the older book, hoping that it would be as good, but not…
What is it about some romance novels that make them stick in my mind? For me, it’s the characters who make a novel unforgettable. Wolf Mackenzie, Eve Dallas, Lord Ragsdale, Jamie and Claire Fraser – they are the reasons I remember their stories. So what about the characters in Shirl Henke’s Wanton Angel? She is…
The Kissing Gate has two hurdles to jump over right from the start; it contains secondary characters who happen to be children and that it is a second chance romance. Both of these can be difficult to write well, yet Carr takes these thorny plotlines and makes them blend perfectly into the story. The suspense…
When I picked up Gentleman’s Bargain I had just finished reading a contemporary, a paranormal, and a mainstream fiction novel. All I wished for was a simple old-fashioned historical romance. Well, after struggling with this 300+ page story for over three weeks I’ve learned to be very careful with my wishes. This was an “old-fashioned…
The early appearance in The Fortune Hunter of The Dreaded Will Stipulation had me doubting whether I’d enjoy the book, but Diane Farr is such a talented writer that she manages to pull it off with her customary flair. Witty dialogue and believable characters added to the pleasure of reading the story of how a…
Donall the Bold is the laird of the MacLean clan, which shares the island of Doon with the MacInnes clan. When his sister-in-law, Lileas MacInnes, is murdered, Donall is blamed (entirely without evidence) by the MacInnesses for her death. He is kidnapped by the MacInnesses, who intend to torture and kill him. Donall is enraged….
There are lots of reasons why we love men. And there are lots of reasons that sometimes we don’t. Johanna Lindsey’s new book is a virtual litany of the latter. The Pursuit features page after page of men fighting men, men making snap judgments, men delivering ultimatums, men fighting men, men stoically making incredibly stupid…
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