If you like your history light, your characters amusing, and a nice story to just put a smile on your face, then you’ll enjoy the latest offering by Kinley MacGregor. Tired of watching their husbands, sons, and brothers die in a feud between their clans, the women of the MacAllisters and the MacDouglases have revolted….
I’d say it’s a pretty bad sign when a reviewer has to struggle to remember what a book was about when she only finished reading it last week. The Fire Inside will obviously not burn in my memory for all time, but it did fry me a little. Lady Kassandra Wentworth (aka Kitt), is reckless,…
Lord of Fire and Lord of Ice, both by Gaelen Foley, were published in consecutive months (January and February) and feature twin brothers as heroes. Lord Lucien Knight, Foley’s Lord of Fire, is seemingly a rogue who indulges in the worst of perversions. He blackmails virginal Alice Montague into residing at his country estate for…
There’s an energy and attention to detail that makes Ever a Princess quite fun to read, but the enjoyment is hampered by the fact that so many of the plot points have the wispy logic of a fever dream. When the king and queen of Saxe-Wallerstein-Karolya are murdered by a usurper, Princess Georgiana and a…
The blurb on the back of this debut novel tells the reader “fans of Kathleen Woodiwiss will love this. Fans of Stephanie Laurens will love this.” Possibly. But the two sentences are confusing. Woodiwiss’ level of tortured angst is far beyond this one and Laurens is a bit too light. If anything The Lily and…
A while back, after hearing positive feedback about Christina Dodd I picked up Move Heaven and Earth. While not a keeper, it was a good enough read that when the chance came to review her upcoming release, Lost in Your Arms, I jumped at it. There was a fantastic improvement in the quality of the…
There’s something kind of creepy to me about a man who falls in love with a woman because he believes she’s helpless and in need of rescue. And, since this plot would likely induce the gag factor in most modern day readers, it’s fortunate that the heroine finds something kind of creepy about it, too….
Justine Wittich’s Chloe and the Spy is an entertaining tale of a young woman’s yearning for a more exciting life and what happens when she finds it. Lady Chloe Lockwood is set to enjoy a very small taste of Society, but she is more intrigued by her aunt Heloise’s groom, Drury, than the gentlemen of…
Heart of a Lion is a throwback of a romance, an old-fashioned book with flowery narration and a larger than life hero and heroine. Although the first half of the book is almost fatally slow, the pace picks up in the second half and brings the book to a satisfying climax. Isabeau de Lyon is…
According to the author biography provided, Irish Rogue is Candace McCarthy’s eighteenth book. This is a fact that astonished me. The uneven pacing and stilted dialogue would make me guess that this was a first novel, if pressed, and one that could have used the efforts of an honest critique group and an editor. Conor…
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