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…
I happily devoured Lord of Ice in one gulp. Only after I had turned the last page did I realize that it made a rather unsatisfying meal. Damien Knight, earl of Winterley, was a war hero on the Peninsula. Now that Napoleon is imprisoned on Elba Damien is experiencing what we recognize as post traumatic…
I may not have read this actual book until this week, but I’ve read at least fifty just like it. If anyone ever asks for an example of a paint by numbers romance, I am going to wave a copy of Pride and Prudence at them. Hero with an identity crisis? Check. Spunky heroine who…
The ladies of Lucy Lavender Enterprises have fallen on hard times and are desperate need of cash, so they decide to catch notorious highwayman Dandy Dan for the five hundred pounds reward. Lady Miranda, founder of Lucy Lavender, pretends to be stranded along a stretch of road that Dandy Dan frequents and Miss Desdamona Quiggly,…
Everyone in So Wild A Heart assures the heroine that the hero is not as bad as is generally believed. Sure, there’s the 15-year affair with a married woman, the drinking, the ancient scandals. There’s the fact that he has little money, just a title and a crumbling old mansion to preserve for which he…
So I’m in this thrift shop, looking at the shelves of dilapidated, abandoned paperbacks, their pages yellow and acid-brittle, reading the titles on the spines with numbed curiosity – so many books, so many stories, so many of them forgotten and forgettable – when I see the name “Laura London.” My eyes widen: I know…
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