Victoria Malvey’s Wedding of the Year is the reading equivalent of an egg cream – a mouthful of airy fizz with just enough chocolate to make it interesting, but not something to linger on the palate. While I wouldn’t take this book to the Desert Isle, I might take it to Grandmother’s house and while…
Forget judging a book by its cover; don’t judge this one by its cheesy title. Elizabeth English’s second release is an enjoyable and fast-paced romance with a strong plot and generally likable characters. Despite a few problems, it kept me turning pages right through to the very end. Deirdre Maxwell wants to go home to…
Fans of Hunter’s previous novels know that Morvan Fitzwaryn has vowed to reclaim his ancestral home of Harclow. As Lord of a Thousand Nights opens, Sir Morvan, hero of The Protector, is laying siege to Harclow as well as to nearby Black Lyne Keep. Lady Reyna Graham of Black Lyne has a plan. She sneaks…
I had mixed feelings about Gifts from the Sea. One minute the characters would be refreshingly honest, and the next they were having very clichéd misunderstandings. It was this inconsistency that kept me from truly connecting with the story. Goodger transports the reader back to the 1800’s and the tiny coastal village of Truro on…
As I write this review, I’m really trying to keep my temper under control. With few exceptions, the heroine of A Christmas Promise is the most irritating, pig-headed, unreasonable, whining twit I’ve ever read. I couldn’t get through this book fast enough and get that woman out of my life. Lady Juliana Archer married the…
Desire, the latest book in Nicole Jordan’s Notorious series, mixes searing love scenes with a strong plot and inherently good characters. Despite some problems with both the hero and the heroine, overall the book passionate, romantic, and well-written. Brynn Caldwell is a woman cursed. Generations ago, her ancestress stole the affections of a Gypsy woman’s…
Sir Richard has a problem. Everything about Isabel’s too blatant desire for him had been wrong – wrong in God’s eyes the world’s. She had been betrothed to his brother; therefore, she was his sister by marriage, her attraction for him both incestuous and adulterous. She had become a stone thrown against his honor and…
If The Husband Test were my first Betina Krahn romance, it would also be my last. That would be a shame, as I’ve enjoyed some of Krahn’s past work, particularly The Last Bachelor. Unfortunately, this disappointing book is not representative of its author’s potential. Eloise of Argent is a novice in the Convent of the…
If you’re a fan of humorous historical romance, Victoria Alexander’s latest is probably already on your TBB (to-be-bought) list. If you’re afraid of books with forced humor and too much fluff, you won’t find that here, where the marriage of convenience gets an original twist. Lady Jocelyn Shelton has finally done it. Her lifelong dream…
What is it with 19th century Americans who show up in romance novels? They talk about sex to English virgins. In watching Bostonian hero Marshall MacDougal take advantage of heroine Sarah Palmer I felt like an elementary teacher who asks the naughty little boy, “Does your mother let you talk like that at home?” As…
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