Although the story of the gently bred lady and the low born man who fall in love is not a new one, I found the main characters in A Notorious Love set apart from the rest. Just one example is that they’ve met and interacted before the book opens, although that hasn’t exactly set them…
Tracy Fobes’ latest novel, To Tame A Wild Heart, contains an interesting story, likable characters, and an intriguing plot. It’s not bad at all, yet somehow these factors never completely mesh into a truly great romance story. Sarah is an independent young woman who nurses farm animals and lives in her own croft in the…
Amber was a pleasant enough historical romance with a couple of very likable lead characters. It had a Restoration setting (a nice change of pace), and some unusual and very welcome touches. But it suffered from pacing problems and an overabundance of plot. Amber started off with a bang, took a wild turn in the…
Fans of Stephanie Laurens’s Bar Cynster books will not be disappointed by the latest installment in the series, while newcomers won’t have any problem reading this as a stand-alone. Gyles Rawlings, Earl of Chillingworth and an honorary Cynster, gets his comeuppance in spectacular style, learning all about love as well as passion. And man, is…
Aurelie is an orphan of unknown parentage who was raised by nuns in the convent of Briermeade. Lady Lorabelle of Sperling also lived at the convent, in preparation for her marriage to Sir Damon of Wulfere, whom Lorabelle had never met. But the plague has killed Lorabelle and almost everyone else in the convent, leaving…
This book failed for me on a number of different levels. The characters never engaged my interest, the plot felt forced from page one, and the heroine engaged in actitivity completely at odds with the written description of her intelligence. The hero also had a serious guilt complex stemming from nothing that made sense to…
I’ve had bad luck with paranormals in the past. I always hope for the best but often find the stories being too cute. Not so with Danegeld. Susan Squires does an admirable job of portraying life in the middle ages accurately, and there wasn’t a talking animal or cloudy crystal ball in sight. Britta lives…
Michelle Place and Cheryl Zach are the relatively new writing team behind the pen name Nicole Byrd. I had never read any of their work before and was really hoping that I would enjoy Dear Imposter, particularly since I myself am part of a writing team. Regrettably, I didn’t. Miss Psyche Hill needs to claim…
As I finished the latest installment in Susan Edwards’ White series, I looked at the fiery cover painting and elegant lettering, thinking that like the book design, White Dove is striking in some ways. And yet I winced as I realized that I was going to have write an ambivalent review, despite the handful of…
A fabulous first and second meeting between the hero and heroine had me turning pages quicker than I’m typing this. A few more chapters in and I was seriously rooting for the couple and figuring on writing a Desert Isle Keeper Review. As you can tell from the grade, something went terribly wrong. The momentum…
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