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…
Once a Mistress by Rebecca Hagan Lee seems to be the first book in a series about the children – legitimate and otherwise – of the Marquess of Templeston. Judging by this book, the series should be worth reading. Four years ago, Drew Ramsay, son of the Marquess, intended to marry Kathryn Markinson, an old…
The latest Susan Elizabeth Phillips release, Just Imagine is a revision of her first solo effort, originally titled Risen Glory. And for anyone who is wondering whether Ms. Phillips is as adept at writing historicals as she is at her many contemporary successes, this book answers – with a resounding yes. Katherine Louise Weston is…
No Man’s Mistress the sequel to Balogh’s More Than a Mistress, features Viola Thornhill, an independent woman with a mysterious past, and Ferdinand Dudley. Ferdinand wins Viola’s home in a card game and when he arrives to take possession, Viola swears the home is rightfully hers and should never have been wagered in the first…
I would call myself a tentative Balogh fan. One of my favorite romances is Heartless. I read that book and then, in a frenzy of excitement, snapped up a good deal of her backlist. Unfortunately, I have not found another Balogh that I felt equalled Heartless, and there have been three of her books that…
Love Comes Softly is an important book. If Kathleen Woodiwiss’ The Flame and the Flower changed the romance fiction market forever in 1972, in 1979 Love Comes Softly did something of the same thing for the Christian romance market which had been stagnating since the death of Grace Livingston Hill in 1947. A simple, sweet…
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