Untamed was one of those books I just couldn’t put down. I stretched breaks at work, and prolonged my lunch period as much as I dared because I couldn’t bear to stop reading. Whenever that happens, I know I’ve found a keeper. When it happens after eight years of re-reading a book, I know it’s…
I admit it: I’m a curmudgeon when it comes to comedies set in historical time periods. Usually, I just don’t think they’re all that funny. The banter seems stilted and unreal, the situations seem unlikely and contrived. But The Marriage Lesson by Victoria Alexander pleased even me: it is charming. Thomas Effington, Marquess of Helmsley,…
Against the Odds is well-written and even interesting, but ultimately forgettable. In the aftermath of the Civil War, a Southern lady and a Yankee POW find love on board a doomed steamboat. The historical flavor is nice, but the crisis-to-crisis pace is a little monotonous. Gabe Davis is one of a thousand prisoners of war…
“He has a scar on the back of his neck.” According to the back cover blurb, that’s what Mirabella Whittingham knows about a man she thinks is responsible for the death of her best friend. So what does our intrepid heroine do? She decides to kiss all the men who danced with her friend in…
Kat Martin’s Heartless has an interesting premise and intriguing characters. It doesn’t quite live up to its initial promise, but it’s an entertaining read anyway. Ariel Summers is the daughter of a drunken, abusive peasant. At fourteen, she longs to escape her life of poverty and ignorance, so she makes a devil’s bargain with the…
Instead of All a Woman Wants, this book would have better been titled All a Woman Needs is a Man to Take Over and Make Everything Better. That title more accurately reflects what the book was truly about. Miss Beatrice Cavendish is in a bind. She has spent all twenty-eight years of her life doing…
The Sheik was an instant best seller when it was first published in 1921, and it gave Rudolph Valentino his best known movie role. It also spawned a multitude of imitators – sheik books are being published even now – and it was the grandmother of all the sweet/savage romance novels where a feisty, proud…
If the heroine, Grace Fisk, had not been working so hard to achieve Too Stupid to Live status, this story could have been a must-read, if not quite a keeper. Grace Fisk is the youngest of three sisters who became pirates in an attempt to save their homes from being destroyed in the Seven Years’…
Until I read The Prisoner, I had read only one book by Karyn Monk –The Rebel and the Redcoat, which is a huge favorite. So I started this one with high expectations. But although I found the premise interesting, this book just didn’t work for me. Try as I might, I just couldn’t get into…
The third book in Elizabeth Lowell’s Disputed Lands series, Enchanted rounds out the series with a story as gripping and enjoyable as its prequels, Untamed and Forbidden. Like the other two, I’ve been reading and re-reading this book for several years, yet it never fails to keep me eagerly turning pages to rediscover the beautiful…
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