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…
Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast are fairy-tale stories that have been used in countless romance novels. While I love those tales and never tire of them, it was a most pleasant surprise to find Teresa Medeiros dusting off Sleeping Beauty for her delightfully funny and sometimes poignant new book, A Kiss to Remember. I…
When I first heard that Karen Robards’ new novel was a historical, I was excited. I’ve enjoyed nearly all of her historicals in the past, and the mention of Ceylon in the blurb called up memories of Green Eyes, which was set almost entirely in Ceylon and is one of my favorites by her. While…
Emma Jensen’s new book, Fallen is the sequel to her 1997 release, Entwined. In it we meet another casualty of the Napoleonic wars and another MacLeod sister. This book had an interesting setting and premise and was well written, but somehow it never quite took off for me. Gabriel Loudon, the Earl of Rievaulx, was…
The Mystery Kiss is a sweet book with an absolutely adorable lead pair of lovers who are not the usual young miss and jaded rake of historical or traditional regency romance. Instead Atticus and Fleur are older, widowed and rather plain. The story they play in is a complicated mystery during which Atticus and Fleur…
Having read and enjoyed Juliana Garnett in the past, I requested this book and looked forward to reading it. This is one author who knows her medieval history, does her homework, and is capable of creating complex characters and interesting plots. A few chapters into The Knight, however, I began to suspect this particular effort…
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