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…
So many authors, so little time. I’ve been hearing for years that Jo Beverley’s books were really good, but although I own some of them, The Dragon’s Bride is the first one I’ve read. While everyone else was waiting for Rothgar, I was off reading other things. Now I’m contemplating a trip to the bookstore…
I didn’t like The Dragon’s Bride, Jo Beverley’s latest, as much as I’d expected to based on her earlier books – Secrets of the Night is one of my favorite romances. Although I liked the hero, the heroine, the setting, and the plot, I was plagued by a nagging sense of disbelief as regards the…
In any romance, there must be conflict between the hero and heroine. That law is as immutable as the HEA ending. This book has a conflict that’s completely silly, but that’s not really what bothers me. What bothers me is that it breaks the less-known rule, coined by my fellow reviewer Marianne Stillings: Do the…
Irish Hope is the story of a young woman’s search for true love. It would have been nice had the author made better use of the promising setting, but she seemed to settle instead for oft-used plot devices and plenty of predictibility. The Hope in the title is Lady Hope, who, as the book begins,…
Up until halfway through this book, I thought I had a Desert Isle Keeper on my hands. The characters were engaging, the plot intriguing. Then one of my most hated plot devices entered: the hero creates for himself a new identity through the use of a partial mask, even though the heroine has already seen…
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