There must be something romantic about hopeless endeavors – how else can you explain the popularity of movies like Titanic, where you know going in that the boat’s going to sink? Or the multitude of books set during the Scottish rebellion of 1745-6, where you know before you crack the book open that the English…
Reviewer’s Note: The first chapter of this book builds up to an early surprise some might consider to be a spoiler. If Dodd’s previous work and my word are enough: this is a good book. If not, read on at your own risk, but don’t say you weren’t warned. Calling all Gothic fans – the…
What a good writer Judith Ivory is! The Indiscretion neatly divides into two parts, and if I could have graded simply the first part, it would have been an A+. It is in this part of the book that main characters Sam Cody and Lydia Bedford-Browne are forced to spend time on the moors in…
Passing Fancies is one of my all-time favorite romances. Elizabeth Mansfield has written more than thirty Regency Romances over the years, but in my opinion, this one is her very best. It’s one of the few books I have that I would run into my burning house to save. But luckily for me, it has…
Return with me to the early days of the historical romance where all the men were handsome, arrogant and shirtless, all the women were blindingly beautiful and oh so feisty, and the prose was so purple you could have used the ink to dye your Easter eggs. If that’s your cup of Earl Grey –…
When I closed this book, I found myself shaking my head, wondering how the idea of what constitutes a good romance could possibly vary so widely. My idea of a good romance: the couple meets, gets to know each other, and falls in love. The author’s idea: the couple meets, the hero kidnaps the heroine…
In all honesty, I was never able to lose myself in this book. Why that was, I just don’t know. Perhaps it began with the cover – a slick looking guy with a poufy perm. Perhaps there were simply too many characters in the story (brothers and cousins and sons, oh my!). Perhaps the premise…
7B was my first Stella Cameron, and I found the premise intriguing. A single woman wishes to have a child and decides to ask her dearest male friend to be the father. There have been movies with a similar plot, but this is the first time I’ve seen it set in the 1800s. Unfortunately, instead…
Suzanne Robinson’s latest novel, The Legend, re-introduces us to some familiar characters, namely The Hero Who Can’t Let Himself Love Again and The Heroine Who Is Supposed To Be Intelligent But Is Really A Nitwit, here played by Galen de Marlowe and Honor Jennings. There are admittedly some new twists: He’s clairvoyant and she’s a…
Christina Kingston is an author who shows promise, but this particular book doesn’t quite deliver the goods. It had a lot going for it – and interesting plot, likable characters, and even a lovely title. But sometimes the devil is in the details, and that’s where this one bogs down. Lady Katherine often feels like…
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