The Star-Crossed Bride is melodramatic, illogical, and more than a little silly. On the other hand, it is somehow strangely compelling. For some reason the plot drew me in even though it made little sense, and I was curious about these characters, even though I didn’t particularly like them. Valentine Fenster and Emily Weatherley fell…
I don’t often have insomnia, but when I do, I look on it as an opportunity to read. Sometimes if the book is sufficiently dull, it puts me right back to sleep. This was not the case with Gallant Waif and I did something I haven’t done in a long time. I read it right…
While reading Susan King’s 2000 release, The Stone Maiden, I fell in love with her lyrical writing and her historical intricacy, and eagerly awaited The Swan Maiden, the next in the series. Fans won’t be disappointed – King’s trademark style and beautifully realized settings are back. However, most will find the heroine a bit difficult…
Silver Wind by Linda Cook sets a rather nice romance against the backdrop of political intrigue and danger in twelfth-century Wales. Although I liked the setting and both protagonists, the serpentine and confusing story ultimately left me a little cold. Adeline is the daughter of a Welsh chieftain, Caerdoc, who has been known to cause…
A Man of Steel is a medieval romance set in northern England in the fourteenth century. Camilla is a widow indebted to the sheriff Godric and she’s promised to marry Godric’s son Risby – sight unseen. Risby is expected to arrive any time, but before he arrives, Godric’s castle gets another visitor, Sir Stevyn Strongbow….
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 –…
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