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…
Listen carefully. That whirling sound you hear is Georgette Heyer spinning in her grave. Do you hate that dull historical stuff? Don’t know the difference between an annulment and a divorce and don’t want to? Do you wish that your historical heroines would act more like the characters on All My Children and less like…
Pinkerton agents are a fascinating part of American history, and yet they appear only rarely in historical fiction. Imagine my pleasure when I picked up Almost a Lady and found that the heroine is a Pinkerton agent who isn’t afraid to use her pistol and pearl-handled stiletto. Willow Hastings, as her name would suggest, is…
Jura is a small country whose sovereign, Prince Augustus, is determined that it remain independent and not be swallowed up by the Austrian Empire. He has fought on the side of Great Britain and the allies against Napoleon who had occupied Jura. Augustus forms an alliance with Great Britain – an alliance that is opposed…
While I’ve not read Jodi Thomas before, I have read reviews of her other books, including those in the related McClain series. All the reviews have been good (some have been great), giving me a pleasant sense of anticipation for Twilight in Texas. So it’s with no small amount of confusion that as I write…
The Fairy Tale Bride is the first book in a series about the large Fenster family. The heroine is charmingly optimistic, but the hero left me cold, not a terribly auspicious thing to say about a lead character in a romance novel. Miranda, the eldest Fenster daughter, is considered unmarriageable after having been ruined at…
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