Every couple of weeks I request a new set of books for review. Sometimes I’ve read other books by an author on the list or have heard about them. Many times I just pick based on the brief description. It leads to some pretty interesting discoveries – some good, some bad. This time around I’ve…
When early in a book the hero is thinking, “He rather liked this woman. Pig snout and all,” you know you’re in for a fun read. I also liked that along with the 17th Century Versailles setting, our hero and heroine were the palace gardener and a maid. About halfway through the book, however, you…
Master of Desire is a book that really grew on me as I read it. I opened it expecting an ultra-cheesy medieval (I mean, come on, look at the title) and it is pretty cheesy, especially at first. But while no one is going to confuse it with a Madeline Hunter medieval, it’s not a…
Eva Ibbotson is not a prolific writer, but to to her fans, her books are all cherished treasures and they love each and every one of them. Magic Flutes is Ibbotson’s second novel, and showcases all of what her fans love about her writing. Guy Farne was found by mere chance wrapped in sacking on…
In Claire Delacroix’s latest offering, The Beauty, we find both a wounded hero and a wounded heroine whose experiences have shaped them into bitter, frightened people. Jacqueline De Crevy has been frightened of men ever since she was almost raped by her former fiancé. She is a beautiful woman who is tired of men not…
When I came back to romance in the early ’90’s, finding a good read was something of a hit-or-miss proposition for me. Back then, there was nothing like this site to help me find a well-written romance, so I spent a lot of time in used-book stores, picking up anything that looked remotely interesting. Needless…
On his way to fight in the Crusades, fifteen-year-old squire Royce de Warrene finds a young girl hiding after the brutal murder of everyone on a French estate. Calling herself Ana and saying nothing more, Royce assumes she’s the peasant daughter of the miller slain nearby. He therefore gives her over to the care of…
Want something rich? You can go out and buy a couple of pounds of Godiva chocolate, you can splurge on a new car, you can hook up with Donald Trump (on second thought, forget that), or if like me, you are counting your pennies, you can buy A Woman of Virtue and have a richly…
As you may guess from the title, these stories all have heroes who are younger than their heroines. Intriguing, to say the least, I thought, and for the most part I wasn’t disappointed.
One day I was in the bookstore staring at the shelf containing the JD Robb books. It’s almost as though, if I stood there long enough and stared hard enough, an Eve and Roarke adventure I hadn’t read would magically appear. No such luck. Fortunately, there was a series of books next to them with…
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