If an author has done her job, I will be swept away into another world and introduced to people I would like to know in real life, and when I leave this fictional world I will have been moved in some way. With The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn has most definitely done her…
“Richness” is the word that comes to mind when I think of By Design. This is what happens when an author comes along and takes something familiar – the medieval setting – and brings it to the next level. A proud young woman stands selling her crafted pottery and statues, her poise setting her apart…
This book has everything it needs to be a success and yet it left me feeling disconnected. In fact, there’s very little I could point out as being intrinsically wrong with the book, and yet it didn’t work. How’s that for a vague statement? The “everything it needs” includes: Heroine – Beth Simmons, an appropriately…
I was bit worried when I started hearing all the positive word of mouth for this book, because when I had skimmed it initially, I hadn’t wanted to dive right in. I was pleasantly surprised to discover The Duke definitely deserves its buzz. Robert Knight, the Duke of Hawkscliffe, is called the Paragon Duke. Robert…
“The Ferryman was dead.” It’s a great first sentence, including, as it does, tragedy, mystery, and a touch of humor. Just what’s needed to grab a reader’s attention and pull them into a story. And like Julia Quinn and Julie Garwood, Patricia Cabot knows how to infuse the rest of her book with all three….
Waiting For You made me wait. Wait for the characters to grow up. Wait for the native warrior mentioned in the blurb to appear. Wait to get into the romance. The novel starts with a lengthy description of the childhoods of the hero and heroine in a crumbling mansion. Jack is the heir of an…
In The Viscount Who Loved Me, the second book in Julia Quinn’s series about the Bridgerton siblings (following The Duke and I), we meet Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sheffield. Anthony has determined at last to marry, but for reasons of his own, he doesn’t want to risk his heart. He sets out to court Kate’s…
This was a very hard book for me to judge. The story was less than compelling, the characters failed to engage my sympathy, and there was a huge red herring thrown into the mix. And yet…some of the writing was so well done that it kept me going, and I had to feel sorry it…
Like many other authors, Catherine Coulter used to be on my must read list, and now falls somewhere just below that list. Sometimes I’ve slowed down on authors because my reading tastes changed and other times it was because the books became too much like their predecessors. I think Catherine Coulter falls somewhere in both…
A Dangerous Love is the first in what is promised to be a trilogy featuring three sisters known as the Swanlea Spinsters. It centers on the middle daughter, Rosalind. Usually the mention of spinster sisters in a regency (historical or traditional Regency) is enough to make me a little leery. Regency romance spinsters aren’t unwed…
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