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…
Are you looking for some cozy, feel-good holiday reading? Johanna Lindsey’s latest book, Home for the Holidays is a pocket-size hard cover with a Currier and Ives-esque cover that just might tempt you to give yourself an early Christmas present. But beware: the hero is worse than Ebenezer Scrooge and the Grinch put together, and…
While reading Rainbow’s End by Rebecca Brandewyne, I mentally played a little game called “Who Would I Throttle?” Would it be the hero, who seems not to be able to perform sexually unless he threatens and dominates the heroine? Or would it be the heroine, who (to her mortification) loves him? Someone has been sabotaging…
Beauty Like the Night wins the Henry James Award for Endless, Redundant Internal Musing. It starts out delightfully enough with a witty narrative voice reminiscent of Heyer or Chase. It ends on the same charming, neo-classical note. In between, though, it sags under the weight of its own non-story, and no amount of engaging prose…
From reading some of the comments posted to the AAR Message Boards, I know that there are readers who miss the long leisurely historical romances that were the norm back in the days when Jennifer Wilde was writing. I cut my romance reading teeth on those and, while I do love a quick read, there…
The moment that Randall Clayton, the 7th Duke of Beldon, hears American Cait Harmon laughing, he knows that he wants her. This doesn’t surprise him. What does is the force of his emotions. The fact that she’s American is appealing to Rand because in his experience “American women didn’t seem to abide by the same…
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