There’s a period of mourning that goes along with finishing a Mary Jo Putney book. She’s one of the few authors whom I wish would write longer stories. The China Bride is no exception to this and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The prologue of The China Bride opens with the arrival of a strange Anglo-Asian…
I was entranced by this book. To begin with, the cover is as beautiful a one as I have seen in a long time. So often in the field of romance, the covers are full of shirtless men, and women who are falling out of their bodices. Winter Garden features a fully dressed man in…
I finished this book in one sitting, which is not a testament to its excellence, but rather the knowledge that if I put it down, I might never pick it up to finish it. There were many problems with this story, but most of them lead back to one thing. It has on of the…
I would not want to have paid full hardcover price for The Heir. It is not poorly written, but it is very dull, the characters are flat and I sometimes found myself in a trance as I read it – and not a pleasant one. I have placed The Heir in the regency period. I’m…
My Fair Lord as the name implies, is a reverse rendition of My Fair Lady. While this was a lighthearted and amusing read, certain elements of the plot were unnecessary and sometimes bogged down the story. I am normally a fan of paranormal elements, but in this case, the relationship between Caroline and Lucas was…
We all know the current trend: romance author hits the big time and scores a hardcover deal. Of course we’re thrilled that our favorite writer is finally garnering the attention she deserves, but secretly we cringe because we fear we’ve lost yet “another one” to mainstream fiction or gritty suspense. I’m sure most of you…
Winter Garden by Adele Ashworth is the sequel to Stolen Charms. Heroine Madeleine DuMais is a Mata Hari-type Frenchwoman spying for the English. Winter Garden brings her together with another English spy, Thomas Blackwood. Thomas has had Madeleine summoned to England ostensibly to help him with a smuggling investigation, but it is quickly obvious that…
The Reilly family was blessed by Druids with the ability to recognize moments of life-altering destiny. Bryan Reilly experiences the Blessing when a beautiful woman flings herself into his arms on the Limerick wharves and begs him to pretend to be her husband and save her and her children from danger. Bryan agrees, and collects…
With a title like Once Wicked, I was expecting something along the lines of a Susan Johnson historical. Luckily, it didn’t turn out to be that kind of a book, but I still found it a disappointing read. This is another historical that sounds and feels too much like a contemporary at a costume party,…
Connie Brockway provides a strong finish to her trilogy about the children of Ronald Merrick, the despicable Earl of Carr. This final installment centers on Carr’s daughter Fia, who has spent the last few years doing everything she can to escape her father’s influence, but fearing deep in her bones that she can never escape…
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