A great book is a always a welcome find but one recommended by a friend is even better. My Love, My Enemy is this kind of book. When her name was first mentioned to me, I thought, “Jan Cox Speas – who”? Now I think, “Jan Cox Speas – great author”! Everything about her writing…
The book I began my keeper shelf with was Once an Angel. Rereading it, I found out why. Seamless, lyrical prose (Medeiros is truly a word artist), an unconventional setting, touches of magic realism, and a hero and heroine who need each other so deeply, I felt the world might end if they couldn’t be…
Readers who are familiar with The Scarlet Pimpernel will undoubtedly recognize the main elements in The Black Knave: A seemingly foppish, ineffectual young nobleman fools everyone around him, including his wife, into thinking he could never be the man responsible for aiding in the escape of persons threatened with execution by a merciless authority. Only…
Virginia Henley has been writing historical romance since the early 1980s. She continues to write the larger-than-life, old-style romance she is famous for. For this reviewer, The Marriage Prize features a potentially engaging plot that is undermined by prose that can only be described as the deepest purple, a hoydenish and defiant heroine who tosses…
Even though lack of period feeling in medieval and regency romances sometimes annoys me, I can understand it. Those times and places are far from our present thoughts. The history is not taught in American high schools. The thought processes are foreign, and historical errors are easily overlooked by the reader unless she is a…
The Wolf and the Dove challenges the very boundaries of love and war and proves there lays but a fine line between conquered and conqueror. Norman knight and victor, Wulfgar easily ousts cruel Ragnor and takes authority over Darkenwald and the beauty who possesses a provocative courage. Courage, he believes, that is rarely matched by…
Overly arrogant bossy heroes, flawless in face and body and always wealthy beyond belief, rarely appeal to me. In fact, they usually annoy me pretty quickly. When I discovered that the hero of Potent Charms fit all of these qualifications and then some, I groaned aloud at what I was convinced would be a torturous…
St. John Thornton, better known as Sinjun, is being forced to marry against his will. He’s fourteen, and his bride is a mere child of seven, and she’s just as happy to be marrying him – as she demonstrates with a couple of kicks to his shins. Fortunately for Sinjun, after the ceremony he can…
On a Long Ago Night is the type of romance you can really sink your teeth into. It’s lush, exotic, and passionate – in a good way. It’s primarily set in England in 1838 (around the time of Queen Victoria’s coronation), but there are frequent flashbacks to Algiers in 1830. Partly because so much of…
Some authors can take the most bizarre, unbelievable scenarios and make them work. When you’re really involved in a story you can actually believe that a kidnapped woman could fall in love with her captor or that someone could walk through a mirror and emerge in another century. You have to be careful with outrageous…
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