I have to hand it to Candace Camp: she’s a terrific writer. It was only after I’d finished reading A Stolen Heart that I realized it was based on a preposterous premise and contained a couple of elements that would have caused me to roll my eyeballs in exasperation if a writer with lesser skills…
We’ve come a long way since the Middle Ages, thankfully. Part of what made this plot work, as well as what I disliked, was the historical male perspective about women. Faith, daughter of Lord Terra, has been shamed and outcast from her home. She was attacked by a man and left scarred on her face,…
Devil’s Wager is the third in a trilogy by Mary Spencer (following Dark Wager and Lady’s Wager). Set in England during the Regency period, Devil’s Wager is Lad’s story, who was introduced to us in the earlier books. Lad, an American who has his own prosperous property in Tennessee, has inherited an impoverished English earldom…
How To Kiss A Hero opens when two old friends, Mrs. Treadwell and the Countess d’Oliveri, meet for lunch. The Countess left England under a scandal and has lived more than 20 years on the Continent. She has been the mistress of a man whom she loved but was unable to marry. On her lover’s…
The Scotland of Lynsay Sands’ Sweet Revenge bears about as much relation to real Scottish geography, history, and dialect as the Greece of Xena, the Warrior Princess does to actual ancient Greece. Like Xena, when this setting and the characters within it are used for laughs and very light entertainment, it can work. Unfortunately, the…
I have always meant to pick up a Kat Martin book, but life moves in mysterious ways and somehow I never did – which is why I am now so glad that I got to review Silk and Steel, a sequel to Nothing but Velvet. If you prefer the kind of book where you can’t…
All of us know someone who by rights should not be our friend. You know who I mean – the high-school classmate with the outrageous behavior, the co-worker whose logic (or lack of it!) drives you crazy, the girlfriend who exhibits too-stupid-to-live qualities. And yet these people have a certain charisma, a charm to them,…
Cat and the Countess starts out on a winning note but soon becomes yet another victim of the “too much plot/way too little romance” school of writing. The first scene is really an attention grabber: “As a rule, Niankwe “Wildcat” MacInnes never posed much objection to a woman putting her hand down his pants. In…
This was a pleasant enough read until page 175. Sure, the heroine had some problems, but what happened after page 175 was enough to throw me completely out of the book and say to myself, “the author isn’t really going to go there, is she?” Lord William Claridge, who is brother to a duke, has…
All Smiles is the first novel I’ve ever read by hugely popular author Stella Cameron. I was looking forward to it, but my hopes were almost immediately crushed. I have a lot to say about this book, so I’ll try to keep my plot summary short. When Meg Smiles’s minister father died, she was left…
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