Pirate stories are amongst the more maligned in the field of romance novels, so when I got a chance to review this offering by Marti Phillips, I jumped at the chance, hoping to find a rare gem among the stereotypical Pirate books out there. Alas, it was not to be. Adrian Wolfe is a feared…
Maggie Osborne is one of those authors that doesn’t always get a lot of attention, even though she consistently produces high quality books. Her characters are rarely rich or flashy; in fact, her heroes and heroines are often misfits who have never even dreamed that they might find romance. Louise “Low” Downe, the heroine of…
A Springwater Christmas is a warm-hearted, rather sweet and predictable tale about acceptance, love and forgiveness that will get you in the holiday spirit. If you’ve read the previous books in the Springwater series, you’ll no doubt be thrilled with the reappearance of these fertile ladies and their numerous offspring. But if you’re like me…
I have read all of Jane Feather’s books from the ’90s and some from the ’80s. This book is her finest because she goes into her material with a depth and complexity her other books lack. While all of her books are entertaining, this one is not only entertaining, it’s thought-provoking. Tarquin is a handsome…
Since A Heart Untamed is published under the Jove Friends Romance line, it is not surprising that friendship is a major theme in this book, which was co-written by Sherri Eddington and Donna Smith under the pseudonym Adrienne Burns. Rural Kansas in the late 1800s is the setting for this tale of four friends who…
Some romances are like popcorn – a light snack before you move onto something more substantial. Others are wonderful confections with spun sugar or air inside. And some are more substantial treats, where it’s not just what you are tasting but how you partake of it. If I had to equate reading My False Heart…
The Wild Rose of Kilgannon is part two of a set of novels centered around the 1715 Jacobite uprising. It’s important to know that it is not just a sequel; it’s a continuation of the same story. So if you are interested in reading it, you absolutely must start with the first book for this…
The Least Likely Bride is the third in Jane Feather’s trilogy about three seventeenth-century English friends who, as girls, make a pact that they will never marry. (The second, The Accidental Bride, is a Desert Island Keeper.) This wonderfully enjoyable romance tells the story of the youngest of the three, bookish Olivia Granville, who wants…
Romance novels, by their very nature, are prone to repetition. There are certain conventions, like the HEA ending, the London Season, and the arranged marriage, that you see again and again. It’s a joy to find a novel that uses these conventions in a fresh and interesting way. Regrettably, Highland Spirits is not one of…
The Pygmalion myth gave George Bernard Shaw the idea for his play Pygmalion which was turned into the wonderful musical My Fair Lady. Judith Ivory takes this story and gives it a twist, (and a lot more romance than grumpy old GBS did). Edwina Bollash, linguistics expert and tutor of gauche young ladies in the…
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