This is one of those uneven books that is at times quite interesting, but suffers from the proverbial sagging middle. It starts well and ends well, but in between there are some boring parts that I had to force myself to get through. The result is a very average read. Gavan St. Aldan is the…
Mended Hearts is from the Quilting Romance line of books from Jove – historical romances that contain quilting as a story element. Handmade quilts have long been a symbol of home, warmth, and love. But can quilts also predict marital happiness? Some of the inhabitants of Apple Grove, Iowa believe so, and this is the…
Remember the TV show Mystery Science Theatre 3000, the one where two robots sat around with their human friend Joel and wisecracked their way through the cheesiest science-fiction movies ever made? It was the only way anybody could stand to watch those films. Reading Wings of Destiny, I kept wishing desperately that Tom Servo and…
When Stephanie Laurens wrote Devil’s Bride, she seemed to take the romance world by storm. Lots of people (including myself) loved it. Others didn’t, but it seemed like almost everyone read it. By now, most people have formed an opinion on the Bar Cynster Series. If you didn’t care for the preceding books, then you…
I first picked up Desire’s Blossom when I was ten years old. I was curious about the books with the ugly covers that my sister loved so much. I chose Desire’s Blossom because I read from the back cover blurb that it was partially set in China. I didn’t read another romance book for six…
I got off on the wrong foot with Tame Me Not, and unfortunately, I suspect that a lot of other people will as well. The book starts off with Mignonne Saint-Sylvestre, a teenage heroine finishing up a night of work as a “highwayman.” Mignonne, it seems is your basic too-feisty-to-live heroine. Like many tomboy types…
I’ve read beautiful heroines and I’ve read plain ones but Jo Beverley did something in Forbidden that I’ve never encountered. She wrote a beautiful heroine who is pitiable precisely because she is so magnificent looking. This is some trick, but it’s not as hard to believe as one first thinks. Regardless of age or beauty,…
Get out the handkerchiefs ladies, this is a good one! Joe’s Wife is a three hanky read in the best sense. It’s a marriage of convenience story between a widow from a good family and a man who is the son of the town whore. When Tye Hatcher came home from the Civil War, no…
It can be hard to resist the siren song of a brand new Scottish romance sitting on the book store shelf. Kilgannon is one of those meaty books with a sexy Scottish hero who says things like “Ye ken?” and “Aye, lass.” I have a soft spot for such heroes myself, and I did like…
Midsummer Moon is one of the greatest, unacknowledged romantic comedy novels and a true Desert Isle Keeper. Of course, it’s written by Laura Kinsale, queen of the Dark, Tormented Romance, so a laff-out-loud book isn’t quite the first thing you’d expect from her. Ransom Falconer, Duke of Damerell, is looking for an eccentric, cranky old…
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