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…
Historical romances often seem to exist in a vacuum. Generally the writer seldom bothers with the social attitudes and problems of the society at large. After a reader has finished an historical novel, she does know a bit about the manners and mores of the ton, but what of the world outside that little closed-in…
Could you forgive a man who eloped with another woman while engaged to you? This is one of the thorny problems tackled in Sarah’s Christmas, and Elizabeth Graham manages to convince me it could happen, even when the individuals involved are both incredibly stubborn and proud. Hunter Winslow is returning home to Little Bethlehem, Missouri…
Texas Destiny is a Beauty and the Beast story, a road romance, and quite possible the most tear-inducing book I have ever read in my life. I’ve often thought if I could get a copy into the hands of all the fans of romance novels and then buy stock in the companies that make hankies,…
Cerise Lindsay has finished her art schooling, thanks to her older sister Maddie. Unfortunately, Maddie never knew what a wonderful artist her sister became because Maddie “accidentally” died. Risa is not convinced that the boating mishap was truly an accident because Maddie was an excellent sailor, even on rough waters. Risa desperately needs to discover…
She’s come a long way, baby! That’s the first thought I had when I began reading His Wicked Ways. I first read and reviewed Samantha James in 1996. The book was Just One Kiss and while it featured some deft characterizations, it also featured angry, manipulative sex, as well as very cruel behavior toward the…
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