Historical Romance

  • My Lord Destiny

    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…

  • Tame Me Not

    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…

  • Forbidden by Jo Beverley

    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,…

  • Kilgannon

    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 by Laura Kinsale

    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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