The conquering dark Norman warrior marrying the fair Saxon maiden by order of the King is not a new story, and despite a plot that could have come alive, this book sinks under leaden characters and much predictability. The story opens with William the Conqueror plotting to marry one of his knights to the heiress…
Claire Delacroix built her Bride Quest trilogy around three brothers and their individual attempts to find brides. In the third of these books, The Heiress, Rowan, the last unmarried of the three, attempts to win his brothers’ dare and marry the wealthiest heiress in Ireland before the Yule. The fact that Rowan lives in France…
Earlier this year I read and really liked The Charm School, and looked forward to its sequel. It’s my pleasure to report that I was not disappointed, and I don’t think you will be either. From start to finish, this story of a deeply wounded man and the woman who rescues his soul will pull…
So often, authors load their books with hot sex scenes that don’t seem to mesh with the rest of the story. But in The Seduction, Nicole Jordan deftly handles the tensions and emotions that such rampant sexuality can stir up without scrimping on sensuality. Vanessa Wyndham’s younger brother Aubrey has incurred an enormous debt while…
Joan Wolf has many devoted fans who will probably enjoy Golden Girl. However, unlike most of her previous books which were written in the first person, Golden Girl has abandoned that style and gone in the opposite direction, giving everybody, including even the lowliest stable hand, a point of view. My personal taste runs to…
I enjoy a good amnesia story – it’s interesting to see how an author serves up a fresh twist on an old cliché. Images in Scarlet uses amnesia to create a hero with a lot of vulnerability and sweetness, which is nice. Unfortunately, the the book doesn’t live up to its promise. Allison Caine encounters…
The hero of The Portrait is Jonas Whitaker, the leading artist of his day in New York City, 1855. Jonas is forced by his patron to take on as his student Imogen, “Genie,” Carter, his patron’s godchild. Genie’s out-of-state father, who wants to make her into an artist like her late sister, is behind this…
The Silver Coin is certainly not the worst book I’ve ever read, but on so many levels, it just didn’t work for me. While it is technically an historical romance, it has a strong suspense plot which is the focus of the entire book. Unfortunately, I found it boring and not at all suspenseful. Someone…
Dr. Caleb Chaney was such a nice guy that it was quite a pleasure to read how he transformed the frightened and wounded Ellie Parrish into the warmly loving woman she deserved to be. Caleb was not the sort of romance hero who is nice to everyone but the heroine, nor was he the sort…
The biggest disappointment I felt after reading this book was that it gave ill treatment to a character I had grown to love. In The Heiress Bride, the third and what I thought was the last installment of Coulter’s Bride trilogy, feisty, witty, irreverent Sinjun Sherbrooke gets plunged headfirst into a deep, gray well of…
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