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…
Be careful what you ask for; you might get it. My number one complaint about many romances I have read and reviewed is lack of editing. If only they had been disciplined, polished and given all that surface shine they richly deserve they would have been so much better. Princess is the opposite: a book…
Dawnflight tells the story of how Guinevere and Arthur met. Only this isn’t the Guinevere of legend. She is Gyanhumara (Gyan), the chieftainess of a fierce Pictish clan. Unlike the Brytoni women, Gyan wears clan tattoos and knows how to use a sword. To fulfill a treaty, Gyan must marry Urien, the son of a…
Of Noble Birth is not bad so much as it is thoroughly, horribly depressing. This is a romance with an hea ending, something I had to remind myself repeatedly just to get through the book. Murphy’s Law works overtime here, because until they reach the ending, everything that happens to the characters is awful, and…
First published in 1989 as a Regency, this rewrite of The Would-Be Widow brings us the story of a beautiful and wealthy young woman who weds a dying soldier in order to secure her inheritance. This is an intriguing premise for a love story, especially since the man in question suddenly makes a complete recovery…
Wow! Not only is this the best book in Jill Barnett’s Medieval series, this is the best Barnett book I’ve read, period. To be fair, I’ve yet to read Bewitching, which is a favorite with many. Nevertheless, this book is a real stand-out. It has an epic quality which I loved, a very special heroine,…
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