There is something about a romance featuring Scotland or a Scottish protagonist that makes this reviewer rub her hands together in anticipation. The Scotsman’s Bride is a thoroughly enjoyable way to spend an evening Cassandra St. John has just been dropped by her fiance and she truly does not understand why. Ramsay Forbes does; he…
“Oh, no,” I thought, when I got a copy of the uncorrected proofs for Sweeter than Wine. “Here’s a book that wasn’t good enough to be accepted by one of the mainstream publishers, and I have to slog through it.” I have rarely been more delighted to revise my initial impression. This is a marvelous…
This book was not just the king’s pleasure, but mine, too. However, while it is packed with historical detail and is too hot to handle, it is based on a silly Big Misunderstanding, which takes 350 pages to clear up. So, my pleasure was partially spoiled by intermittent grunts of frustration. In the 14th Century,…
Tracy Hill has not been blessed in love. And, during every one of her past eight lives, she has died in some freak accident. In 1320 her beloved accidentally rode her down, on the Titanic she drowned in a beer barrel before the ship even hit the iceberg; and in 1998 greasy fries caused a…
The Bridegroom is a pretty good read, but not as good as it could have been, not as good as it should have been. An intense romance between a revenge-driven hero and an ice princess suffers somewhat from a secondary romance that, while involving on its own, suffers somewhat from its own clichéd conflict. The…
Is there ever a point where a hero is so gosh darn awful that he becomes irredeemable? My tolerance for cruelty to a heroine by the hero is admittedly low, but the cruelty by the hero in The Bridegroom may even be too much for fans of this type of romantic device. Lady Regina Wharton…
For the three hours it took me to read this book, I was mesmerized. If the roof had fallen in, the rescue team would have found my body desperately grasping the book and facing the text. But the roof stayed in place and waking from my daze, I found myself in the middle of an…
I guess how you feel about The Runaway Princess is going to depend on what you are expecting when you pick it up. I expected a European Historical taking place “somewhere in The Pyrenees” in 1816. I didn’t get that. Not necessarily a bad thing; surprises can be very nice. But in this case, it’s…
Odd as it may sound, I can often judge how much I enjoyed a book by simply counting how many times I wanted to clobber the hero with his own boot. There’s just something about the alpha male. He’s maddening and sometimes amusing, but he has a heart of gold, and his redemption at the…
Sometimes a book you liked can confuse you terribly. What about this book kept it from earning keeper status from me? There was nothing really wrong and nothing truly not right, but I feel like The Forbidden Lord left me standing at a deserted bus stop, having just missed the late night express to a…
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