I am one picky reader. I want humor. I want passion. I want two very strong people who respect themselves and each other. I don’t often find a book where I get all these things. Lucky me – I picked up Daring as a spur-of-the-moment purchase, and found a book that has all of these…
Petals on the River harkens back to an earlier time in romance. It’s long, involved, bloody, and purple. Author Woodiwiss has an eye for detail and a flare for capturing human emotion, but she writes like she did 20 years ago. Unfortunately, most of us have since moved on. This would have been a much…
Rebel Spies, royal ancestors, and a marriage of convenience. Beverly Jenkins’s Through the Storm is a typical romance with a few twists. I liked the interactions between the characters but I did not like the way Jenkins presented historical facts. Sable Fontaine was born a slave on a southern plantation. Her mother was repeatedly raped…
Conversation and dialogue. . . Julia Quinn’s To Catch an Heiress reminded me of a screenplay because the entire book seemed to be a conversation between two or three characters. I’ve been very satisfied with Quinn’s earlier novels, so I was puzzled with my dissatisfaction after reading this one. I flipped through one of her…
Julia Quinn is an author known for her lighthearted, humorous romances. To Catch an Heiress definitely fits that description, with a touch more angst, making for a more involved read. Caroline is almost twenty-one – the age that she gains control of her inheritance and is finally free from the last of a long list…
Irresistible is very nearly so. While its flawless descriptions of life in Regency England are effectively combined with an intriguing romance, it misses the mark in this way. Regency norms and morés dictated a strict limit to the range of emotions people were allowed to openly express. When these same constraints are applied to writing…
Although I would be hard-pressed to say this is one of the best romance novels ever written, I will say that I enjoyed it enough to lose sleep over it. I started reading it at ten o’clock at night and didn’t quit until I finished it in the wee hours of the morning. The best…
Her Norman Conqueror just missed being a really great read. New author Malia Martin gets lots of points for refreshing, innovative ideas, and a truly wonderful Part I. Unfortunately, Parts II and III don’t hold up as well. Even so, I think this is a new author to keep your eye on. Lady Aleene of…
If the first thing you look at after you pick up this book is the back cover – ignore it. Did men have hair like that back then? The roses and tiara on the front cover have nothing to do with the story, either, but someone must have thought they looked pretty. Be assured that…
Have you ever put off writing something until the last minute and turned in your rough draft? Maybe it was promising, and maybe it had potential, but it still needed a lot of work. That, in a nutshell. describes When Dreams Come True. The problem is that what you are reading is the final draft,…
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