Romances set in the regency period are being written more and more with strong heroines (the only kind of heroine, to my thinking), and Joan Wolf has certainly done her share to promote this change. The heroine in The Gamble is a great example of a strong heroine. Part of the time. I hate to…
Whether or not you take the bet on Laura Parker’s The Gamble depends on how tortured and difficult to love you like your heroes. Because Viscount Darlington, scarred both inside and out by a brutal father, is about as tortured and difficult to love as a hero can get. The book opens when he kills…
If the game of love for Honoria Wetherby and Devil Cynster is best described as an irresistible force meeting an immovable object, then the biggest question would have to be: Who is the immovable object and who is the irresistible force? Both characters are truly fascinating and completely well-matched. Honoria’s and Devil’s clash of wills,…
I love the Victorian period as much as a lot of romance readers love the Regency period. True, the Victorian age was not as glittering and outwardly colorful as the Regency, but it was a dynamic time full of change, especially for women, and it marked the zenith of the British Empire. I started Never…
Beauty and the Beast stories are favorites with many readers of romance novels. There is just something about the whole premise that lends itself to romance and resonates with readers in a way that other fairy tale archetypes do not. Ravished is a touching and often funny Beauty and the Beast story set in Regency…
Have you ever watched a school play? The kind where inexperienced but passionate actors tromp from one set spot to another, and then stop and give exaggerated speeches, only to move on to the next spot? I never before thought that this could be done in a book, and then I read The Nightingale’s Song….
Well, I have to say that I liked Ward better than I liked Jake, but this series still lacks the spark of the Seven Brides series. I feel like I’m going to harp here but again, Ward lacks tension; it lacks some real interest to get things going, and this does not bode well for…
Jake Maxwell has just returned from the Civil War to find his family’s land stolen and his cattle scattered all over Texas. While Jake was off fighting for what he believed in, mean-spirited and greedy farmers have destroyed what he had set out to build. Now they want Jake to pay reparations for the damage…
Well, now those people who like a soft, sensitive, sweet hero – beware!! Philip Evelyn Desborough Hawksbury, Earl of Rothermere, better known as Hawk by his military friends, is about as arrogant and devilish as they come. I loved him. Especially since he met his match in this book with young, headstrong Frances Kilbracken. Watching…
Calypso Magic is a truly incredible book chock full of suspense and spice and hilarity. The characters are outrageously witty and the pacing is so fast you can’t bear to put the book down until you reach the last page – and then you’re so disappointed it’s all over. Coulter is an absolute master at…
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