Mary Balogh’s new book Thief of Dreams is an historical novel set in the Georgian period. When the book begins, Cassandra Havelock is preparing to celebrate her twenty-first birthday, come out of mourning for her father, take her place as mistress of Kedelston, and assume the title, Countess of Worthing. She has no pressing need…
Texas Glory begins five years after the conclusion of Texas Destiny. The events in that book are cleverly woven into the story line of Texas Glory, so it is not necessary to have read it to understand this one, but trust me, you do want to read Texas Destiny. Dallas Leigh’s dream is beginning to…
Well, no matter how hard I try to avoid it, I seem to run across somebody’s opinion on a book I’m reviewing. I try my best to ignore other reviews until I’ve had a chance to read the book myself, but I still hear a lot of comments such as, “this is an A book,”…
If you are fond of romances that are driven by “the big misunderstanding” then you will probably enjoy Threads of Destiny. It is a book filled with passion, history, deception, intrigue, and good folk and bad folk, but mostly it is about two people who refuse to be honest with each other and yet find…
The Gamble is a book that starts out with an intriguing premise, sets up some interesting characters, abruptly has the heroine make several blatantly stupid moves to keep the plot going, then unravels completely at the end. Too bad, too. Joan Wolf writes very appealing characters, and I had been looking forward to this book….
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…
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