I have to say that I approached Mr. Collins in Love with some degree of trepidation, because I’m not a fan of retellings, reimaginings or ‘variations’ (the market is awash with P&P ‘variations’ – Darcy is a pirate and Elizabeth his captive! (or vice versa), Elizabeth never went to Pemberley and is now a downtrodden…
After struggling a bit with the first book in this series, I decided to relax and accept the fact that this series features modern mysteries in historical clothing. Thus With a Kiss I Die is definitely a better experience than A Daughter of Fair Verona; I had great fun with it. But if you aren’t…
Katherine Lyons’ The Love Potion is her latest title and the first installment in her My Lady’s Potions series. It features lady’s companion and poor relation Kynthea Petrelli and Erasmus Oliver Arthur Stace, Duke of Harle. Kynthea has been forced to act as companion to her younger cousin since the death of her parents left…
To Sketch a Scandal is book four in Jess Everlee’s Lucky Lovers of London series, and returns readers to late Victorian London and the convivial safe space carefully carved out for the local queer community at the underground club, the Curious Fox. There are a couple of things that didn’t quite work for me, but…
What Happens in the Highlands bounces a healer off of a marquess and sees what sticks. The adventure is entertaining, the Georgian take on herbal healing fun, but a cliffhanger ending leaves the reader yearning for more. Smugglers are trying to make use of the isolated island home of Freya, Catriona “Cat” and Sorcha MacLeod….
When you’re as old as I am, a prompt like “back in my day” isn’t as easy to fulfil as it might seem. Yes, it offers a lot of scope, but that scope also makes it difficult to choose a book to fit, and for the same reason – too many “my day”s over too…
I read most – if not all – of the historical romances Virginia Heath wrote for Harlequin Historical, and gave several of them DIK grades. The stories were engaging, warm and funny, the characters were well-developed and the romances were sexy and full of chemistry. I lost track of her when she switched publishers, so…
This novella is the long-awaited story of Isolde and Isaiah and it’s full of passion and raw emotion. If you are a fan of Julie Anne Long’s books, especially the Pennyroyal Green series, this is a must read! I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it – it’s so good! The story is a…
Allie Therin’s inventive and entertaining Roaring Twenties Magic series comes to a rousing conclusion with Viscounts & Villainy, in which our heroes – upper-crust cynic and self-professed arsehole Wesley, Lord Fine, and “dangerous marshmallow” Sebastian de Leon – come face-to-face with probably their most dangerous (and unhinged) foe yet. This story links back to events…
Sarah Mallory’s A Kiss to Stop a Wedding is a charming, character-driven Regency romance featuring likeable, sensible leads in a slow-burn love story filled with longing and denial as they try to fight the impossible attraction growing between them. It’s well-written, engaging and very readable, with strongly characterised principals and secondary cast, and some lovely…
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