A Well Pleasured Lady is marvelous entertainment and is likely one of the best romances you will read this year. Christina Dodd, in her first book as a lead author for Avon, has proven amazing versatility in this romance set in 1793, and not the medieval period for which she is best known. This book…
When I was about sixteen, one of my sisters introduced me to Georgette Heyer’s work through Powder and Patch, a deliciously frothy Georgian. (Incidentally, I still have that copy, a PAN paperback that cost 2/6 — about a quarter. On the front, it describes the book as “A gay romance of the 18th century!)” Philip…
Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.” So begins one of the most beloved historical romances and my personal favorite. When it was first released in 1984, The Windflower was a revelation to me – a many-layered, multi-textured leap forward that set a new standard…
Anne Stuart’s Prince of Danger is so well written that it took me awhile to determine why I didn’t enjoy it as much as I could have. This author is an expert story-teller and it is easy to become caught up in her mastery. In fact, I whipped through the first half of this book…
I raced through the first third of this book on a tear, totally engrossed in the tale Kim Cates was telling, thinking to myself, “Goody! This one is going to be as good as Stealing Heaven!” Then I came to a critical scene. On one hand I applauded the author for handling it in a…
This book is vile. That, in a nutshell, is my review. For those whom those four words are not sufficient, I’ll expand my comments. Dream Lover is a nightmare, not a dream. This book opens with an oh-so-clever double entendre of a young woman riding a porpoise as though she were having sex with a…
After my glowing review of Kat Martin’s last release, Innocence Undone, I received an email from a reader who indicated I should be careful about glomming this author. I wish I had paid more heed to the warning that Martin’s writing tends to be uneven before jumping into Nothing But Velvet with such excitement. A…
With Tempting Kate, author Deborah Simmons has proven that she is a multiple personality author, capable of writing in more different styles than any other romance author this reviewer has read, In The Vicar’s Daughter, she wrote frothily, funnily, and sexily. In Taming the Wolf, she wrote dark, dank, and moody. In The Devil Earl…
The Book that Inspired Me to be a Writer* You don’t so much read The Williamsburg series aka “The Women of Williamsburg” as become a member of the family – the extended Day-Sprague-Campion family. The books follow family members through almost every significant event between the Revolutionary War and World War II. They are a…
Betina Krahn has written a romance that will delight the reader who enjoys a story about a demoiselle in distress. The Princess and the Barbarian is full of adventure and breathtaking love scenes. The author infuses the story with surprisingly humorous scenes, adding a fresh and invigorating appeal to the tale. Thera of Mercia is…
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