Scottish romances are one of my guilty pleasures. Though most I’ve read contain truly inaccurate views of history, there is just something about the place that draws me anyway. Though this novel has some significant weaknesses, the author does a wonderful job of conjuring up a magical setting, though the novel is also at times…
The medieval romance is such an endangered species that it needs all the advocates it can get. For that reason alone, I wish I could recommend Lady’s Choice. But what the subgenre really needs is good medievals, not merely competent, middling ones like this. On her sister Adela’s wedding day, Sorcha Macleod eagerly waits to…
Margaret MacDonald is two weeks away from her wedding day in Kathleen Givens’ On A Highland Shore when she finds her betrothed in bed with her best friend. Heartbroken, she swears she will not marry Lachlan, but he is cousin to King Alexander and her family needs the alliance her marriage will bring. Her father…
I picked A Moonlit Knight because it was described as having a medieval setting. If you’ve been reading our recent ATBF on historicals, just about anything that’s not set in England during the Regency has got to be better, right? Well, not so much. The back cover of Ms. Kelley’s book says it’s a medieval…
By sheerest coincidence I was just finishing Virginia Henley’s A Year and A Day when I received Infamous to review. The books were published eight years apart, and it seemed from the back cover blurb that this sequel was to have continued Marjory de Warenne’s romance with Robert Bruce after being forced (in the first…
Lately the Viking romance seems to be enjoying a renaissance of sorts and I, for one, could not be happier. While I would not want a steady diet of this time period (or a steady diet of any single time period for that matter), it is one that I enjoy and am glad to see…
I’m a sucker for tortured heroes and heroines, as well as rich, even intense, historicals, so Mary Reed McCall’s latest novel was a must-read for me. Her tale of love and healing set against the violent dissolution of the Templars is absolutely beautiful. There were a few minor irritants that kept it from being a…
Lucy Blue has gotten some good buzz on the our message boards and I’m happy to find that buzz warranted, for The Devil’s Knight is an exciting, great read. Rebel brigands attack the partially finished castle belonging to Tristan, a Norman nobleman, and because the peasants inside help them, they succeed in breaching the defenses….
Sisters Mathilde and Giselle are in need of a champion. Their father, Lord Ecclesford, recently died and their odious cousin Sir Roald de Sayre is on his way to take possession of the castle. After Roald’s last visit, when he seduced and then raped Mathilde, her father changed his will to cut out Roald and…
A strong, confident heroine is a good thing – if, that is, she’s intelligent and sensible enough that the choices she makes with such conviction are sound. But there are few things more aggravating than a character who is just as confident and forthright when pursuing actions that are foolish, unthinking, and objectionable. That, in…
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