Jayel Wylie’s 2001 debut novel, A Falcon’s Heart, was a wonderful surprise in the midst of a personal romance reading slump last year. It was a quintessential sleeper of a novel: a book from which I expected very little, having heard nothing about it or the author, and instead found myself swept up in a…
There’s something to be said for a writer who is able to embed choice bits of humor into her writing. Lynn Kurland takes a period not known for its humor (Chaucer aside) and imbues it with a light-heartedness that makes this version of the Medieval period a lot less dismal than most. From This Moment…
Perhaps anticipation got the better of me, but Moonlight and Shadow wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. The book is set during an incredibly interesting period of history involving the houses of Lancaster and York – a favorite period of history for me. Though Martyn’s use of historical figures greatly inhanced the story, which is…
In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you that I don’t read a lot of Medievals, so when you’re evaluating my evaluation of this book, I think that’s something you should consider. For, even though her behavior might have been reasonable within the constraints of her time, the heroine of The Bride Bed…
Deborah Hale’s Border Bride takes place along the border of Wales and England during the Crusades, Conwy ap Ifan is returning home after 13 years spent as a warrior in the Holy Land. Although happy to see his homeland, Con is there with another agenda. He is to speak with the Welsh lords on behalf…
Uncommon Vows is my favorite among Mary Jo Putney’s books, more romantic to me than even the wonderful Shattered Rainbows. Putney’s only medieval begins under the omen of an eclipse of the moon whose light is devoured by shadow on the night of a Christmas tragedy. Fifteen year old Adrian de Lancey, a nobleman’s youngest…
Ah, there’s nothing like a good conflict. I knew I had come upon a satisfying one when I read these lines in the second chapter: “Hell.” He barely breathed the word. He had been commanded to marry Genith, a sweet, innocent virgin. But he had almost made love last night to her older sister, Nesta….
I was absolutely charmed by Glynnis Campbell’s novella in last year’s A Knight’s Vow anthology, so I was eager to try her writing in longer form. While My Hero is not the worst book I’ve ever read, it was something of a let down. It features a priest hero with whom I was never quite…
George and the Virgin was exactly what I needed to read last weekend. It was fun. It was funny. It had only the teeniest, tiniest, most negligible bit of angst – just enough for character development. It has the honor of being the only book I’ve read for review this year where I did not…
There’s nothing tempting about Tempt Me With Kisses, at least at first glance. The cover is an ugly dried-blood color with an annoying half-unclad couple on it (the man has snaps on his shirt!), and the back blurb talks about bold warriors and flame-haired Scottish lasses. Ho-hum. But if you avert your eyes from the…
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