For most of Anne of Fenwyck’s life she has resided at Artane. And for almost as long, Anne has been in love with Robin of Artane, the eldest son. Robin, for his part is also in love with Anne. When the two are young, Robin falls ill and Anne has an accident that permanently injures…
Shana Abé tends to write a kind of romance that I generally avoid like the plague, what I like to call the “Adversarial Romance.” When she writes them, I don’t seem to be bothered by the “I hate you but want to bonk you” interactions, big misunderstandings, and revenge and/or established enmity that typifies her…
Some romances are like a two-humped camel. They start off on a high, sag in the middle, improve again at the end but all the while they move at a rather predictable pace. Such was the case with Shana Abé’s Intimate Enemies. Lauren MacRae is de facto head of the Clan MacRae on the Island…
I don’t think I “get” Sandra Lee. I got the impression this book was supposed to be an amusing romp, but it just felt like a great dull bore to me. Lady Roscelyn of Cyning has just lost her father, brothers, and new husband in the battles against the Norman invaders. Now a Norman Lord…
His Wicked Promise is the literary equivalent of a K-Tel album. It’s not horrible or anything, but it reads like a rehash of the “greatest hits” of several authors. You may not have read this book yet, but you have certainly read most of what’s in it somewhere else before, and more than once. Glenda…
My Lord de Burgh, Deborah Simmons’ fifth in this series of seven brothers, has many things going for it: Stephen, the most handsome of the de Burgh brothers; Brighid, a beautiful, strong-willed heroine; a bit of magic; a bit of mystery; and a sweetly satisfying ending. While this is not the best in the series…
Mothers will do anything to protect their children, and this instinct is at the heart of The Countess. Eglantine de Crevy, married and widowed twice, has responsibility for three girls. There’s her stepdaughter Alienor, her daughter Jacqueline (both from her first marriage), and from her second marriage is baby Esmeraude, distraught and inconsolable now that…
When reading books connected in a series, I’ve noticed a problem with consistency for a lot of authors. One of the books will be wonderful, another merely okay, and another, disappointing. I have not read On Bended Knee, the book connected to this one, but from the review of it, it sounds like it was…
Ach. When will authors learn th’ a wee bit o’ dialect goes a lang, lang wee? Ta try ta read a bluidy book where awl te dialogue is in brogue is nay ‘n easy task, ye ken. And after a wee while, ya jest want ta poot ta book dun and give’t up entirely. Ya…
For fans who yearn for a medieval book in which the characters do historically accurate things like believe in God, Candice Proctor’s The Last Knight could be the answer to a prayer. In a refreshing change of pace, heroine Attica d’Alerion seems to be a product of her times rather than a transplanted Valley girl….
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