Always

I was very excited to review Lynsay Sands’ newest release. Her novel The Key is one of my favorite funnies, and I also enjoyed her anthology piece in Five Gold Rings. But despite a promising start, Always falters under the weight of too-familiar characters and plot developments. Aric of Burkhart has just discovered his fiancee…

The Sword and the Flame

I finished this book in one sitting, which is not a testament to its excellence, but rather the knowledge that if I put it down, I might never pick it up to finish it. There were many problems with this story, but most of them lead back to one thing. It has on of the…

The Marriage Prize

Virginia Henley has been writing historical romance since the early 1980s. She continues to write the larger-than-life, old-style romance she is famous for. For this reviewer, The Marriage Prize features a potentially engaging plot that is undermined by prose that can only be described as the deepest purple, a hoydenish and defiant heroine who tosses…

The Maiden Bride by Linda Needham

The Maiden Bride takes place during a sad and frightening period in history. During the fourteenth century, the Black Death ravaged the countryside, decimating the populations of villages, estates and monasteries. Thousands upon thousands of peasants, tradesmen, and crafts people died. Labor was short and in many places there simply were not enough people to…

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