Phillipa de Paris is a scholar, and the illegitimate daughter of Baron Gui de Beauvais, who finds herself on the wrong end of a dagger one night after attending a lecture. She’s holding the dagger, mind you, and is pointing it at her opponent, but Hugh of Wexford can only shake his head at the…
Do you remember the first really good medieval romance you read? How it completely captivated you and swept you away to another time and place, how you felt as if you were in the moment? It may have been a Jude Deveraux, or a Julie Garwood, or perhaps it was another author but you get…
For a time, I could feel the mist on my face, smell the clean, cool air of Scotland, and hear the voice of the bard as he spun his tales. The sheer beauty of the legends, beliefs, and majesty of Scotland jump from the pages of this book. Very rarely does a book absorb me…
Over Christmas vacation I had the delightful experience of finding a book that I will always keep and remember. It was Karyn Monk’s Surrender to a Stranger, a wonderful book set in England and Paris during the revolution. Imagine my delight when I discovered that this author had a new book coming out. Wow. I…
The Mistress of Rosecliffe succeeds in providing plenty of Medieval flavor set against the backdrop of the Welsh-English conflict. This well written tale, with an interesting although familiar plot, makes for the final installment in Rexanne Becnel’s Rosecliffe trilogy. Isolde FitzHugh is determined not to marry the uninspiring man her father has chosen for her;…
If you’re looking for action, intrigue and non-stop adventure and love the atmosphere of the Scottish Highlands, The Virgin Spring may be just what you’re looking for. But if you prefer your romances to concentrate on the love story, you’d be better off looking elsewhere. Gilcrest Davidson Mackintosh feels unfit to be the new laird…
According to an ancient royal decree, the prosperous land of Alderich will be passed from the Rune family to their rivals, the Leonhart clan, in the year 999. Serath, the last direct descendant of Jozua Rune, lord of Alderich, is abducted two of months prior to the beginning of the new millenium while she is…
We’ve come a long way since the Middle Ages, thankfully. Part of what made this plot work, as well as what I disliked, was the historical male perspective about women. Faith, daughter of Lord Terra, has been shamed and outcast from her home. She was attacked by a man and left scarred on her face,…
The Scotland of Lynsay Sands’ Sweet Revenge bears about as much relation to real Scottish geography, history, and dialect as the Greece of Xena, the Warrior Princess does to actual ancient Greece. Like Xena, when this setting and the characters within it are used for laughs and very light entertainment, it can work. Unfortunately, the…
I’m always wary when I pick up a historical romance, especially a medieval. Am I going to encounter characters who talk, think, and act like they belong in a contemporary or will the author’s slavish devotion to accuracy drive me nuts with too many “thee”‘s and “’tis”‘s? Will there be too much history, even for…
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