The Highlander’s Stolen Touch is an earnest medieval full of well-meaning characters who try to do the right thing for their clan – whatever their personal desires might be. I liked the characters and the feeling of historical accuracy, but the plot did not quite work for me. Ciara Robertson has loved Tavis…
I’ve read a few Amanda Scott books over the years, and they generally come in around the B-/C+ range for me. Highland Lover is similar to the others I’ve read; the historical research is well done, and the plot is just slightly slow and plodding. A slightly-too-naive heroine kicked the grade down to average for…
When I am not reading romance novels, one of my favorite authors is Dan Brown. I just love the puzzles and intrigues of his Robert Langdon books. That is what made True Highland Spirit a real pleasure for me to read. It was the historical romance version of a Dan Brown novel. Morrigan McNab is…
Secret keeping between the hero and heroine is always a problem when it comes to romance. While characters can keep secrets and hide their identities through lies of omission, those are easily forgiven if the characters are engaging and likeable. However, if the deceit is not handled correctly, the result is a lack of trust…
I had never read Jackie Ivie’s work before reading Knight Everlasting, and I am afraid that I am unlikely to read anything again. There is just something missing from this story. It starts out with the hero, Aiden, saving Juliana from an attack by English soldiers somewhere in the Highlands in the time of Edward…
Medieval stories have long been a favorite of mine, yet they seem to have fallen out of favor with publishers. And the few recently published ones I have read I considered lackluster at best. To my most pleasant surprise, Lindsay Townsend’s latest did not fall into this category. When Edith’s overlord Giles feared the pestilence,…
Seduced by Her Highland Warrior is a book I liked but didn’t love. It’s somewhat unique in that the couple has already been married for several years at the start of the book. And that’s several years where they have been together, not several years during which one or the other ran off because of…
How accurate do you want your historical romances? That’s a question that I grapple with every once in a while as I’m reading. When a story is too overly modern—with Medieval heroines spouting feminist beliefs from the latter half of the twentieth century—and getting away with these diatribes in a time when women were publicly…
Don’t you love finding a new author to glom? I haven’t read Kris Kennedy’s first two books, but now that I’ve read her latest, I’m definitely going to shop for her backlist. I stopped seeking out Medieval romances a while back because the plots all seemed so hackneyed. Not so with Ms Kennedy’s medieval. You…
Imagine you’re watching the History Channel. They’ve got a lovely six-part miniseries about 12th century Northumbria just before the Battle of the Standard, and you decide, “Hey! I don’t know anything about that historical period, let’s check it out!” You’re enjoying the diverse cast of historical figures, and love the in-depth look into Scottish and…
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