It’s tough to read a book when you feel that the story is solid and could be really, really interesting, but the storytelling just isn’t there. For me, that basically sums up Michele Sinclair’s Desiring the Highlander. The storytelling keeps what might have been a good book from being a memorable experience. Cole McTeirnay (yes,…
The Highlander’s Sword started off well, but quickly spiraled down into an extremely frustrating read centered on my least favorite plot device: the Big Misunderstanding. Aila Graham has been destined for the church since she was a child and expects no more out of life. Suddenly her father, the laird of her clan, demands that…
Sandra Hill may have changed publishers, but one thing certainly hasn’t altered: When you open a book by the author, you know exactly what you’re going to get. Her books are broad, ribald jokes. And completely and totally over the top in every way possible. This one sticks entirely to the author’s formula – which…
Ever since I read What a Scoundrel Wants, I’ve been wanting to see what happened to the heroine’s horrid sister, Ada. In Scoundrel’s Kiss, Ada, our villain, shows a more nuanced side and gets a story of her own that features a fantastic web of plot and some of the morally intriguing characters I’m starting…
Knight of Pleasure started out as a promising read; the heroine seemed interesting and a little different, the conflict looked intriguing, and the historical details appeared to be authentic. Unfortunately, the book failed to deliver on its promise. Instead, it descended into Cliché-land. The details remained well-researched, but the behavior of the hero and heroine…
I always like reading debut novels because sometimes I discover wonderful treasures. Other times, however, I find books that required work they didn’t get before hitting shelves. Sadly, Angela Johnson’s Vow of Seduction is one of the latter. Underneath all the clunky narration, modern-day psychobabble, and info dumps, what we essentially have is the story…
I love adventure, and I love Medievals, so To Tempt a Knight was a winner for me in many ways. Though not for those who like their history strictly realistic, this book entertains and tells a very action-packed and romantic story. Following the dissolution and killing of the Templars in continental Europe, Sir William Keith…
Tamed By a Laird was the most difficult book to get through in recent memory. Not because there was anything tremendously wrong with it, nothing that so offended me as a reader that this review is written with outrage. Actually, those books are often easier to get through than this book, which was just boring….
I first read Alinor, the second volume in the Roselynde Chronicles, when I was a student in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. I came across volumes one to three in a used book store, and was in romance heaven. (It took me almost eight years to track down volumes four to six.) When I reread Alinor for reviewing,…
Hmmmm…I really have to admit that Reynold de Burgh: the Dark Knight is a tough book to grade. On a purely empirical level, this just isn’t high art (and I’m not comparing it to Dostoevsky or anything; I mean in comparison to other romance novels). It had some conventions that got on my nerves –…
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