Her One Desire

Her One Desire is a debut novel set toward the end of The War of the Roses with an interesting heroine who is the daughter of the Lord High Executioner (strains from The Mikado kept running though my head whenever it was mentioned). While the characters and basic storyline were okay (though the author is…

Master of Surrender

Master of Surrender reads like a wannbe Kathleen Woodiwiss novel with overwrought emotions and prose, a feisty, feisty, feisty heroine and a mean-to-her hero. Which is okay, I suppose, if you like that sort of thing. I don’t. Sir Rohan du Luc and his seven friends (each of whom, I assume, will have their own…

Danger’s Kiss

I really liked Danger’s Kiss, most of it. The interesting leads – complete opposites – have a nice, slow courtship, each becoming a bit like the other, and there’s a gleeful, larger-than-life villainess. And then it all fell apart in the last four chapters and went from a bordering on DIK territory book to one…

A Knight’s Vow

For the most part, A Knight’s Vow is an inoffensive Medieval. I know that may seem an odd thing to say, but that is what I was thinking during most of the book: “Well, it’s a bit dull, but at least I’m not offended.” Too many near misses between the hero and heroine, though, moved…

Knave’s Honor

I enjoyed reading the first third of Margaret Moore’s Knave’s Honor, the third book in her King John series, but after a promising start, the story fell victim to the Saggy Middle Syndrome. The story begins with plenty of action: As Lizette d’Averette, a young heiress, returns from a wedding, a large group of rogue…

Border Wedding

Border Wedding started out interestingly enough, with a Medieval shotgun wedding between a drop-dead gorgeous knight and the plain daughter of a minor baron, but soon turned dull, and eventually aggravating the longer I read. Sir Walter Scott (not the Sir Walter Scott, though parts of story are loosely based on some of his writings)…

An Honorable Rogue

I have had good results with Harlequin’s mail-order historicals (they release two per month, in addition to the four historicals available in stores), so I was happy to give Carol Townend’s latest novel a try, in spite of my determination to steer clear of books with “Rogue” and other such overused words in their titles….

The Warrior

The Warrior is a solid and enjoyable Medieval Romance whose only real problem is a moderate case of sequel-itis. Laird Lochlan MacAllister, steady, sober and reliable, receives word that his brother Kieran, who has long been thought dead, may be alive after all. As he travels to France on the trail of information as to…

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