Taken by the Night

Taken by the Night is the third book in a paranormal historical series featuring warriors who became vampires after drinking from a cursed chalice six hundred years ago. Smith’s writing style is solid throughout, but I couldn’t help thinking that I would have liked the book better as a straight historical. Saint is in London…

Warrior’s Bride

Warrior’s Bride is the quintessential C read. I’ve struggled for some time to write the review, because I felt that the sentence “this book was okay” more or less summed it all up. I didn’t like it, and I didn’t hate it, and there just isn’t much more to it than that. Izzy was born…

Silken Shadows

Just three years ago, Jennifer St. Giles was a welcome breath of fresh air with her American-set historical romances featuring classic Gothic overtones. My oh my, how the mighty have fallen. So, just how do you take a good thing and pretty much ruin it in three short years? First of all, you move the…

Chasing Midnight by Susan Krinard

As I began my first vampire/werewolf romance, I was a little skeptical. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the setting, plot, and characters Susan Krinard creates in Chasing Midnight. Allie Chase was the belle of Long Island society until she was stricken with a debilitating illness that left her wasting away and bedridden. Abandoned by…

Bride Enchanted

Edith Layton is no newcomer in the field of paranormal historicals, having written stories in the sub-genre before – the novellas Hounds of Heaven and The Last Gift (in A Regency Christmas VIII and A Regency Christmas Present, respectively). So when I picked up Bride Enchanted, I hoped that in the hands of an experienced…

The Devil’s Possession

For a debut novel, Heather Waters’ The Devil’s Possession isn’t bad at all. The writing is well done and the plot nicely developed. However, I found the characters weak – weak enough to make me put the book down at certain points in frustration. Faith Maitland stands to become the chieftain of the clan upon…

Caressed By Ice by Nalini Singh

What is it about emotionally distant men that make my inner heroine stand up and take notice? Inner masochism? Love of a challenge? Bone-deep belief in the power of love? Whatever it is, it was on high alert through Nalini Singh’s third installment in her Changeling/Psy/Human world – Caressed by Ice. Ice follows the story…

The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard

I had this vague impression that Minda Webber wrote light-hearted paranormals. Little did I know that meant encountering bad jokes and glaring historical liberties in her latest book, The Reinvented Miss Bluebeard. Eve Bluebeard, the daughter of, yes, the notorious pirate Captain Bluebeard, abandons the pirate life for which he groomed her and decides to…

Return to Me by Julia Templeton

With so many paranormal romances being published, it’s hard to find plots and characters that are original and fresh. Julia Templeton’s Return to Me is fresh, due mainly to the secondary romance of the hero’s homosexual brother. Templeton has taken a chance here – and it works. Darius MacLeod, a 14th century Scot, would have…

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