It’s been a long time since I have read such a light and inconsequential traditional Regency like The Winter Duke. The trouble is, Bergin’s story is not a comedy. It lacks an interesting story, and the characters were phantoms. I could not muster any positive feelings toward the book at all. Lydia Grenville is a…
Many Regency authors have left to write single title romances, and many others have just plain left. Signet is clearly seeking out new talent to replace the old, and Sharon Sobel is the latest author to make her Regency debut. Like many other debuts, it’s an okay read – strong in some areas, weak in…
The Gilded Knight is not a fast-paced book filled with exciting happenings. Instead, it’s a quiet and introspective tale, and how you react to it will depend on how well you like the characters. Although Donna Simpson’s characterizations can be exquisitely written (as in Lord St. Claire’s Angel and Miss Truelove Beckons), her latest features…
A young woman, left at the altar by her vanished fiancé, is forced to become a teacher when her family suffers a major financial loss. Years later, while traveling to another position, she meets up with her ex-betrothed, now a nobleman. Does this sound like any number of Regency romances you’ve read? Well, when the…
Aurelia Trevor inherited her family home, Pevensey Park, after her father died, but her uncle, also her guardian, has control of it until she reaches age 25 or marries. Afraid that under her uncle’s dubious care, the estate will be ruined long before four years are up, she decides to marry. There are many candidates…
The Incomparable Cassandra is the kind of good, character-driven Regency that I really enjoy. The hero and heroine are opposites who can’t help being attracted to each other, and both are flawed people who grow and change over the course of the book. It’s a very worthwhile read. Lady Cassandra Blythe is apprehensive about the…
This is a story of unrequited love, a plot that usually works for me. And while Miss Whitlow does finally get her man, the path toward her Happily Ever After is a well-worn and familiar one. George Clasby has seen his friends fall victim to happiness one by one, causing him to take a good…
Rosamunde’s Revenge is a split personality book; the first half is great, and the second half, well, isn’t. The author introduces two wonderful characters who share an interesting conflict. Then, about two thirds of the way through the book, that conflict is more or less solved, and a really lame action plot takes center stage….
A Grand Deception by the late Elizabeth Mansfield was first published in 1988 and has been reprinted as a Signet Super Regency. It has a delightfully complicated plot and characters who are, for the most part, charming. It’s a sweet traditional Regency Romance, but that it earns even above-average status owes to its secondary romance…
I was very afraid, when reading the opening chapter, that this was going to be another young-woman-offered-as-a-gambling-debt-collateral kind of book. Thankfully, Rhonda Woodward quickly alleviated my fears and instead I was treated to very nice fish-out-of-water story. The Earl of Haverstone, known as “Stone” to all, just lost a good deal of money playing cards….
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