Miss Julia Allard is standing innocently on a street in London, enjoying her first Season, when a man – the Duke of Kelbourne – suddenly kisses her very publicly in order to fulfill a drunken wager. The resulting scandal sends Julia back to her quiet country life, where her neighbors whisper that she is a…
I can’t remember when I have had such fun reading a book. The Ideal Bride is light, sweet, funny, and charming as can be. It may be late in the year, but I’ve found the best Regency romance for 2003. Gabriel Carr is a wealthy London businessman. A methodical man, he spent several years having…
I can’t help sighing as I write this review: how I wish I had a terrific new Regency to recommend. Alas, this is yet another offering that will make you want to reach for one of your older comfort reads. The Spinster and the Wastrel is unfortunately a waste. Annette Courtney is astonished when she…
Lord Fenmore’s Wager has charming characters. Diana Hamilton is lovely and Julian, Lord Fenmore is charming and handsome. If their relationship lacks a bit of spark – well, I have no problem with a nice, sweet story at all. The Hamilton family is a good one, but they don’t have a lot of good fortune….
Emily’s Beau starts at the beginning of the Season in 1818, when Jacob Winters, the Earl of Hawthorne, is notified that he has a ward. A young woman, the daughter of one of the officers who had served with the Earl’s father in India, was left in his care after the death of her mother….
The title of this book sounds an awful lot like that of one of my favorite Regencies, Emma Jensen’s The Best Laid Schemes, but the similarities end right there. The Best Laid Plans features characters ranging from uninteresting to actively irritating, and the writing is sub-par, to say the least. Miss Catherine Prescott D’Eauville (if…
The Redwyck Charm features Marcus Redwyck, Earl of Amberley, a charming beta hero. Marcus is good, kind, decent, hardworking, and that rare creature, a male virgin. Beta heroes are sometimes dull, but Marcus was too intense to be dull and I thought he was the best thing in the book. If only the heroine, Julianna,…
Somewhere in this book there was a story that I wanted to read. A young girl publicly and painfully jilted in her first season by a cad who targeted her and planned the stunt to get into an elite club. The cad’s brother, an honest and decent man, meets this girl six years later and…
A Stroke of Luck is Andrea Pickens’ last traditional Regency. She closes this part of her career with an enjoyable story that pairs a very proper Duke with a free-spirited woman, both of whom eventually discover they are not so different after all. When we first meet Deverill, the Duke of Prestwick, he is a…
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