I’ve had pretty good luck with traditional Regency Romances lately, and A Rival Heir provided another solidly enjoyable read for me. It’s an encouraging way to start off the new year. This is a classic “poor relation” story. It’s a popular theme in Regencies, and for good reason. It’s fun to root for the underdog,…
Fortune hunters abound in traditional Regency Romance and, for the most part, they are not heroine material. They sidle up to the heroes at Almack’s. They gossip about the heroine. They dress in vulgar, albeit expensive, clothing and never get a husband unless he is old and depraved. At first glance it may seem surprising…
A good Regency Romance offers sparkling conversation, delicate humor, genuine emotion, and flashes of sensual allure. What is sometimes missing is the romance of history, the beauty of nature, the color and humor of local characters, and perhaps a certain warmth and dash in the hero’s personality. All those elements are present in Dawn Lindsey’s…
Carla Kelly’s One Good Turn features Benedict Nesbitt, Duke of Knaresborough (Nez), who first appeared in Libby’s London Merchant There are also small guest appearances by Jane and Scipio Butterworth from Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind. Nez stops his coach one rainy day to pick up a woman and a young boy. Nez assumes that…
With French Leave, Sheri Cobb South wins, places and shows. She makes the hat trick, achieves the trifecta, threepeats. This book brings her Weaver trilogy to a delightful close, and I was charmed from the very first word. Lord Waverly (the villain in The Weaver Takes A Wife) has fallen on hard times. His debts…
Reissues of old titles usually produce grumbling from the AAR staff, as we see precious bookstore shelf space going to the umpteen-billionth reprint of titles by the usual select group of superstar authors. Not this time, though. For us, the news that Signet is bringing back Carla Kelly’s delightful – and surprising – Libby’s London…
Lady Flora’s Fantasy starts out promisingly enough. Flora is 22 and tired of the Marriage Mart. She vows to sit out the Season – until, that is, she meets the dashing Lord Dashwood and his friend Lord Lynd on a pre-season trip to Brighton. She gives only a passing glance to Lynd, but after five…
A good Regency Romance reminds me of a wonderful miniature painting – I marvel not only at the evident talent and amount of telling detail, but that all of it is in such a small, perfect package. Regencies that deviate too far from the detailed slice of life, where small dramas are writ large, undermine…
Is there anything better for getting into the Christmas spirit than curling up with a really good Regency Christmas anthology? I know I have saved a number of these books and pull them out once a year just to get me in the mood. Unfortunately, in comparison to previous years, the 2001 Signet Regency anthology,…
A Perfect Match suffers from one of the worst cases of sequilitis that I’ve ever seen. A word in the ear of author and publisher: the Regency Romances of Jeanne Savery are not so universally read that she can bury her hero and heroine in characters from at least four previous books, and apparently several…
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