Devil’s Bride has a place of honor among my DIK books. It’s rare when a book not only lives up to its hype, but also when the delicious sensuality of the love scenes is more than matched by strong characterization. While Devil’s Bride is still my favorite Stephanie Laurens book, I have on the whole…
Like its predecessors, The Reluctant Smuggler is a different sort of Regency Romance, in that it takes place in a quieter location than the usual London settings. It also has a hero and heroine who don’t so much fall in love as sort of “back into” each other, as each pursue what they believe is…
This comedy is “cute” in the sense that a bunch of Belgian bittersweet hearts clutched in the paws of a big Gund teddy bear would be cute – fluff deluxe, top-of-the-line. Cupboard Kisses had me from “hello” because the back copy promised my favorite silly story, the one where a proper miss spends some time…
This humorous Regency Romance features a country heroine come to London to kick up her heels and have fun and it is for the most part enjoyable. Rosalind Lacey is a delightful young woman, the story moves at a brisk pace and features incidents that are by turns humorous and touching, and the supporting characters…
Any time it takes me almost a week to read a two hundred page book, I know I’m in trouble. When I’m actually cleaning my house because I find that more interesting than opening the book in question, then I’m sure it’s not a book I can recommend to anyone. Unfortunately, The Lady from Lisbon…
Donna Simpson’s first Regency Romance, Lord St. Claire’s Angel was one of the strongest debuts I have read in a long time. Her second one, Lady Delafont’s Dilemma had problems with pacing its story, but it did showcase one of Simpson’s strengths – her marvelous characters. The last book in the trilogy, Lady May’s Folly,…
For the first 19 chapters of this book, I was loving it. I loved the setting – Spain during the Peninsular Wars. It gave a good description of the lives of the wives and daughters who followed the drum – something we don’t often see in a Regency Romance. I loved the main characters, Lord…
Lord Nightingale’s Triumph is the latest installment in an ambitious Regency soap opera whose reach exceeds its grasp. This book is every inch the soap, with paper-thin characters and ludicrous-but-intriguing plot twists from long-lost twins to buried treasure. Unfortunately, in hewing so closely to the rules of soap opera, the book lets a few crucial…
Do not let the title of The Christmas Gift misguide you into thinking this book is only good during the holidays. Granted some plot points revolve around Christmas gifts and the story winds up nicely during the holiday season, but it’s more background flavor than content. Jack Princeton realizes that even though the wounds he…
It’s mystifying why so many forceful noblemen of romance fiction give the time of day to so many quiet maidens. Building on this enigma, Lord Darlington’s Darling is about a woman who eventually graduates from being a doormat – proving that she knows not only what she wants, but also (and perhaps more importantly) how…
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