Married By Mistake is funny – but not farcial – and features a hero and heroine whom I bonded with immediately. The dialogue is witty, the characters are engaging and I was happily engrossed in this book for several hours. After I finished it, I wanted to open it up and start all over again….
His Lordship’s Mistress is a marvelous book. I had a copy several years ago and lent it my sister Anne, who true to her title as The Pickiest Reader In The World did not like it. Then she lent it to someone else who lost it. Thank goodness it has been reprinted. I read it…
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” His Heart’s Delight involves a game of Pull-The-Wool-Over-Their-Eyes, as a couple with a mutual need to deceive team up to fool the people around them. Of course, they only end up fooling themselves. Uneven in spots with some occasionally distracting background material,…
The Marquis’ Kiss would have been rated higher if the style had been a little less florid and the characters less flamboyant. Characters don’t talk so much as they declaim. They don’t move – they posture. At one point, I was just waiting for Snidley Whiplash to come out of the bushes, twirl his mustache…
The Country Mouse tells a love story at a very leisurely pace. There are books that build slowly, and books that build s-l-o-w-l-y. The Country Mouse could probably be better described as The Meandering Mouse. The country mouse in question is Miss Lavinia Taylor, who is really a town mouse who hopes to move to…
Lynn Collum’s The Christmas Charm is the first in a trilogy about the three children of Mr. Addington, a younger son of a baron who left England to make his way in business on the continent. Mrs. Addington was an Italian, and the family is close and happy, although not wealthy. This book is the…
As I read the description for this book, I was reminded of The Sergeant Major’s Daughter by Sheila Walsh. Walsh’s book was a favorite of mine for a long while because of the strength and empathy the heroine embodied. I had high hopes that Miss Winthrop, a heroine set on following the army into Spain,…
I chose Stocking Stuffers because I was hoping for a quick, light read during the holidays. Ironically, I found it laborious and difficult to get through until the very end. As one might guess from the three kitties in stockings on the cover, each of these stories features a cat as part of the plot….
If an author has done her job, I will be swept away into another world and introduced to people I would like to know in real life, and when I leave this fictional world I will have been moved in some way. With The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn has most definitely done her…
Belle’s Beau is a very uneven book. When I first started it, I thought it was terrible. The good news is that the book got better and better as it went along, but the bad news is that it took quite a bit of time to get better. Annabelle (Belle) Weatherstone is thrilled to be…
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