When I read a romance, I’m looking for characters who act like adults, not overgrown, silly, sulky adolescents. Unhappily, the cast in Mistletoe Mischief comes across as teenagers trapped in grownup bodies, and even the addition of a paranormal element couldn’t save it for me. Lady Evangeline Radcliffe has a secret reason for hiring Megan…
I want to admit, rather sheepishly, that I bought this book by mistake. Over the summer I saw a new Stephanie Laurens’ title at Amazon.com and assumed, very illogically, that it was the new Bar Cynster romance. After receiving it, I beat myself up for not checking first, and headed right back to Amazon.com to…
Now I get it. Last year, everyone was raving about Diane Farr’s Fair Game, which won our reader’s award for best Regency Romance. When I read it, the appeal completely eluded me. But I decided to give her another chance, and I’m so glad I did, because my experience with Once Upon a Christmas was…
Viscount Vagabond is a fun Regency romp, an early work by that Incomparable herself, Loretta Chase. Although it employs many standard Regency devices, including hidden identities and interfering servants, thanks to Chase’s writing ability, it’s definitely much better than your standard Regency Romance. The sheltered, bookish Catherine Pelliston is running away from an arranged marriage…
This book was definitely a Desert Isle Keeper for me. Here are some of the reasons why many other readers will hate it: It’s written in the first person; Both the hero and the heroine are unrepentant snobs; and The hero is one of those people who suffers the Agony of Being Born Too Beautiful….
To me, a Regency Romance should be clever, witty, and sweet. A good Regency should also portray a woman who is bound by the constraints of society, but who manages to express her true nature in spite of them. A truly memorable Regency is one that manages to move me emotionally in spite of its…
Lord Langdon’s Tutor by first-time Regency Romance author Laura Paquet stars a hero who really needs to be told where to get off, and a heroine who doesn’t hesitate to tell him. Lady Clarissa Denham is resolved to marry only a man she loves, in spite of her father’s attempts to make an eligible match…
Miss Chadwick’s Champion has two elements that I usually prefer to avoid – supposed amnesia and a Big Secret. However, author McRae manages to weave these elements into a plot that is entertaining and believable. The end result will please most fans of Regency Romance Susanna Chadwick is an heiress who stands to inherit thousands…
Argh! Yet another person’s title given wrong. Emily Delafont, Marchioness of Sedgely is not Lady Delafont – she’s Lady Sedgely. It’s Lady Title, not Lady Surname! Is that so hard?! Plenty of other writers of both Regency Romance and historicals set in the regency period get the titles right. Where is that editor…. But you…
I have a special place in my heart for traditional Regency Romances about married people. Unrequited love is tragic, but unrequited love within an indissolvable marriage is doubly so. Maybe that’s why, in spite of some problems, the story of Emily Delaforte and Baxter Delaforte, Marquis of Sedgley touched me. Lady Delafont’s Dilemma takes place…
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