Where, oh where, was Evelyn Richardson’s editor? I almost feel guilty reviewing My Lady Nightingale in its present incarnation. The book enjoys the advantages of an unusual premise, an interesting plot, and engaging characters, but it’s so sloppily edited that I could not enjoy it at all. I’m tempted to split my grade: B for…
A Fine Gentleman opens with Viscount Richard Hartville annoyed that Lady Hartville, his mother, has invited distant cousin, Caroline Carruthers, for an indefinite visit on his estate. It’s fairly obvious that Lady Hartville is playing matchmaker, but Richard finds Caroline too meek and sweet to suit his tastes. Very soon a mysterious four year old…
I tried very hard to judge Lord Dragoner’s Wife on the merits of the story and not on the poor condition of the manuscript which I read (hey, my eyes can only take so much!). Even taking that into consideration, though, I discovered a couple of potentially fatal flaws: a hero so filled with self-loathing…
How do you feel about brownies? Oh, not the edible kind but the shaggy, brown, invisible kind? For those not in the know, brownies supposedly resided in every home in England, taking care of little every day details for the owners. Some people could even see these brownies and befriended them. In Sandra Heath’s The…
Willed to Wed is one of those books that makes a reviewer want to assign two grades. In this case, an average grade for the first half of the book and a higher grade for the second half. If you had asked me what the grade would be when I was half way through this…
It seems that every light Regency Romance that I pick up describes itself on the back cover as “delightful.” If you would like to refresh your memory as to the true meaning of this word, I heartily recommend that you find a copy of The Mad Miss Mathley. You will smile from the first page…
Charles Thornton Baxter, fifth Viscount Balfour, also known as Lord Thorn, dislikes Christmas. This particular Christmas season is even more irritating than usual because he has lost the services of his valet, Temple, a man who was closer to him than his own father. Now, in addition to the other Christmas annoyances, he must train…
If you read a lot of short books – either Regencies or Series Romances – you begin to see just how difficult they are to write. How do you find a story that can be told perfectly in about 200 pages? The Wily Wastrel, April Kihlstrom’s latest Regency, illustrates this problem. The characters are inventive,…
Clarissa Feeney in Fair Game is one of the most charming and utterly lovable heroines I have met in a Regency Romance. She is beautiful but is not puffed up about it, she is intelligent without being a bluestocking, slightly naive but not missish, and has a high standard of morals without being puritanical. She…
As Regency Romances go, The Misfit Marquess is itself somewhat of a misfit. It’s not really a comedy of manners with a cast of dozens, but it’s not a dramatic, heart-wrenching tale either. Rather, it’s a quiet story that is very nearly a cabin romance, with a hero who is closeted in his home with…
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