The Regency shelf of my Desert Island Keeper book case was inhabited totally by Mary Balogh and Carla Kelly books until now. Allison Lane’s book The Rake’s Rainbow is a simply superb study of obsession on the part of a gentleman toward a lady who is a vicious and amoral slut. The entire ton knows…
Snowdrops and Scandalbroth is a very clever Regency that explores, in the lightest and funniest of ways, the double standard that we sometimes apply to the behavior of heroes and heroines. An underlying assumption of romance is that heroes are enslaved to lustful urges. So if a healthy, virile man does control himself, is it…
The Bluestocking on His Knee is a very ordinary Regency. That description can either be insulting or an indication of the safe and familiar, depending on how you touchy you feel. For me it was an average read, breaking no conventions of the genre. It was actually so average that my only problem with it…
How well you enjoy this read is largely dependent on how you shop. Do you buy the brand names or the cheaper store brands? Do you try to duplicate the gourmet recipes of cooking shows using similar ingredients, like dry basil instead of fresh? If you do, you’ll find this an amazing story, just the…
Miss Carlyle’s Curricle could have been a dark and stormy book full of angst and hand wringing. Both the hero and heroine had very bad things happen to them as children, but they are both basically sunny-natured and not inclined to brood. If I have any complaint about Miss Carlyle’s Curricle it’s that it is…
I so enjoyed Karen Harbaugh’s last Regency Romance, Cupid’s Kiss, that I was really expecting big things from Miss Carlyle’s Curricle. Unfortunately, I found it to be disappointingly average. It’s not the worst Regency in the world, but it really isn’t fresh or new either. Diana Carlyle is devastated when her beloved Uncle dies in…
It had been so long since I read a Regency Romance that I had forgotten how much I enjoyed them. The Nobody by Diane Farr was a delightful reminder. Caitlin Campbell is a heroine not unlike some of those brought to life by Jane Austen. Although her family’s financial circumstances are below what is necessary…
This book was very aptly named. It centers on Caitlin, who is nothing and nobody to the elegant world of Regency London. Unfortunately, the name also seemed to refer to the read itself. I forgot the details of the hero and heroine so quickly I have to leaf through the book as I write this…
I can see it right now, some unsuspecting reader of Regency Romances picks up A Hired Hero, sees the sweet cover of a smiling man in his shirtsleeves cradling a woman to his chest while a horse stands in the background, and starts to read, expecting a sweet country idyll. What she is going to…
Birds of a Feather is not a book for the impatient reader. This is one of those books that gets off to a very slow start, and for the first half I was not sure that I even liked the hero. However, it really picks up at about the halfway point, and ends up as…
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