I’m predisposed to like Rita Boucher’s work, but The Poet & the Paragon wasn’t my cup of tea. While parts of the book were captivating, the rest degenerated into run-of-the-mill Regency clichés, with which I have little patience. In essence, this is a road romance. The main part of the book deals with how Rebecca…
I haven’t been reading Regency Romances for very long and truthfully only began reading them by accident. Still, I have no problems making up for lost time and Rita Boucher’s The Poet and the Paragon was a thoroughly pleasant read. At first, the thought of a heroine who writes tracts on proper morals was a…
I’ve rewritten this review three times now. Trying to be fair both to the book and to its potential readers takes time when your fingers keep committing Freudian slides into the vitriolic. After all, this book was my runner-up for Worst Read of 1998. Captain Jack Vespa returns to England after having been wounded in…
A few pages into Miss Lockharte’s Letters, I was convinced I had found a keeper of the multiple hanky kind. Rosellen Lockharte’s situation is so bleak it brought tears to my eyes, and I’m not the sentimental sort. But once things took a turn for the better for Rosellen, the book descended into a Regency…
There really isn’t much new under the sun when it comes to Regency Romances. So when I read one, I judge it on how well the author can cover familiar territory. Since I very much enjoyed Patricia Oliver’s latest regency The Lady in Gray, I went on a bookstore glom and hit a winner with…
Cupid’s Kiss is Karen Harbaugh’s last book in the Cupid Trilogy. After having read it, I plan on grabbing the first two, Cupid’s Mistake and Cupid’s Darts, as soon as possible. Psyche Hathaway has turned down the latest in a long line of suitors, much to her mother’s amazement. She has not been able to…
Like Carla Kelly, Karen Harbaugh is pushing the bounds of the Regency sub-genre. But she’s doing it in a completely different way. While Kelly’s heroes and heroines are often common people, Harbaugh’s are about as uncommon as you can get. In Cupid’s Kiss, the final installment in Harbaugh’s Cupid trilogy, the hero is Eros –…
You’ve got to feel for Persys Timothy. For years she’s served as companion to her spectacularly beautiful cousin, Katherine. But now Katherine’s married (to the man Persys fancies herself in love with), and her aunt informs her – at the wedding breakfast! – that she must find another place to live. An enigmatic guest, the…
If not for the review I had to write for this book, I would have forgotten it by the end of next week. There is nothing really wrong with Miss Timothy Perseveres, but for some reason it wouldn’t stick in my mind. There are few highs and lows, nothing to attract or repel. With so…
After a long series of mediocre reads, it is a treat to come across a book that gets it right. Having been banished to her aunt in Cornwall after a youthful peccadillo, lady Sylvia has spent the last 10 years concentrating on her art. Nicholas Morley, Earl of Longueville, has returned to Cornwall after a…
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