Odd as it may sound, I can often judge how much I enjoyed a book by simply counting how many times I wanted to clobber the hero with his own boot. There’s just something about the alpha male. He’s maddening and sometimes amusing, but he has a heart of gold, and his redemption at the…
This book proudly declares itself to be a Regency Romantic Mystery. There was a Regency setting, I agree to that. Romantic? Not to me. Mystery? If mystery means the hero and heroine run about trying to solve a murder, a mystery it was. It is said that two out of three ain’t bad. In this…
Lady Bets Fortescue is idling through her fourth season in Regency London – to her mama’s despair. The Fortescue’s are desperately short of funds, something they are at pains to conceal from the rest of the ton. This makes it imperative that 23-year-old Bets marry well. If only she wouldn’t be so terribly picky in…
Halfway through reading The Weaver Takes a Wife, I was tempted to stop and look again at the copyright notice, just to assure myself that I wasn’t reading a long-lost and recently rediscovered work of Georgette Heyer’s. This was a delightful read from start to finish, reminiscent of the writing that made me fall in…
Halfway through this book, I rechecked the publication date. No, this book was not written around 1980. Or maybe it was, and spent the next fifteen years in a desk drawer. It certainly reads like it was. This is the story of two pointless marriages, almost mirror images of each other. One is an utter…
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…
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 –…
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