Love and Mayhem

There will be two types of people reading this book – those who immediately recognize the American theater standard being parodied by the author and get a few chuckles from it, and those who don’t catch the send-up, take everything at face value, and wind up mightily horrified. While the romance contained here is not…

The Daring Twin

If you look carefully at the cover of this book, you’ll notice that the couple in the ridiculous clinch have more vacuous expressions than most. Normally, you can’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case, the vapid pair on the front show you exactly what to expect within. Tarr of Hellewyk is…

The Dark Queen by Susan Carroll

Readers in recent years have complained that the rich, interesting historicals of the past are vanishing. As a reader, I certainly have found myself buying fewer books overall as the meaty historicals I loved started to be replaced by and large with homogenized wallpaper comedies. Fortunately, there are still some good and interesting historicals out…

The Queen’s Fencer

I have one good thing to say about Caitlin Scott-Turner: she does not write wallpaper history. The Queen’s Fencer takes place in the England of Queen Elizabeth I, and Turner has obviously done a great deal of research on that period. So have I, and I find no fault in her portrayal, either in the…

Dark Warrior by Donna Fletcher

Having never read Donna Fletcher, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Of most interest to me about Dark Warrior was its setting, along with an outside obstacle to the romance: the Church. These draws all too quickly became drawbacks. Church persecution of supposed heretics is much discussed but rarely seen and the setting comes across…

Phillipa

I have never before read a full-length Bertrice Small novel, though I have read an anthology contribution or two. I have, of course, heard much about them, and was looking forward to a great campy, sex romp of a book, with Tudor Court Intrigue as the backdrop. Well, there is very little romping and who…

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