I found A Perfect Love to be a difficult book to grade. The book’s time-travel and reincarnation aspects were quite well done. On the other hand, I felt a certain distance from the characters and their actions that was hard to ignore; distance and romance do not make for a good match. In the present…
It’s never easy to give a bad review, and this one is particularly difficult because the book in question represents an author’s life dream. Susan Elliston apparently spent fifteen years researching and writing Lafitte’s Lady before having it published by a vanity press called FirstPublish.com. I’m sorry to say that this book is awful. Tori,…
I’ve sometimes wished that books would go on just a little bit longer, but in the case of Everything In Its Time I wish it had ended about twenty pages sooner. Up until then, this had been an engrossing time travel story and I was having a very good time with it, but the drawn…
Sandra Hill’s 1998 release The Last Viking was one of the funniest books I have read in a long time. Truly, Madly Viking is just as funny and, unlike that earlier title, which featured a rather annoying heroine, this one has loveable characters all around. I really enjoyed it. It is 998 A.D. Jorund Ericsson…
How much fun is Truly, Madly Viking? Well, it took me longer than usual to finish this book because my roommate kept stealing it. This time-travel is laugh-out-loud funny, with charming characters to boot. Though it is very campy, it should appeal to the romance reader looking for a good time. Hunky tenth-century Viking Jorulf…
I didn’t have very high hopes for Timestruck by Flora Speer – those folks at Lovespell really need to think about their cover art – but I was pleasantly surprised. Gina McCain is the bitter, untrusting product of the foster care system. She has no friends and no life, but that’s okay: she’s about to…
One of the first romances and the first time travel I ever read was Jude Deveraux’s A Knight in Shining Armor. This book made a lasting impression on me, in a good way. Since then I have come to realize that as a sub-genre, the time travel is a difficult one. Believable romances are hard…
As a plot device time travel should be used very carefully. The author’s job is made more complicated by the necessity of explaining the rules and conventions of the traveling done by the characters. To be effective, the time travel must also serve the purpose of furthering the story. Traveling through time, for its own…
In Sixpence Bride, American Jocelyn Tanner participates in a cheesy wife auction as part of her English tour package and ends up traveling back in time to the year 1797. There she finds herself part of a real wife auction, and before she knows it she has been purchased by a nobleman. Garren Warrick would…
Midnight Fantasies is at times a very funny book, and a hot one too. The heroine is Elizabeth Carlton, the straight-laced daughter of a Texas gubernatorial candidate. She’s prim on the inside, but her business is anything but stodgy; she provides super-rich clients with sexual fantasy scenarios. She only dreams of partaking in such fantasies…
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