I’ve read time travel stories where it’s evident that the author did her research. Everything is laid out with scrupulous attention to detail and all the aspects of the story are as accurate as they can be. Viking Unchained is not that kind of story. The time travel aspects are loose, not logical, but the…
Like many – maybe even most – romance novels, Highland Rogue is middle of the road. It has some fun parts, some boring parts, some aspects that work and some that do not. Basically, it’s your classic C read. In 1711 Scotland, Quinn McIntyre is a highwayman looking for revenge. The Duke of Montrose killed…
Twist is a fast, exciting read, featuring one of the best – and strongest – heroines I’ve encountered in a long time. Abbey has a busy, but lonely, life, with no real friends or relatives. As if that isn’t enough, a serial killer is striking close to her home. But Abbey doesn’t spend her time…
Like a moth to a flame, I couldn’t resist the lure of another time travel romance set in Scotland. Maybe I’m looking for the Holy Grail of Romanceland (read: Diana Gabaldon writing under a pen name to fill time between Outlander novels). Or maybe I’m just a glutton for punishment. I wouldn’t call Master of…
I have a few rules for time-travel romances. The most important is that at the end the book the hero and heroine choose to live in the past or the present. None of this “my soul will find yours” nonsense for me. I want the HEA. I knew that within a few chapters of Tumbling…
The days when I might impulsively buy romance novels without the benefit of reviews or online buzz are pretty much behind me. My reluctance is understandable considering that I’ve been burnt w-a-a-a-y too many times when taking a chance on unknown writers and I hate wasting money on books I don’t even finish. But I…
I searched for something nice to say about Down and Dirty, and the only thing I could come up with was its originality, a difficult achievement in an industry that recycles story themes ad nauseum. Unfortunately, the uniqueness of the story succumbed to absurdity. Navy SEAL, Zachary “Pretty Boy” Floyd finds himself in the middle…
When I first started reading romance, time travel romances were fairly plentiful. The quality wasn’t always terrific, but the selection made up for that somewhat. These days it really seems like all-vampires-all-the-time. Time travels are so few and far between that I nearly always snap one up when I see it. A Highlander for Christmas…
An unopened book is a promise of a pleasurable experience, especially when it features elements that usually appeal to me. Historical setting, check. Time travel, check. But then I opened this book and found a plot that quickly degenerated into a murky, muddled mess and mysterious plot details that remain that way for far too…
It’s my masochistic love for the time travel sub-genre that keeps me reading even when stupid 20th century women use disco songs as war cries during some medieval battle. Even though the title of Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband had me cringing, some unknown force was drawn to the words “time-travel” and “Scotland”. Frankly,…
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