I’m not someone who specifically seeks out Christmas-themed books to read around this time of year, but I’ve had this on my TBR pile for a while now, and it caught my eye when I was scrolling through my Kindle looking for my next read – so I thought, “why not?” A Christmas Promise pushes two…
this review was originally published on May 24, 2000 Lady Christiana Fitzwaryn is offended to discover that her guardian, King Edward III, has betrothed her to a merchant. If she knew the whole story behind that betrothal she’d be a lot more than just offended, I promise you. By Arrangement by Madeline Hunter is a…
Lucy Morris’ latest, Wedding Night with Her Viking Enemy, features Viking Grimr Eriksson and Sigrid Sigurdsson. Their families are sworn enemies, but the king has ordered a marriage alliance take place to unite them and end their fighting. Forced together, Grimr and Sigrid slowly come to realize the other is not what they seem. The…
The Heiress Gets a Duke is a wonderful, character-driven novel about the gray area between family responsibility and duty to self. It’s the first book I’ve read by Harper St. George (more known for Viking and Western romance) but it certainly will not be the last. New Yorkers August Crenshaw and her sister Violet are…
Elizabeth Elliott’s fine Montagues series follows another young woman through a new marriage in Medieval times in the aptly titled The Princess. The widowed-young Isabel Plantagenet of Ascalon, Dowager Countess of Rheinbaden in Germany, possesses a spine of iron – which is a good thing when she meets the muddy, brusque and bearish Sir Faulke…
The first time I read The Bride, I was captivated by Alec and Jamie’s story. I refused to put the book down and I ended up reading it in record time. Wild horses could not have dragged me away from this book. Many people I’ve met still list The Bride as not only their favorite…
Everyone who reads historical romance has a favorite period that they love time-warping back to again and again. Mine happens to be the medieval period. I have a good handful of keepers that I always go back to when I want to revisit the era. Some are well-worn (the entirety of the Rosalynde Chronicles; Julie…
As a reviewer, one runs out of ways to say “this book wasn’t bad”. Offer too little praise and you’re shortchanging an author who did a decent job, too much and you’re building unrealistic expectations. So, hey readers, this book was OK/not bad/nice/readable/alright/(any other phrase meaning pleasant but not earth shattering). Lady Yelena’s father arranges…
There are defining texts in many of romance’s subgenres for me: Novels that may be among the first I read in a subgenre, but, more important, encompass for me all that is fascinating about the subgenre. For historical novels (or romances) set in the Middle Ages, among these texts are the Margaret of Ashbury books…
I miss Signet Regencies. One day when I had a hankering for a quality Regency, I did something I’d been longing to do but never got around to: I went down to the library and parked myself for three hours with an old Mary Balogh I’d never before read. By page 45 I was panicking….
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