Fans of Stephanie Laurens’s Bar Cynster books will not be disappointed by the latest installment in the series, while newcomers won’t have any problem reading this as a stand-alone. Gyles Rawlings, Earl of Chillingworth and an honorary Cynster, gets his comeuppance in spectacular style, learning all about love as well as passion. And man, is…
Devil’s Bride has a place of honor among my DIK books. It’s rare when a book not only lives up to its hype, but also when the delicious sensuality of the love scenes is more than matched by strong characterization. While Devil’s Bride is still my favorite Stephanie Laurens book, I have on the whole…
How do you feel about romance novels where one of the parties is in disguise? Stephanie Lauren’s A Secret Love has two distinct parts. In the first part, which lasts for about two hundred pages, hero, Gabriel Bar Cynster falls in love with a mysterious disguised woman, who is, in reality, an old friend, Lady…
When Stephanie Laurens wrote Devil’s Bride, she seemed to take the romance world by storm. Lots of people (including myself) loved it. Others didn’t, but it seemed like almost everyone read it. By now, most people have formed an opinion on the Bar Cynster Series. If you didn’t care for the preceding books, then you…
I tried to like this book more than I actually did, truly. I enjoyed the first two books in the Bar Cynster series and expected a good read from this one. I was disappointed. For days I kept putting the book down, and forcing myself to pick it back up, in the hope that it…
Heaven help the woman a Cynster male decides he wants for a wife. Against the Cynster charm and will she doesn’t stand a chance. Although fate plays a heavy hand in all the Cynster books, her machinations are less than subtle in Scandal’s Bride, the latest installment in the Bar Cynster series. Catriona Hennessy is…
I wasn’t sure at first I was going to like Stephanie Laurens’ A Rake’s Vow, although I couldn’t say why. A gut feeling maybe. I’m pleased to say that for once, my gut was wrong. I enjoyed this book and its characters. Vane Cynster is an elegant gentleman, with all that it implies. But he…
If the game of love for Honoria Wetherby and Devil Cynster is best described as an irresistible force meeting an immovable object, then the biggest question would have to be: Who is the immovable object and who is the irresistible force? Both characters are truly fascinating and completely well-matched. Honoria’s and Devil’s clash of wills,…
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