Unlacing Lady Thea is a truly charming road-trip story featuring two well-drawn and engaging protagonists who had known each other as children, but drifted apart following the hero’s aborted wedding. Long-standing friends who fall for each other is a trope I particularly enjoy, which obviously predisposed me in the book’s favor; but when, in the…
I have read a few of Julia Justiss’ novels and always enjoyed her stories. The Rake to Redeem Her is also an enjoyable book, the second in her Ransleigh Rogues series. It might have even been a special book without a few problems. This is a book that I would recommend to others, but I…
On the surface, The Rake to Ruin Her is a fairly run-of-the-mill marriage of convenience story, and as such, it’s well-written. I found the two principals to be engaging and fairly well-rounded given the smallish page-count allowed by the average Harlequin Historical. Caro Denby is a rather unconventional young lady in that she has no…
Sometimes a quiet plot is better than an exciting one. Unmasking the Duke’s Mistress was good, if not high-action, for about three-quarters of the book until the author threw in a blackmail plot that fell flat and dropped the grade down to a C. Arabella Tatton is a young widow who has fallen on very…
Julia Justiss has generally been a solidly performing writer, judging by her reviews here at AAR (and my own limited experience). Her latest, Society’s Most Disreputable Gentleman, adds another good book to her ranks. Greville Anders was a self-centered society gentleman, preferring to spend more time at parties and racing than tending to his property…
Annie Burrows is an author who manages to enthrall me whenever I read one of her books. Several have been tearjerkers for me, as Annie Burrows does not shy away from showing selfish and callous behavior and describing deep unhappiness. Yet often I found the novel flawed after I’d finished them: a Big Mis that…
The ramshackle father wagering away his daughter’s virtue to the disreputable gambler? Heard that one before. But setting the action ten years after the fact, when the gambler still hasn’t followed through, and adding a twenty-year-old murder mystery come to haunt the current generation? That’s a bit different. Before I get into the plot, I’ll…
There’s nothing wrong, really, with The Smuggler and the Society Bride – it’s a pleasant-ish story about pleasant-ish people with a decent-ish plot and acceptable-ish prose. But, geez Louise in a wicker basket, is it ever blah. Julia Justiss’s latest is the third in the eight-book multi-author Silk & Scandal series dealing with virgins, rakes,…
On page 115, the hero asks the heroine’s opinion of his sketch. She gazes at it and says, “It is good. For a sketch….but it has no emotion.” I could not have summed it up better myself. It has been two years since Jack Vernon returned from the Battle of Badajoz, and his artistic career…
If it weren’t for one tiny thing, we’d have a solid read on our hands. As it is, all I can say is ew. <a href="http://www.likesbooks.com/banmanpro/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&Task=Click&Mode=HTML&SiteID=1&PageID=33387 ” target=”_blank”> <img src="http://www.likesbooks.com/banmanpro/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&Task=Get&Mode=HTML&SiteID=1&PageID=33387 ” width=”150″ height=”200″ border=”0″ alt=””> Theo Ravenhurst is an antiques dealer who, at the beginning of our tale, is roaming around Burgundy searching for a…
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