I’ve been waiting for this book from Lorraine Heath, which returns us to the world of the Scandalous Gentlemen of Saint James. Our hero is Viscount Langdon, the son of the Earl of Claybourne (In Bed with the Devil) and our heroine, Marlowe, is an infamous courtesan. It’s 1879 and Langdon is languishing on his…
If you’re a fan of historical romance, you’re probably also a fan of Lorraine Heath. I’m both, but I didn’t like this book. The characters are clichéd, the dialogue is wooden, and the writing – well, if the cover didn’t say Ms. Heath wrote it, I wouldn’t have believed it. In An Affair with a…
I’ve read and enjoyed the previous books in this trilogy – When the Duke Was Wicked and Once More My Darling Rogue, finding both to be enjoyable with strongly written central characters and well developed romances. My favourite by a nose is the first, which is a really emotional read that delivered more than one…
I have been fairly lucky over the course of my reading career in that I have seldom been faced with main characters that I genuinely dislike. Normally I’m able to find at least one redeeming feature about each character. Lady Ophelia Lyttleton did not succeed in breaking that record, but she was bothersome enough that…
This is the first in a new series by this author, in which the protagonists are the offspring of the characters in her Scoundrels of St. James series. I admit that I haven’t (yet) read any of those books, but I certainly plan to on the strength of this one. I was engrossed by When…
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