This book took me a while to pick up. I had read the previous in the Darkest London series and was holding a serious grudge against the hero. Though that eventually wore off, Winterblaze took the series into turns that I am not sure I liked, though in the end I did enjoy seeing the…
With all the dukes populating the Romancelandia district of Regency England, I am always predisposed to like any Regency romance that features ordinary people. Susanna Fraser’s An Infamous Marriage, is about a recently knighted army general and his wife, a former poor relation to no one noble at all, and it proved a refreshing and…
Seduced by Her Highland Warrior is a book I liked but didn’t love. It’s somewhat unique in that the couple has already been married for several years at the start of the book. And that’s several years where they have been together, not several years during which one or the other ran off because of…
The title Stranded With Her Ex is rather sordid and suggests deserted tropical islands and bickering that turns into sex. The story, however, is not that at all. I was very pleasantly surprised to find a story with true heart and depth. Daniela Flores is a marine biologist signed on to a research project in…
Trial by Desire is elegantly written. The plot is nice and meaty, the heroine is intelligent and capable and the hero is a tortured soul struggling toward self-knowledge. By all counts I should have loved it, but I ended up only liking it about an average amount. Lady Kathleen Carhart is beautiful and accomplished. Her…
I’m a big fan of Jennifer Ashley, whose characters are always fantastic and well written. I actually had to stop myself reading Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage so quickly, because that would mean it’d be over soon and I would have to wait for her to write another book. I had a ton of fun reading,…
I love Elizabeth Thornton’s writing for one important reason: her heroes trust their women. There are no ridiculous scenes of jealousy or accusations, and when her heroes are wrong, they actually (gasp) apologize. There are no drawn-out, big misunderstandings here – and that’s a very good thing. In Cherished, Lady Emily Brockton and Leon Devereux…
If you want to read Sherry Thomas’s third novel, Not Quite a Husband, choose a moment when you have some time to yourself, because this is a book not so much to devour, but to savor at leisure, like a glass of excellent wine. A short prologue provides us with a glimpse of the deep…
I’ve enjoyed Kristi Gold’s romances before, but off the top of my head, I can’t think of any one that was truly special. In Fall from Grace, one of the debut romances in Harlequin’s new Everlasting line (which explore romantic relationships over a period of time), she truly impresses with a heartfelt story about the…
I’m always interested in romance novels that play with the format a little, where the author tells her story in a way that’s different than the norm. French Twist is a book like that, which is why I know it won’t work for everyone. Judged by conventional standards of how a romance novel should work,…
End of content
End of content