With this novel, Mary Jo Putney’s Guardian series gets a makeover. The books will no longer be a part of Ballantine’s Romance wing, but moves to the publishing house’s SF/Fantasy adjunct, Del Rey, and Mary Jo Putney becomes M. J. Putney. While the fantasy elements in the series merit the move, rest assured that the…
To a casual browser, The Naked Duke looks like a light Regency-era historical romance, and it does have its share of witty banter and eccentric characters. But it also hearkens back to the old fashioned bodice-ripper, especially when it comes to the villain, who is a skanky piece of evilness with rape and murder on…
The best word to describe Marsha Canham’s My Forever Love would be solid. Considering how hard it is to find good medievals these days, that should be taken as a ringing endorsement. It’s nothing earth-shattering and is a little on the slow side, but it’s also well-written and vivid, with an interesting spin on real-life…
Rebecca York is an author who’s specialized in writing some unusual stories over the years. Nowhere Man is one of the very best of her roughly five dozen releases. Part military action thriller, part mystery, part poignant romance, it also creates a compelling and unique hero unlike any other in the title character. Targeted for…
Time-travel romances often take their characters into the past or bring them to the present, but the future seldom seems to be the destination of choice. While most futuristics seem to involve aliens, space travel and other worlds, I’ve always had a soft spot for SF tales of the future right here on planet earth,…
Last year I discovered Lisa Kleypas after giving in to word-of-mouth recommendations and picking up Dreaming of You. I’ve been steadily working my way through her backlist ever since. So when the chance to review her latest arose, I jumped at it. It was definitely worth the opportunity to read early, as this book passed…
Kinley MacGregor’s latest offering, Born In Sin, is a redemption story, and quite a good one, as it happens. If there were a little more to it, it could have made the jump to DIK without much effort, but as it stands, it’s still a truly enjoyable read. Lord Sin, with his improbable (but well-explained)…
When this book started out, I liked it so much I planned to grant it Desert Isle Keeper status. It had everything I like: a moderately tortured hero and a heroine who appears to have some intelligence; an interesting and unique storyline; and good secondary characters. That makes it all the more disheartening that the…
The Discarded Duke was a decent story with an interesting setting and sense of place. Butler got caught up in the most common traditional Regency trap, though. She tried to do too much in her book, and the result is several stories that don’t quite feel convincing. Ursula, Lady Roarke is a widow whose gambler…
“Whatever happened to Marion Chesney?” My sister Anne, who is The Pickiest Reader In The World, but loves Marion Chesney asked me that question a while back. Also, a few weeks ago, several AAR reviewers mentioned Marion Chesney and how much they enjoyed her wonderful light traditional Regency Romances. Marion Chesney is still writing but…
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