Marriage by Design strings together one pleasant, mildly entertaining scene after another. But reading it is like getting only a bowl of soup for a meal. It’s nice at first, but eventually you want the main course to arrive. In this book, it never does. Mia Savard is thirty, unmarried, and tired of brides. This…
The medieval romance is such an endangered species that it needs all the advocates it can get. For that reason alone, I wish I could recommend Lady’s Choice. But what the subgenre really needs is good medievals, not merely competent, middling ones like this. On her sister Adela’s wedding day, Sorcha Macleod eagerly waits to…
Secrets anthologies feature erotic and romantic short stories. The quality varies from volume to volume as well as from author to author. Unfortunately, I can recommend only one out of the four entries in this latest Secrets volume, while the other three range from below average to downright silly.
When the wives of Henry VIII are discussed, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn seem to get the most attention. Jane Seymour is often an afterthought, described most often as the plain, shy, and dutiful girl who bore the king’s only legitimate son. Thankfully, Gardner goes beyond this description and breathes life in her lead…
We’ve had amnesia and the small town sheriff, and we’ve had the secret pregnancy, so clearly it was time for The Elliotts to have a top secret spy. While this is probably just as unlikely as the aforementioned pregnancy and amnesia scenarios, I found that it worked much better as a fantasy (at least for…
When your husband dies, leaving you responsible for dear old seriously ill dad and your roguish but lovable servants – when your husband dies and leaves you without funds and at the mercy of the male relative come to claim the estate, what’s a virgin widow (come on, this is an Avon historical after all)…
Scandal is the third in Harlequin Blaze’s time-travel miniseries Perfect Timing, and my favorite entry so far. While it certainly has its flaws, Julie Kistler delivers an entertaining romp against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair. After four years of work on her dissertation, grad student Jordan Albright is no closer to finishing. Her…
No matter how deliciously erotic the love scenes might be, the simple truth is that they’re not-so-erotic when the characters who feature in them are brats. Make that spoiled, immature brats. The author’s style is so appealing, quite frankly, that writing this review isn’t a pleasure. But, regretfully, hero, Marcus, Lord Eldridge, and Elizabeth, Lady…
I’ve been in something of a reading slump lately and have skipped around amidst genres to try and pique my interest. I’ve had some hits with romantic suspense (Karen Rose, Allison Hunt, Cindy Gerard, Jeanie London) and picked the latest by Rita Herron because of that. Was it a hit? No. But not necessarily a…
Dead Silence is textbook romantic suspense in the sense that the reader more or less knows what happened (or is going to happen), but spends the book waiting for the characters to figure it all out. It’s the first book in a series, all centering around a Mississippi family with a dark secret. Well, semi-secret….
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