In her debut novel, Ruth Axtell Morren tackles a difficult and often controversial subject: Conversion of non-Christians. In this story, young Methodist Althea Breton goes to work as a nurse in the household of Simon Aguilar. Simon, a widower, is a fairly young member of the House of Commons and a member of the Church…
Two of the better Harlequin Blazes I read last year were Guilty Pleasures by Cathy Yardley, which employed a food theme, and Every Move You Make by Tori Carrington. So I had high hopes for Flavor of the Month, a new food-themed Blaze by Carrington. This book didn’t live up to them. There are some…
Lord Fenmore’s Wager has charming characters. Diana Hamilton is lovely and Julian, Lord Fenmore is charming and handsome. If their relationship lacks a bit of spark – well, I have no problem with a nice, sweet story at all. The Hamilton family is a good one, but they don’t have a lot of good fortune….
The characters in Wicked Wager are ones I love. Tony, Viscount Nelthorpe, is a rake, trying to live down his past. Jenna, Lady Fairchild, is an intelligent, mature woman. They know each other from the past, and Jenna has always despised him. But times and circumstances have changed for both of them. Had Tony not…
There are several ingredients in How to Treat a Lady that should have made it harder for me to enjoy this book than I did. Dialogue that sounded a bit anachronistic to my ear, and that creaky old plot device, amnesia, should have turned me off. But I discovered that in the right author’s hands,…
Emily’s Beau starts at the beginning of the Season in 1818, when Jacob Winters, the Earl of Hawthorne, is notified that he has a ward. A young woman, the daughter of one of the officers who had served with the Earl’s father in India, was left in his care after the death of her mother….
The Seductive One is an aptly named book. It has more than its share of hackneyed moments and plot devices, yet it casts such a spell with its sweet characters and compelling character drama that the clichés are easy to overlook. Brenna Marcelli and Nicholas Giovanni once shared a forbidden love, forbidden because of the…
It’s a shame Unspeakable has already been used for the title of a book by Sandra Brown. It would perfectly fit Hello, Darkness in several ways. The book is unspeakably boring, the characters are unspeakably irritating, and the suspense plot is unspeakably obvious. Charging people $26 for this? That’s the most unspeakable thing of all….
Dance with the Devil picks up right where Night Embrace left off. At least that’s what I’m assuming based on the names of the lead characters in the review of the prequel (without having read the previous books in this series). There are so many secondary characters and brief mentions about back-story and memories that…
Flirting With Disaster may be that rare case of too much of a good thing. It’s sharply written and features uncommonly well-drawn characters for a romantic adventure story. Everything that’s good about it is so good it’s difficult to explain why I couldn’t embrace it even more wholeheartedly. Ultimately it comes down to this: the…
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