When I was given the chance to review the new Sue Margolis book, I jumped at it. I’m not a big reader of chick lit, but who could resist a title like Apocalipstick? While the rest of the book, it turns out, is as clever as the title, it clearly can’t be taken seriously, since…
Susan Squires’s Danegeld was one of the most pleasant surprises of 2001 for me. So I was excited to review its sequel Danelaw, and pleased to find that it was another rollicking good read. Epona is the last descendant of the Horse Goddess. She lives alone in her small cottage with only her herd of…
In my time reviewing, I’ve given plenty of D’s but very few F’s. I have a strict personal policy on what makes a book an F for me: A book can bore me or annoy me and still have a shot at a D, but in order for it to get an F, it has…
The Way You Look Tonight is one of what seems like an increasingly rare breed: it’s a contemporary romance. It’s not a comedy. It’s not romantic suspense. It’s not a women’s fiction or chick lit wannabe. It’s simply a nice story about two very nice people who like each other and slowly fall in love,…
The Charmer is a well crafted, solidly written book, but also an uneven one. That may be why, in the end, it’s an easier book to admire than to love. Adrian Burchard comes to Paris in search of reluctant duchess Sophia Raughley. After the recent death of her father, the Duke of Everdon, she inherited…
This collection of stories builds on the popular Lady Whistledown character from Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series. Each story features entries by the popular gossip columnist as well as interconnected characters and culmination of each story on Valentine’s Day. The continuity of the characters between each story was one of the best things about this anthology….
There was recently some discussion on the boards about how this book was similar to an earlier Wolf title, Beloved Stranger. I was a little concerned about reviewing it, since, having never read anything by Wolf before, the similarities would mean nothing to me. I needn’t have worried. If the story is derivative, that’s the…
Ana Seymour is a new author for me, and I was pleased enough by Master of Castle Glen to consider looking for other titles by her. Set in 1885 Glencolly, Scotland, the story begins with Fiona MacLennan, four months a widow, meeting the train that will bring the new laird of Castle Glen to claim…
I’ve only read a few books by Merline Lovelace, but in my limited experience she either writes books with richly developed romance and somewhat weak plots, or richly developed plots and somewhat weak romance. Even though After Midnight is an example of the latter, the intriguing mystery in this story is strong enough to make…
In the mid-1990s Evelyn Vaughn wrote a quartet of books featuring witch heroines for Silhouette’s late Shadows line. During the subsequent series romance embargo on paranormal tales, she published several historicals under her real name, Yvonne Jocks. Now that paranormal stories are slowly making a comeback in the series ranks, she’s back with a interesting…
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