The American Heiress in Europe is a particular interest of mine. Likewise I utterly love the Victorian period, so I was very happy to get the book The Perfect Scandal for review. The more I read, the madder I got. If didn’t know better, I would swear that this book was a parody of the…
I don’t know where Linda Howard wants to go with her writing, but wherever that is, I sure hope she keeps writing romance novels. True, I’ve not loved every book she’s written (I’ve read them all), and I’ve hated some of her heroes as much as I’ve loved others. But, when it comes to writing…
Highland Treasure is different from other Scottish romances that I have read, and I enjoyed the unique perspective. It takes place in 1753, after the second Jacobite rebellion, which in itself is not unique. What makes it different is that the hero is a Campbell who didn’t fight for Bonnie Prince Charlie – he was…
When I was growing up, TV abounded with old westerns in which the good guys were always freshly bathed and clean shaven, the bad guys were always dirty with five o’clock shadows, and the Indians were white people dressed in buckskins and black wigs. Lone Eagle would make a marvelous script for one of those…
I really wanted to like Ariel’s Dance . I like futuristic movies, but I’ve never really tried science fiction or futuristic romance. At first, I thought my lack of avid interest in this type of romance might be the problem. But I separated the romance from the futuristic portion and found I still didn’t really…
When a novel gets off to a really bad start, it’s pretty difficult to recover, and Three Kisses has a very bad beginning. Too much information is packed into a short space, and my progress was slowed by some awkward passages. Though the novel got a little better, I never recovered from that initially bad…
Belva Plain’s novels have a movie-of-the-week quality to them, and I don’t mean that in a pejorative sense. They remind me more of those Hallmark Hall of Fame movies than the Woman in Peril/disease-of-the-week variety that are staples today. It’s hard to say why her books have this quality, because they would not be particularly…
I’m not a big fan of anthologies, but I enjoyed this one–probably because it contained four longer stories intend of five shorter ones. The paranormal elements added to the stories, and all the stories had elements of humor as well.
The Rebel is the third installment in the Men of Pride County series, and it is definitely a departure from the other two. While the hero is a man from Pride County, almost all of the story is set in territorial New Mexico. And unlike the other two, the bulk of the story takes place…
While I’ve enjoyed many a Stephen King movie in the past, including Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Shining, I’ve never read one of his novels before. When I heard he had written a haunted love story that he deemed a combination gothic romance/ghost story, I decided to give it a try. At…
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