Highland Scoundrel has a lot to recommend it. It has humor, action, and intrigue. The hero and heroine are both interesting, and the secondary characters are full of personality. There are plots and subplots everywhere. It’s a little hard to keep up with it all, but it’s worth it. Shona MacGowan is the only daughter…
Rosalyn Alsobrook and Victoria Barrett joined forces a couple of years ago to write a series of romances centered at The Seascape Inn – a bed and breakfast in Maine. According to my records, The Perfect Stranger is second in the series; six have been written so far. These sweet romances occur when strangers meet…
It was with some trepidation that I began The Flame and the Flower. On one hand, I had heard many readers say that their love of the romance genre started when they read this book. On the other hand, I had heard people talk with scorn about “those romances of the seventies.” Since I was…
Okay, before I begin this review, let me say that I was biased in reading this book, as Andrea Kane is one of my favorites. The Theft is a spin-off of the first story of hers that I read, Yuletide Treasure, which appeared in the Christmas anthology, Gift of Love. As an added bonus, The…
New Orleans and the Cajun country of Louisiana, are the background for Michelle Jerott’s Golden Heart Award-winning book, Absolute Trouble, and a wonderful book it is. Absolute Trouble has a wounded heroine, a bad boy hero, a drug-dealing slug of a villain, and some great supporting characters. Mix all these with a fast-paced plot and…
I have loved many books by Linda Howard – this is not one of them. I grew up in Alabama, where Shades of Twilight is set, and I’ve been fighting the very sort of stereotypes it depicts my whole life. I’ve been reading romance since I was a teen, and while I’ve read scenes of…
Lord of Sunset is an historical novel about the life of Harold of Wessex, the last Saxon king of England. Harold is a shadowy historical character, best known as an embroidered figure on the Bayeaux tapestry. Parke Godwin takes this figure and brings him to three-dimensional life. Harold is the second son of a powerful…
Patricia McLinn’s Widow Woman just missed being a keeper. The elements are there, but it was, ironically, the author’s excellent depiction of the hero which ended up detracting from what otherwise is a first-rate read. This is author McLinn’s first full-length historical, and I’ll be at the front of the line for her next. Well,…
I frankly don’t know what to say about this book. But, if you’re willing to stay with me here, I’m willing to take a stab at it. Have you read James Fenimore Cooper’s, The Last of the Mohicans? Voluntarily? Or did you study only parts of it in the tenth grade, as I did? This…
I am one picky reader. I want humor. I want passion. I want two very strong people who respect themselves and each other. I don’t often find a book where I get all these things. Lucky me – I picked up Daring as a spur-of-the-moment purchase, and found a book that has all of these…
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