The Rakehell’s Reform has an extremely melancholy air about it, one which never goes away, even when good things happen. The sadness in the lives of Rakehell Jack Ramsay and bourgeoisie Selina Preston permeate every page of the book, so that there is never a sense of joy to be felt, and that includes the…
I’ve only read a few Regencies, but I’ve long since had a mental block against them. The picture I always get in my mind comes from a classic I Love Lucy episode where Ricky has refused to star in a play set in Cuba, so Lucy re-writes the play, setting it in England, for Ethel,…
The Persistent Earl is Major John Allen Jameson, the Earl of Devenham. He has come to the home of his friend, Sir Edward Allington, to recuperate from his war wounds. Devenham has a notorious reputation, and Edward’s wife Judith isn’t at all sure she wants him in her home, especially since her widowed sister, Lady…
Up Island is that part of Martha’s Vineyard where the year-round residents live. It is hard to get to in the best of times, and is downright inhospitable in the winter. It is also where Atlantan Coca-Cola “company-wife” Molly Redwine is healed after her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her difficult mother…
A Place to Call Home is one of the best contemporary romances I have read in a long time. It takes place in Dunderry, Georgia – a small town populated by the descendants of Irish immigrants, the most prominent of whom are the Malloy and Delaney families. Claire Malloy is the main character and the…
I bought Lovescape for the Dara Joy story in it and got a bonus – all the stories in this anthology are very good. I liked some better than others, but I enjoyed all of them – something I can’t say about many anthologies.
Perfect Timing should appeal not only to women, but to men. How could it not when it involves flying, sci-fi-entific jargon, governmental conspiracy, murder, and greed? All that, and romance too. This is a decent read, but a confusing one in that the set up takes far too long. Eighty pages went by before I…
Retired Air Force Colonel Merline Lovelace is quite prolific, writing full-length suspense, contemporary, series, and historical romance. Until now, my favorite book by her was the medieval, Lady’s Ransom. What struck me so much about that book was the sense of honor and responsibility the hero and heroine felt, and the fact that neither whined,…
Oh, those tormented heroes and heroines. Life is just so darn hard for many of them that it takes a whole book to end the torment. Even one lead character spending the entire book in deep mental anguish is frustrating for me as a reader – but both, well, let’s just say that I’m not…
I love a story with a military flavour, and while this book didn’t indicate that there was any military connection on the back blurb, the minute I started reading this book, I was hooked from page 1. This was one of the first LaVyrle Spencer books I read, and rereading it for about the fifteenth…
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