I’ve read every book, with the exception of one, that Anne Rice has written, including her S&M fantasies, and have thoroughly enjoyed most of them, even when they’ve “weirded me out”. At her best, the author creates entirely new worlds for readers to explore. At her worst, the author veers into self-indulgent pap. Luckily, she’s…
If you are fond of romances that are driven by “the big misunderstanding” then you will probably enjoy Threads of Destiny. It is a book filled with passion, history, deception, intrigue, and good folk and bad folk, but mostly it is about two people who refuse to be honest with each other and yet find…
The Gamble is a book that starts out with an intriguing premise, sets up some interesting characters, abruptly has the heroine make several blatantly stupid moves to keep the plot going, then unravels completely at the end. Too bad, too. Joan Wolf writes very appealing characters, and I had been looking forward to this book….
Romances set in the regency period are being written more and more with strong heroines (the only kind of heroine, to my thinking), and Joan Wolf has certainly done her share to promote this change. The heroine in The Gamble is a great example of a strong heroine. Part of the time. I hate to…
Science Fiction/Fantasy and Romance go together perfectly in my opinion, and nobody combines the two better than Jayne Castle. Orchid is the third in Castle’s St. Helens space colony series, and the best of the lot. Orchid Adams is, like the heroines from the other two books in the series (Amaryllis and Zinnia) a top…
If the game of love for Honoria Wetherby and Devil Cynster is best described as an irresistible force meeting an immovable object, then the biggest question would have to be: Who is the immovable object and who is the irresistible force? Both characters are truly fascinating and completely well-matched. Honoria’s and Devil’s clash of wills,…
Whether or not you take the bet on Laura Parker’s The Gamble depends on how tortured and difficult to love you like your heroes. Because Viscount Darlington, scarred both inside and out by a brutal father, is about as tortured and difficult to love as a hero can get. The book opens when he kills…
I love the Victorian period as much as a lot of romance readers love the Regency period. True, the Victorian age was not as glittering and outwardly colorful as the Regency, but it was a dynamic time full of change, especially for women, and it marked the zenith of the British Empire. I started Never…
Here’s Lookin’ at You begins in the hero’s point of view, which I took as a good sign – the prologue and the first chapter are great fun. With such a sparkling set up, I was primed for a fabulous read. While the book has some great, bawdy humor and touching moments, it is sometimes…
Catherine Anderson has written an exciting contemporary novel in Forever After. I must warn you that it is not for the squeamish. There is violence in the book, along with strong language and descriptions of the emotional and sexual abuse of Meredith, the heroine, that were almost painful to read. On the plus side, Forever…
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