The Thorn and the Thistle is wonderful entertainment. If you like romances that are well-written, exciting, and set in the Highlands, I’d like to recommend this book to you. It may not be filled with hidden levels and deep meaning, but it’s a heck of a good story and I’m about to glom Julie Moffett….
It’s at times like this that I wish The Romance Reader gave plus and minus ratings (see note at end of review), because Secret Thunder is surely more than a three, but somewhat less than a four. I am therefore giving this book a qualified 4-heart rating because the author has built in enough unique…
The opening of Falcon and the Sword is one of the most powerful I have read, and the ending is one of the most poignant. What’s in-between, however, falls short of the exciting beginning and is certainly not nearly as touching as the conclusion. At the beginning, there is Bron, a Templar Knight, a warrior…
Wild Dream is a romantic comedy of some charm, set in a mythical New Mexico town shortly after the Civil War. Alice Duncan’s flair for slapstick and clever comedy comes on too strong for the first part of the book, but then settles down to create some delightful romance between Adelaide Blewitt (pronounce her last…
Secrets in Satin is an amazingly good read. It is exciting, filled with political intrigue and danger without drowning in it. It is romantic as well, although the romance is written less personally than I generally prefer. Overall, this is an excellent book that would have been a Desert Isle Keeper had it not lost…
The Wild Baron is quite simply one of the most delightful books I’ve read. I applaud the panache and aplomb with which Catherine Coulter has created this diverting Regency-era tale of romance and suspense. While the spine of the book calls it simply a novel, its is part romance, part suspense, part pure farce. It…
A Whisper of Violets is as beautiful a romance as its title suggests. As a lovely, violet-eyed heiress joins up with a supposedly treasonous Earl to both clear his name and retrieve a musical score for her dying aunt, the reader is quickly captivated by each of their plights, and that as well of the…
Beauty of the Mist, I suspect, is a book that many romance readers will enjoy. Unfortunately, I cannot count myself among them, and am fully aware that by writing a negative review of this book, I should probably keep a fire extinguisher handy. The third in a medieval Scots trilogy, Beauty of the Mist is…
After noticing that author Margaret Moore had published several books in the past few years, and that none written for Harlequin Historicals had received above a rating of 3 from a leading romance publication, I became curious. Surely there must be something to her books, else why would she still be cranking them out? More…
I’ve long been an admirer of the writing of Lisa Ann Verge. Her Heaven in his Arms is one of my favorite Road Romances. So I keenly anticipated reading her latest release, Wild Irish Rose, which is another Road Romance. And while it took me awhile to appreciate this book, something unusual and very wonderful…
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