Lost in Almack’s by Lesley-Anne McLeod is a very short story published in ebook format – the publishing house calls it “A Regency Romance Byte”. It’s not without promise, albeit a bit uneven, but what really shocked me was the price when I looked it up after I’d read my ARC. To shell out three…
You know, I like cotton candy as much as the next person. But, even if it were made in France and spun from cane sugar and cost $25 a pop, it’s still cotton candy. The Wicked Duke Takes a Wife is gourmet cotton candy – stylish, sweet, excellently spun, and completely and utterly trivial. Harriet…
My history professor was fond of the word reductive. While it is reductive to say that the French Revolution was caused by the revolt of the Third Estate, it is equally reductive to summarize the plot of this book as “Julian, Viscount Braybrook, hires Christiana Daventry as governess-companion and they fall in love and marry…
I don’t read that many paranormals, but when I got a short plot summary about Linda Wisdom’s Hex in High Heels I was intrigued and asked to review it, in spite of the fact that it’s the fourth volume in a series, and the cover is very pink. Although I disliked chunks of backstory I…
I remember reading some of Diane Haeger’s earlier work when I was in high school and college, and I’m glad to see that she is writing again. Even though we have several gazillion books about Henry VIII and his wives, she manages to take a well-covered subject and make it feel fresh. The Queen’s Mistake…
Lovers of tortured characters will have a field day with Captive of Sin. It’s a sweeping, larger than life historical romance filled with passion, angst and suffering. I thought the beginning was about as good as an historical romance can get, and I was about to proclaim it a DIK before a rushed ending knocked…
When I read the premise for Wildfire – an environmentalist and a construction worker fall in love – I was really looking forward to it. Unfortunately, I found the book lacking in all the critical areas. When the epilogue is the only part of the book you like, that’s a big problem. Joanna Webb dedicates…
It being October, and near Halloween, I was more than willing to read a paranormal romance. I’m not sure that My Wicked Vampire fulfilled my craving, but on the whole, there was nothing incredibly right or wrong about the book. The word “average” really sticks in my mind; the story is light, a little sketchy…
I enjoyed Wild Magic and was particularly captivated by the heroine. While the romance was a bit weak, I liked the world the author created, and can recommend the book to fans of paranormal romance. To all appearances, Irenee Sable is the privileged daughter of a wealthy Chicago family and a suburban event planner. In…
The eldest of the Duke of Bransford’s three sons, Royal Dewar has lived the past seven years in Barbados overseeing the operation of his family’s plantation. He’s called home to his father’s death bed and is shocked to see the family estate in great need of repair and missing many of its paintings and household…
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