Sleepless in Scotland features a wonderfully likeable heroine, who ends up married to a hero who has got to be one of the most clueless males on the face of the earth. He is a textbook image of the hero who is Too Stupid To Realize what a wonderful wife he has. Thankfully, she is…
If you’re like me, you feel a bit smug when your page 30-hypothesis turns out to be true. But you also count it a huge bonus that you enjoyed the book nonetheless. Mary Grey is enjoying a day’s rest by Hadrian’s Wall when she is suddenly accosted by a handsome stranger, Connor Winslow, who mistakes…
Alice Raymond is pregnant, alone, and suddenly wielding some uncontrollable gypsy magic. Somehow she has to find a way to cope with being pregnant by a dirtbag ex-boyfriend, break the news to her family, and figure out what the deal is with her new-found abilities. If that weren’t enough, she has five months to find…
Pirate romances seem to be a love ’em or hate ’em type of book. I’ve enjoyed a number of the pirate books of recent years, and when I saw The Infamous Rogue on our review list, I eagerly snatched it up. However, the author takes a rather implausible situation and then compounds the problem by…
Tamed By a Laird was the most difficult book to get through in recent memory. Not because there was anything tremendously wrong with it, nothing that so offended me as a reader that this review is written with outrage. Actually, those books are often easier to get through than this book, which was just boring….
When was the last time you read a romance set in the earliest days of the Jazz Age? Whistling in the Dark not only features an unusual setting but two heroes who face ordinary struggles such as keeping a family business afloat. I also loved the insight into the earliest days of radio, before the…
That powerless feeling of being accused of something you didn’t do is frightening. After all, people don’t live their lives planning how to defend themselves in the face of wrongful accusation and proving that negative creates a riveting backdrop for more than a few romantic suspense and mystery novels. Though Fugitive Family has its weaker…
Good prose is the one thing that can elevate a book from greatness to splendor, so when I want a real Regency I turn to Georgette Heyer. However, The Quiet Gentleman is proof positive that excellent prose alone does not an excellent book make. Gervase Frant, newly minted Earl of St. Erth, has finally come…
After a couple of so-so romances, I often turn to Chick Lit. Although not every Chick Lit book is fabulous, even the mediocre ones tend to have slightly different foibles than mediocre romances. Happily, Crossing Washington Square was better than mediocre. It has an academic setting, and one of the main characters studies popular literature….
Where the Wind Blows is a pleasant Western romance and reading it was a nice change of pace from all the paranormals out there. I used to love Western romances (Maggie Osborne, I really miss you), and it’s been a long time since I’ve read a really good one. While I can’t say this was…
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