The Devlin Diary is my first read by Christi Phillips, and I found it to be an absorbing journey into Restoration Era London. Although it is the second in a series featuring Claire Donovan and Andrew Kent, it definitely stands on its own. Hannah Devlin is a widow illegally doctoring the indigent citizens of London…
I thought it might be a mistake reading False Colors right after Transgressions, but despite similarities, they were quite different. While both are M/M romances with the same publisher and a strong sense of history, False Colors tells the story of both men equally, even when they are apart – sometimes separated by an ocean….
Shana Abe is an author that I’ve been really looking forward to reading. Unfortunately, The Treasure Keeper isn’t the book I should have read first. The lack of momentum and an unsympathetic heroine failed to pull me into the world of Abe’s drakon. Zoe Lane is a female drakon and, although she is unable to…
Harlequin Presents mini-gloms are a springtime tradition for me since something about the advent of warm weather awakens this wish for a little reading streak of modern-day fairytales. It was during my HP-fest this spring that I chanced upon The Ruthless Billionaire’s Virgin. Though not the best series book I’ve read, the author does have…
It’s not often I read a book set in the Renaissance period, so imagining the characters’ dress and dwellings was a bit difficult as I began reading The Promise – or it was until I realized that its historical setting is the same as the TV series The Tudors. (I never miss an episode). Historical…
No one could say that Under Fire is realistic, elegantly written, or populated with believable characters. I’ve read books like that. Some are excellent, and some are elegant, but kind of dull. Then there’s Under Fire. Nothing is realistic, everything is over the top, and the plot could only happen in bizarro world. But it’s…
I had hopes. Oh, how I had hopes. But alas, my Lady Defiant was a little too (urk) defiant for me. Oriel Robinson is twenty years of age and living with her detested relatives in the northern boondocks of Elizabethan England. As a great heiress, she receives many suitors in their corner of the island,…
Transgressions is one of the first in the Running Press line of male/male romances. While I had some issues with viewpoint switches, I was impressed, especially by the sense of history – England’s Civil War is too rarely seen in romances. However, this book is not for the squeamish as the dark side of history…
If you enjoy sweet romances set in small towns, Rewriting Monday may be just the book for you. While slow-paced, I found the book to be an enjoyable read, with a cast of interesting characters. Pepper Malone was a successful journalist in Chicago when she got too close to a source and ruined her career….
After last year’s Bakery Sisters series, I was looking forward to Susan Mallery’s latest trilogy, this time about three heiress sisters living in Texas. Unfortunately, the first entry in the series, Under Her Skin, just didn’t work for me on a couple of levels. Lexi Titan is the oldest of three sisters, and heiress to…
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