What a pleasure it is to read a debut romance from a promising author! Though a few plot elements struck me as…well, contrived and the second half of the book segued into some melodrama that was pretty darn melodramatic, Her Ladyship’s Companion should leave many historical romance readers hopeful that a new author might be…
Sunset Bay is the first book I’ve read by Susan Mallery. It’s about a responsible, obedient girl who falls in love with a bad boy when they’re young and meets him again when her world is falling apart. While I normally enjoy this type of story, I did not enjoy this book. With its predictable…
I really wanted to like The Tory Widow. It has a Revolutionary Period setting – one of my favorites – and an interesting conflict. It’s set in New York City, primarily from 1775-1777. It was a dangerous time when political winds shifted back and forth and figuring out loyalty was a tricky business. The heroine…
True Love and Other Disasters is Rachel Gibson’s latest entry into the world of professional hockey players, and is just as enjoyable as her previous releases. Faith Duffy is the former stripper, former Playboy Playmate, and just-widowed trophy wife of Virgil Duffy, a rich man 51 years her senior. In a surprise move, Virgil leaves…
Hard and Fast is the second installment in Erin McCarthy’s Fast Track series about race car drivers. It features two of the secondary characters that were introduced to each other and readers in the first book, Flat-Out Sexy, and I was looking forward to their story. Unfortunately, the book just didn’t gel for me for…
If there is one thing that William Chambers, Duke of Bedford, does not want, it is to get married. But life has taught him that duty and responsibility often call for one to do the necessary, rather than the preferred and sometimes the sacrifice must be made. It’s scarcely significant who the bride is as…
Jade Lee is a flexible author, indeed. Her previous books have covered the darker side of Regency England, as well as taking readers to Imperial China. Now, she turns her hand to fantasy romance. Dragonbound contains a lot more darkness and tragedy than the average romance I read, but somehow it makes the HEA seem…
I went back-and-forth with Deirdre Martin’s With A Twist almost the entire time I was reading it. Every time things started looking dire for the book, the author managed to turn them around. However, the ending just failed to redeem the book as a whole. Natalie Bocuse is a classy French lady who lives in…
More than most books, I think, this one isn’t going to change any minds. If you’re expecting to like it, you will. If you’re not, then you probably won’t. And, yep, to put to rest an issue that’s still out there, this first hardcover in the author’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series definitely qualifies as urban…
Mastering the Marquess is Vanessa Kelly’s first book and it’s a decent, although not exceptional debut. The story is pleasant and the characters are too, but the book was not one to linger in my mind. Meredith Burnley and her half sister Annabel are in a very uncomfortable situation. Annabel is wealthy from a legacy…
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