As a long time reviewer, I’m used to knowing exactly what I think about a book, and how to communicate my impressions to others. But I had to wait a few days after finishing Forbidden Shores to write the review, because I couldn’t quite decide what I thought. There were parts I loved, parts that…
I’ve been in a bit of a rut lately. Since starting a new job that requires me to drive instead of taking public transit, I’ve lost a solid two hours a day of prime reading time. Now I’m lucky if I squeeze in 15 minutes before bed. It’s also been a really long time since…
Despite its horrible title (Sin and Scandal in England) and cover (a shirtless man and a dress-falling-off-her-bare-back woman standing in the snow!) this is a good historical romantic suspense novel. Bethany Munroe is a science teacher’s assistant at the London Conservatory for Young Ladies. While women are still barred from attending University, this higher education…
When I was a ninth grader, I liked reading Rosemary Rogers books for the Forceful Heroes, the Feisty Heroines, and the s-e-x. Ninth graders everywhere are just going to love A Daring Passion. Frankly, the plot of this book is so clichéd and the prose so phenomenally purple I almost felt as if I should…
I should have realized what I was getting myself into by the almost naked man on the cover of Lord of the Deep. What I found inside was a sexual odyssey I could have never foreseen. I honestly will never view seals and trees the same way ever again due to their sexual interactions with…
Lessons of Desire is the second book in Hunter’s Rothwell Brothers series and details the complex relationship between the scholarly Elliot and Phaedra, the scandalous daughter of an even more scandalous mother. Phaedra is the daughter of the infamous Artemis Blair, a brilliant Roman scholar and outspoken proponent of “free love.” Artemis spent most of…
When I started Klondike Wedding, I thought I was in for a treat. I’ve enjoyed this author’s books before, and her tale of a marriage-by-proxy gone terribly wrong started off quite well. However, as unbelievable circumstances built up and an improbable suspense plot cluttered things up, I found myself unable to summon up much more…
I’ve often found that in a trilogy, the middle book is the weakest. This looks to be the case with Madame’s Deception, the middle book in Renee Bernard’s Mistress trilogy. Even though the final book hasn’t been published yet, it has to be better than this dull offering. After the success of her debut last…
I have long thought 1900 an arbitrary cut-off for determining what is and what is not a historical romance since the early years of the 20th century are filled with many events and settings perfect for drama and romance. In Perfidia, Elspeth McKendrick (who also writes as Morag McKendrick Pippin) takes the unlikely setting of…
Mariah Stewart’s new book, Last Breath, is labeled on the cover “a novel of suspense”, so you know from the start that the romance is going to come in second to the mystery. The novel is the third in a series featuring a family of FBI agents. While I’ve not read the previous books in…
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