Editor’s note: We have added sound samples below the review. Narrated by Nicholas Boulton Medieval romances aren’t a great favorite of mine. I will admit that I haven’t read a large number of them, but most of those I have read have been too anachronistic for my taste. Of course, there is going to be…
In Once Upon a Tartan we renew our acquaintance with the MacGregors of Balfour, previously seen in The Bridegroom Wore Plaid, which was one of my favourite books of last year. (And which figured on my recent AAR Top Ten list). Unlike many authors embarking upon trilogies featuring siblings, Grace Burrowes chose not to allocate…
Narrated by Corrie James What the Duke Desires is the first in a new series of books, The Duke’s Men, by Sabrina Jeffries, and I certainly plan to read/listen to the others in the series on the strength of this one. Lisette Bonnaud and her brother, Tristan, are the illegitimate children of Viscount Rathmore and his…
Not only does serendipity happen, Cullinan says in her latest gay romance, but we have to be ready to clutch it, live it, and enjoy it, no matter how anally we’ve been trying to arrange ourselves and the world around us. College junior Walter Lucas is angry when he finds out he won’t be able…
When you are constantly reading books for review, it is sometimes hard to continuously hope for good writing in each novel. Then you finally see it again and you say to yourself, “There you are! I have missed you!” That is what makes this job worthwhile. Sophie Jordan’s How to Lose a Bride in One…
I absolutely loved this book. I’m woefully behind on the Pink Carnation series, but I jumped at the chance to review this one, not least because it has rather a USP (Unique Selling Point) in the genre – namely that the hero and heroine are of more mature years (he’s fifty-four, she’s forty-five). That certainly…
Narrated by Kate Reading This is the tenth installment in the wonderful Pink Carnation books, a Regency era series based on a league of spies with floral pseudonyms which started with the Scarlet Pimpernel. Ok, The Scarlet Pimpernel wasn’t the first book, but the inspiration for the league – well, you just have to start…
This book is the sixth in Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series and in my opinion the strongest to date in this 18th-century storyline. Of course, I must confess I have not read Winter’s story yet, and if that novel is better than Duke of Midnight then it would deserve a solid A because it was…
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton The Publisher’s Blurb*: They called him the Prince of Midnight – a legendary highwayman, once dashing and dangerous… now a tarnished, forgotten hero, exiled and alone. She sought his fabled skills in the ruins of a French castle – a proud and desperate English beauty, drawn to the myth… but bewildered…
Alyssa Everett is an author whose name on a cover is already guaranteed to make me take at least a second look, even though she has only (so far) published two books. I listened to the audio version of her earlier Ruined by Rumor a few months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite the fact…
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