For some time now, if I wanted to read a series romance DIK, I had to go rummage in my box of keepers. Current series romances simply didn’t engage me. I can’t get into the usual secret baby/rancher/SEAL/spy scenarios that have been so popular lately, and the hip urban chicks of the Blaze line leave…
Connie Brockway brings her Rose Hunters trilogy to a close with My Surrender. Readers grumbling about the dearth of serious historical romances – grumble no more. This is an intense and very satisfying book. Charlotte Nash is the last of the sisters whose father gave his life in a French prison. Charlotte acts as companion…
I’m going to say it right up front. Ms. Balogh’s books have always been hit or miss for me, with a few more misses than hits in the mix. So what prompted my request to review Simply Unforgettable? Can I tell you a secret? A colleague, who generally loves most of this author’s work, didn’t…
Readers in recent years have complained that the rich, interesting historicals of the past are vanishing. As a reader, I certainly have found myself buying fewer books overall as the meaty historicals I loved started to be replaced by and large with homogenized wallpaper comedies. Fortunately, there are still some good and interesting historicals out…
Nicholas Sparks says that “Romance novels have happy endings while love stories are not bound by this requirement. Love stories usually end tragically or at best, on a bittersweet note.” One of the best love stories ever written is Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, which is bittersweet indeed. Read it or watch the movie sometime…
Lately it seems as though historical fiction is succeeding in doing two things for me that many historical romances no longer do: Delivering a strong sense of time and place set against real life events and sending the reader on glorious flights of fancy. Marrying Mozart is just such a tale. Though it is fiction…
On the Scent is a thoroughly original and wonderfully different romantic mystery. It features M.J. Rodgers’s trademark intelligent characters and creative touches. Most of all, it’s just a lot of fun. Diann Torrey is the head chemist for the American perfume company Man to Woman. While in Paris for the International Fragrance Fraternity’s annual symposium,…
“Jane Austen meets Genghis Khan on the set of Lawrence of Arabia.” – that’s how author Kate Elliott sums up Jaran. It’s an apt description for a rich tapestry of a novel filled with adventure, romance, and clashing cultures, all combined with a certain comedy of manners sensibility about which I believe Miss Austen would…
Jo Leigh’s Scent of a Woman is a keeper in the truest sense. It’s not perfect, and I’m not sure I would have given it a grade of “A” when it first came out. But it’s a book I’ve kept and reread several times over the last few years, and I appreciate it more and…
Okay, so sexy (British, no less!) 33-year old billionaires are pretty scarce on the ground. Ditto a mid-twenties professional female thief who scales walls and enters lavish mansions through sun roofs and windows to steal rare objects of art. But, anybody willing to forget about reality and let themselves go with Ms. Enoch’s improbable, over-the-top,…
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