As a 747 pilot for United Airlines, there is little doubt that Susan Grant has been forced to confront more directly than most of us the enormous changes September 11, 2001 brought to our world. Drawing on her unique credentials and front-line perspective, Susan Grant has delivered a story of unusual depth and power that,…
I tried to finish Anne Gracie’s An Honorable Thief while walking up a hill on the way to work this morning but couldn’t manage it. So, I did what anyone in my position would do; I sat out in front of my office building until I had finished. It couldn’t be helped, you see –…
Huzzah and hooray – a really great traditional Regency Romance has arrived, and just in time! Right on the heels of Blythe Barnhill’s report on the gloomy forecast for this genre at the RWA Conference, Elizabeth Powell shows why us die-hard fans are, um, dying so hard in the face of the publishing industry’s fiscal…
Uncommon Vows is my favorite among Mary Jo Putney’s books, more romantic to me than even the wonderful Shattered Rainbows. Putney’s only medieval begins under the omen of an eclipse of the moon whose light is devoured by shadow on the night of a Christmas tragedy. Fifteen year old Adrian de Lancey, a nobleman’s youngest…
If Connie Brockway can do it, why can’t Hollywood? Bridal Favors is, to put it simply, as close to a perfect romantic comedy as you are ever likely to find. It’s funny, charming, unputdownable, and contains at its heart an utterly adorable romance between two equally adorable characters. And, as I laughed out loud and…
In a recent Potpourri Message Board discussion someone asked what trends we’d like to see started. Number one on my list would be something new and fresh in an historical set in the Regency. Yes, the period has been done to death, but I still pick them up and hope the author will make me…
It is the 1540s. Suleiman the Magnificent is the sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The tsar of Russia is a man who will someday be known as Ivan the Terrible. England is ruled by the boy-king Edward VI. Mary Queen of Scots is four, and she will be used as a pawn in the high-stakes…
I confess – I initially put off reading Prospect Street, Emilie Richards’ hardcover debut novel. It’s a rather long book, a little intimidating looking, and sometimes reviewing longer books can be a chore, especially if they don’t hold your interest. It turned out, that was not something I should have worried about. From the first…
Beast by Judith Ivory is one of my two all-time favorite romance books and also simply one of the best books I have ever read. When I read books or watch movies, afterwards I have a certain feel for them, a textural sensation. Beast has left me with one of the richest, most voluptuous “feels”…
Let me state that it is difficult to summarize Black Silk without doing it an injustice, because this book, this story, these characters and their interpersonal relations are so unusual, so remarkable, and so complex that the whole is near nigh irreducible. I mean, is it possible to admire the Mona Lisa a square inch…
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