The Trouble with Moonlight had a silly set-up with very little follow-through, and a relationship that was all follow-through and very little set-up. The result is a lot of wheel-spinning alternating with great leaps that left me shaking my head. The females in Lusinda Havershaw’s family are Nevidimi, women with “special gifts.” Lusinda’s gift is…
Sandra Schwab has received two B’s here at AAR, and the blurb to Bewitched spoke of a klutzy witch having a London Season and falling in love with a rake. It sounded like fun, but all the fun to be had was contained within the three page prologue. It went downhill from there. Amelia Bourne…
Highlander Ever After has a very leisurely plot for about the first two thirds of the book, then in the last third it takes off like a rocket. Even though there’s not a lot of action for much of the book, the very likable characters make it a fun read. Zarabeth is a member of…
In Kindred Spirits a Regency Miss is charged with saving the life of Lord Braddock by the ghost of his ancestor. An interesting premise, but my interest waned with the introduction of some very odd paranormal elements and an obtuse hero. China Nethercott is returning to her home in Yorkshire when she is hailed by…
Theft of Shadows is an enjoyable novel from a promising new voice in historical fiction. This is Naomi Bellis’ third book, and I’m the third reviewer at AAR to give the author a grade of “B”. This author is one to watch. Gabriel, a French chevalier and former spy for the English, returns to London…
Buffy sure did start something, didn’t she? I have read many new paranormal series staring feisty, powerful heroines and their boys. While I’ve been disappointed more often than not, there have been some diamonds in the rough. Gleason’s Gardella Vampire Chronicles is just such a diamond. I am quickly becoming addicted to the series and…
Nash’s Druids of Avalon series is neatly ticking off the trappings of the Arthurian legend. The first book – The Grail King – dealt with the Holy Grail, of course, while Deep Magic explores the creation of the sword Exchalybur and how it wound up in that lake anyway. While this new twist on the…
Taken by the Night is the third book in a paranormal historical series featuring warriors who became vampires after drinking from a cursed chalice six hundred years ago. Smith’s writing style is solid throughout, but I couldn’t help thinking that I would have liked the book better as a straight historical. Saint is in London…
Warrior’s Bride is the quintessential C read. I’ve struggled for some time to write the review, because I felt that the sentence “this book was okay” more or less summed it all up. I didn’t like it, and I didn’t hate it, and there just isn’t much more to it than that. Izzy was born…
Just three years ago, Jennifer St. Giles was a welcome breath of fresh air with her American-set historical romances featuring classic Gothic overtones. My oh my, how the mighty have fallen. So, just how do you take a good thing and pretty much ruin it in three short years? First of all, you move the…