Lucy Blue has gotten some good buzz on the our message boards and I’m happy to find that buzz warranted, for The Devil’s Knight is an exciting, great read. Rebel brigands attack the partially finished castle belonging to Tristan, a Norman nobleman, and because the peasants inside help them, they succeed in breaching the defenses….
Penelope and Prince Charming is a Regency-set, paranormal, fantasy, romantic suspense, Cinderella fairytale. Unfortunately, all these disparate elements never quite meshed together to form a coherent story. Damien is a prince in exile, dodging assassins sent by his mad father while making a reputation for himself as the greatest lover in Europe. When his father…
Vampires and satire. What could be more fun? I went into this tale of a reluctant vampire huntress hoping for a fun diversion. While it did have a few funny moments, the book also featured historical missteps that yanked me right out of the story and comedy which did not hit the spot for me…
The good news is that Donna Lea Simpson’s Awaiting the Moon takes place in 1795 (Translation: Not the Regency) in a remote area of Germany (Translation: Not England). Even better, the author does a terrific job of making the reader feel as if she, too, is isolated in a mysterious castle in a foreign country…
Romans and Druids and Ghosts – oh my! Celtic Fire takes place in 117 A.D. Britannia. While the south of England is settled, the Roman conquerors are still fighting the blue-faced Celts along what would later become Hadrian’s Wall. Against this backdrop Joy Nash weaves a seemingly impossible romance between a Roman commander and a…
For Camelot’s Honor is the second book in a series featuring brothers from King Arthur’s court. Although the novel is a bit predictable and mundane in the beginning, soon enough it becomes an emotionally packed and suspenseful book that is well worth the read. As the daughter of a Welsh chieftain, Elen leads a rather…
I like my vampire heroes to embrace their dark side, to accept their vampire nature, however, the hero of My Demon’s Kiss fights against his every step of the way, and for good reason, he viciously kills a friend immediately after becoming a vampire. The romanticized version of vampires is not present here, no sir….
The Demon’s Daughter suffered from a serious identity crisis. It could never figure out whether it wanted to be Victorian, alternate reality, romance, or erotica. In the end it was just plain bad. I had to read this in short increments to keep my sanity. Perhaps if the alternate reality setting been better done, and…
There’s something about the quirky characters in Patricia Rice’s novels that have always done it for me: ethereal, eccentric heroines; earnest, all-too-serious heroes; and secondary characters that, rather than getting in the way and bogging the plot down, add vividness and color to the surrounding plot. This Magic Moment is no exception. Harry of Sommersville…
We meet Faris Nallaneen, the gawky eighteen-year-old duchess of Galazon, just as she arrives as a new student at Greenlaw College, a finishing school in northern France. Faris was sent to school against her will by her uncle Becker, who is ruling the independent duchy of Galazon in her absence. Faris is deeply annoyed at…