If I had only word to describe Bewitched it would be romantic. While most romance novels rely heavily on action-driven plots, poor communication or lusty whirlwind relationships Bewitched instead takes another route. It brings together two people who become friends long before they are able to become lovers. The end result is a book that…
Bewitched worked for me – for the first two chapters. Sympathetic hero, dark and mysterious setting, deep secrets from the past. Once the heroine made her entrance, however, everything changed – and not for the better. Instead of a potentially pleasant story about a man learning to stare his demons in the face and a…
Reading this book was a lot like putting on an old well-washed pair of blue jeans. Maybe there were a few small holes, and story may have been a little worn, but overall it fit well, felt very comfortable, and was just the thing I felt like reading at the time. The story begins in…
How much you may enjoy Cooking Up Trouble depends in part on your expectations of a “Fairy Tale Romance”- a romance that reworks and modernizes the events of a classic tale. I love reworked fairy tales, but mainly when they bring something new to my understanding of the classic story. My favorite musical, for istance,…
NOTE: This book has been republished as Phantom Bride Of Midnight Born is an intimate, cozy paranormal, and I found it quite delightful. Solid characterization and well-integrated humor rest securely on the crumbling foundation of a haunted castle. In 1350, Serena Clerenbold and her brother are the only members of their family to survive the Black…
Tired of dark, deeply emotional romances? If you’re in the mood for a change of pace with a light, fun romance that has more than a few slightly fantastic elements, this book fits the bill nicely. It is London, 1848. Julia Hanson is an articulate and intelligent woman who just happens to have an unfashionable…
When Sammy Davis, Jr. sang “I Gotta Be Me,” he could have been singing about witches in romance novels. Whenever a witch is prevented from being herself (i.e. witchlike), disaster lurks. Sometimes it’s personal disaster for the witch who may become desperately unhappy and sometimes the disaster is much larger in scope. Merely Magic falls…
What can I say about Great Caesar’s Ghost? Just when I was loathing it with all my heart, something would happen that I really liked. Just when I had decided it had gotten pretty good, something would happen that would make me want to scream with irritation. Irritation won out in the end. The year…
The Night Drifter is one of the most unique romance novels I have ever stumbled across. It’s a story of man who falls in love with a woman’s soul before he falls in lust with her body. It’s also a story of a woman who falls in love with a man she can’t touch. Yes,…
Uncertain Magic was first published in 1987 and is currently in its seventh printing. This was the first Laura Kinsale book I ever read so I didn’t know what to expect. I just pulled it off of Borders’ romance shelf because of its pretty cover. What a wonderful surprise to discover this author on a…