I searched for something nice to say about Down and Dirty, and the only thing I could come up with was its originality, a difficult achievement in an industry that recycles story themes ad nauseum. Unfortunately, the uniqueness of the story succumbed to absurdity. Navy SEAL, Zachary “Pretty Boy” Floyd finds himself in the middle…
When I first started reading romance, time travel romances were fairly plentiful. The quality wasn’t always terrific, but the selection made up for that somewhat. These days it really seems like all-vampires-all-the-time. Time travels are so few and far between that I nearly always snap one up when I see it. A Highlander for Christmas…
An unopened book is a promise of a pleasurable experience, especially when it features elements that usually appeal to me. Historical setting, check. Time travel, check. But then I opened this book and found a plot that quickly degenerated into a murky, muddled mess and mysterious plot details that remain that way for far too…
It’s my masochistic love for the time travel sub-genre that keeps me reading even when stupid 20th century women use disco songs as war cries during some medieval battle. Even though the title of Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband had me cringing, some unknown force was drawn to the words “time-travel” and “Scotland”. Frankly,…
To me there is wallpaper Medieval and Medieval-lite. Lynn Kurland is definitely in the lite category. Her Medieval and time travels may not show the daily grit of life in the past, but she manages to give us the flavor all wrapped up in a nice lighthearted bow. Her latest is not without its problems…
What to do with a book that makes you laugh at the top of the page and want to hurl it into the nearest wall at the bottom? Such is A Hoboken Hipster in Sherwood Forest. Chrissie, said Hoboken Hipster, finds herself a photographic assignment in a Medieval re-enactment faire. Somewhere along the way her…
After writing down my initial thoughts about Here with Me, I decided to read the AAR review for its prequel, Stay with Me, just to make sure I wasn’t missing something. Turns out that my reaction to this book was exactly the same as Lori’s was to the earlier one: we found nothing wrong with…
I will give almost any time travel romance a shot and I think it’s because of the fated aspect of the romance – that shot of kismet that will draw a woman or man from present times to a time in the past in order to be with their soul’s mate. I’ve read a lot…
Sandra Hill’s time traveling Vikings are back for another trip. Rough and Ready has a lot of farcial episodes and plenty of ultra-hot sex, but it lacks the touch of poignancy that made the early books in this series something special. Torolf Magnusson, son of Magnus, the Very Virile Viking, time traveled from 11th century…
For a novel that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, Tempting the Wolf was generally enjoyable. I included time travel as the type of romance because the back cover blurb mentions it, but truly it has no impact on the story whatsoever and any traveling through time has long since happened. This is what…