Tycoon by Joanna Shupe is a novella that introduces her new historical romance series The Knickerbocker Club. This series is set in early eighteen eighties New York City. This novella centers around banking magnet Ted Harper who happens to […]
Review by Karen of To Trust a Rogue To Trust a Rogue by Christi Caldwell, is simply a superb historical romance. There are some authors that when they put words to paper, those words, unlike no others sing to […]
In this second book in Viola Carr’s Electric Empire series, the female protagonist feels utterly trapped by her life and society. Her alter ego Lizzie feels trapped by sharing Eliza’s body; but Eliza is actually more trapped by her own […]
Review of The Sweetest Scoundrel by Elizabeth Hoyt Elizabeth Hoyt’s newest book The Sweetest Scoundrel is a darker read than some of her other Maiden Lane novels. It actually harkened back to her first book in the series Wicked Intentions. […]
A couple of days ago I read and reviewed a New York Time and USA Today contemporary romance that had shoddy and haphazard character development, but paired it with inferno sex scenes. In one months time it has over seven […]
Karen’s Two Cents Worth I find myself in a conundrum because there are parts of Heart of the Gladiator by Lydia Pax which were really good, but, in other parts, it was just not believable for the third century Roman […]
~Karen’s Review~ “Scoundrels, rakes and rogues are not to be trusted.” But, they are such a pleasure to read about. In Christi Caldwell’s latest book The Heart of a Scoundrel, Edmund Deering, the Marquee of Rutland, is a black […]
Mary Balogh in her newest book Only a Kiss, grabbed my heart, and enveloped my soul, in a breath stealing romance. Imogen, Lady Barclay, survived her stint in the Napoleonic War, after being taken prisoner with her husband who died […]
Aliette de Bodard, writes an epic historical fantasy, that blends both Judo-Christian traditions, those of the Far East, suspense, and intrigue in The House of Shattered Wings. The angels of Heaven rebelled, were cast out and became the Fallen, but not into […]
~Karen’s Two Cents~ I can’t abide a cheater! Once the hero has met the heroine all ‘other’ dalliances are off the table, but not in Heart’s Desire by Cheryl Holt, which is book two of The Lost Lords of Radcliffe. “Did […]