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Historical Romance

BOUND BY YOUR TOUCH by Mered­ith Duran is the follow-up to last year’s impres­sive debut, THE DUKE OF SHADOWS which was a story partly set in India and fea­tured a hero who was caught between two worlds. The first half of that book cap­ti­vated me.
While THE DUKE OF SHADOWS was some­what darker in tone with a bit more angst, […]

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Seduc­ing an Angel by Mary Balogh (2009) is the fourth book in the Huxtable series released in hard­cover and pub­lished by Dell. The fol­low­ing review was writ­ten by fel­low reader and con­trib­u­tor, Sen­e­tra. Enjoy.
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Stephen Huxtable, the Earl of Mer­ton, first appeared as a 17-year-old young man in First Comes Mar­riage, then aged a few years in each subsequent […]

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The Duke of Shad­ows (2008) by Mered­ith Duran is a his­tor­i­cal romance set out­side Regency Eng­land. The story is par­tially set in India dur­ing a most tur­bu­lent time when the British mil­i­tary was in occu­pa­tion of the coun­try. The grow­ing ten­sions between the natives and the British offi­cers leads to what some refer to as the Indian […]

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Then Comes Seduc­tion (2009) by Mary Balogh, the sec­ond entry in this five part series fea­tur­ing “the Huxta­bles.” This guest review was sub­mit­ted by fel­low reader, Senetra.
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I read a pre­view of this book at the end of the pre­vi­ous book in the series, and based on it and the plot descrip­tion, I was not too sure of […]

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First Comes Mar­riage by Mary Balogh (2009) and is the first in a five book series fea­tur­ing the “Huxta­bles”. The fol­low­ing guest review was sub­mit­ted by fel­low reader, Sen­e­tra. As an aside, I haven’t read Mary Balogh in quite some­time and I was look­ing for­ward to read­ing this one and now, may need to lower my expec­ta­tions.
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Mary Balogh […]

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Your Scan­dalous Ways (2008) by Loretta Chase is a romance that fol­lows an Eng­lish divor­cée and demi­monde resid­ing in Venice, Italy. The sub­plot of the story involves her pos­sess­ing some impor­tant, incrim­i­nat­ing let­ters belong­ing to her ex-husband, Lord Elph­ick, a man who is ambi­tiously climb­ing the polit­i­cal lat­ter in Lon­don.
James Cordier, an agent for his Majesty, is […]

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Author Watch: Lisa Valdez Updates Her Website

by Avid Reader on April 27, 2008

in Avid Musings

I am late to the party but Ms. Valdez web­site had been down and now I see it is back up and she has updated it with a bit of news. She promises to give read­ers an update about her sec­ond book, Patience, on April 30th so mark your cal­en­ders. Ok read­ers, what do you think? Will […]

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Cal­vary Wife by Donna Dal­ton is an ebook that is cur­rently a best­seller at Fic­tion­wise. I fell in love with the cover and was hop­ing this would be a good story. What I got was a for­mu­laic romance that bored me to tears.  Here is the book’s descrip­tion:
A night of too much whiskey, a wrongly-numbered hotel door, and an angry guardian force ded­i­cated cav­alry captain […]

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Cas­tle of the Wolf by San­dra Schwab, copy­right 2007. Cas­tle of the Wolf has a lot going for it with­out open­ing the cover: It’s set in Ger­many and it’s a his­tor­i­cal romance with a gothic feel to it with­out nary a vam­pire around. This is my first time read­ing Ms. Schwab but it won’t be the last. FWIW, this is her […]

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His­tor­i­cal romances aren’t what they used to be. Just read this dis­cus­sion here where the debate con­tin­ues on the con­tin­ued decline of the his­tor­i­cal romance novel. How­ever, Con­nie Brockway’s As You Desire has a won­der­ful hero and if your look­ing for a dif­fer­ent set­ting, how does Egypt sound to you?
As You Desire is set in Egypt. It is one of the […]

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I’ve never been a big a fan of antholo­gies but the buzz around Ms. Rosenthal’s novella, The House East of Regent Street, intrigued me. I ordered it. Read it and Loved it. The Excerpt: Read it Here
The House East of Regent Street by Pam Rosen­thal. I ordered this copy of this anthol­ogy (Strangers in the Night) based on another reader’s […]

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REVIEW: Passion by Lisa Valdez

by Avid Reader on January 4, 2006

in Book Reviews, Grade B Reviews, Romance

Pas­sion by Lisa Valdez is a good debut. How­ever I did have a few  prob­lems. The premise of the story starts with a sin­gle let­ter from Lucinda, telling her child­hood friend, Abi­gail, about her indis­cre­tion. Sev­eral years later, Abi­gail sees the let­ter as a coupe for her daugh­ter, Char­lotte, to be a count­ess. Let  the screw­ing games begin!
Lucinda’s old­est son, Mark, is […]

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