Last Rake Standing, by Jane Fresina

Title: Last Rake Standing Author: Jayne Fresina (author website) Published: January, 2011 Pages: 78 (PDF ebook) Genre: Historical Romance Standalone or series: Standalone  Why I read it: When the author contacted me directly to read and review this title I was completely hooked by the excerpt! Source: provided by author Summary: (from publishing page) In Victorian London, Emma Hale [...]

Heart of Stone, by Jill Marie Landis GIVEAWAY and review

Title: Heart of Stone Author: Jill Marie Landis (author website here) Published: March, 2010 Pages: 312 pages (trade paperback) Genre: Historical Romance Standalone or series: The first her new Irish Angel series. The next one, Heart of Lies, doesn’t have a release date just yet that I could find. Why I read it: The publisher [...]

Friday Finds Jan 15

What great books did you hear about or discover this week? Share with us your Friday Finds! Hosted by Ms. B at Should Be Reading.  Wow I haven’t participated in this meme since November, so this is a mix of new and old releases that have caught my lusty reading eye recently. They are all [...]

Not Quite A Husband, by Sherry Thomas

Title: Not Quite a Husband  Author: Sherry Thomas Published: May 2009 Pages: 352 mass market paperback Standalone or series: Standalone, has a few characters from previous novel, but not the current, nor related to any prior, Heroes or Heroines. Source: Library romance section, recommended by many on my earlier post when another Sherry Thomas book [...]

A Reliable Wife, Robert Goolrick

Title: A Reliable Wife Author: Robert Goolrick Pages: Hardcover 291 Published: March 2009, Algonquin Books Why did I read this book: It was on the end cap of my library’s New Release section and the title sounded vaguely familiar. NOTE TO SELF: stop picking up books with no research! Set in 1909 Wisconsin the story opens in [...]

Black Silk, by Judith Ivory

Title: Black Silk Author: Judith Ivory (aka Judy Cuevas) Pages: 480 in paperback Published: By Avon in 2002 Series?: no, standalone Bought it myself Lovely Lusty Reader reader Christina suggested this title based on our mutual love for more old school romances (my list of my favorite 16 has 10 books published before 1995) even though Black Silk [...]

A negative comparison

If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all… Well today is opposite day for me then, because I don’t have the nicest things to say right now. A few of my recent reads just did NOT work for me. Here is the problem, I just read one of the [...]

Legend of Four Soldiers series, by Elizabeth Hoyt 3in1 review

It’s time for a blitzkrieg review! Maybe that has too much of a negative connotation…review-blitz? lighting round review? Since I have been reading at the speed of light (8 books in 7 days = speed of light, it’s science) it is only fitting I do a quick review round. I just finished the first three [...]

Her Only Desire, Gaelen Foley

Title: Her Only Desire Author: Gaelen Foley(prob one of the best rom author websites I’ve seen, in fact in my imagination that’s what I wanted my blog to look like) Genre: Historical Romance Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: March 2007 Standalone or Series: First book in the Spice Trilogy, and cousins to the Knight Miscellany [...]

Famous figures in historical fiction

How do you feel about famous figures in your historical fiction? And no I don’t mean famous as in Scarlett O’Hara or Mr. Darcy, even though I can quote them and talk about them like they are real people. I mean like King Charles II, or Abraham Lincoln, or the Duke of Wellington. What happens [...]