Tag: Historical Romance

Guest Review: Winning the Wallflower by Eloisa James

Guest Review:  Winning the Wallflower by Eloisa James

Ames’ review of Winning the Wallflower by Eloisa James. It could only happen in a fairy tale. Lady Lucy Towerton: Plain and tall. (According to the lady herself.) Titled and irreproachably proper. (According to her fiancé.) Until, overnight, she becomes Lady Lucy Towerton: Heiress. (Thanks to an aged aunt’s bequest.) Belle of the ball. (So […]

Guest Review: How to Lose a Bride in One Night by Sophie Jordan

Guest Review: How to Lose a Bride in One Night by Sophie Jordan

Sophie Jordan is one of those historical romance writers that just seems to hit a home run most of the time.  Her literary batting average is right up there and she has done it again . . . written a story that is creative and different yet is filled with the color and pageantry that […]

Guest Review: And Then She Fell by Stephanie Laurens

Guest Review: And Then She Fell by Stephanie Laurens

Ms Laurens has again gifted her reading public with a historical romance that continues the reader’s involvement with the Cynster group, and in this story there is a very different kind of character featured as the heroine.  It is almost as if Henrietta is an anti-heroine, a woman who really never sees herself as a […]

Guest Review: Sins of a Ruthless Rogue by Anna Randol

Guest Review:  Sins of a Ruthless Rogue by Anna Randol

Judith’s review of Sins of a Ruthless Rogue  (Sinners Trio #2) by Anna Randol When Clayton Campbell shows up on her doorstep, Olivia Swift is stunned. For long ago, Clayton was the boy who stole her heart. He’s also the man her betrayal had sent to the gallows. A man she believed dead, now standing before […]

Guest Review: The Mad Earl’s Bride by Loretta Chase

Guest Review: The Mad Earl’s Bride by Loretta Chase

This novella was originally a part of an anthology released in 1995 but has not been re-released to stand on its own. And stand it does.  It is not only an educational piece of history about the progress (or lack thereof) of the practice of medicine, of the ideas about insanity and about the practice […]