Tag: Historical

Guest Review: My One True Highlander by Suzanne Enoch

Guest Review: My One True Highlander by Suzanne Enoch

Graeme, Viscount Maxton, is an impoverished Chieftan in the Maxwell clan.  He doesn’t see eye to eye with the Maxwell Laird but he stays out of his way and it works.  That is until the Laird comes to visit and basically tells Graeme that if he kills the Duke of Lattimer the Maxwell Laird would […]

Guest Review: The Highland Duke by Amy Jarecki

Guest Review: The Highland Duke by Amy Jarecki

Akira is a healer in the small town of Dunkeld.  After the battle of Hoord Moor she heads to battlefield to see if she can help any of the wounded.  She finds a man who has been shot in the thigh and tries to help him.  When they hear people coming he quickly sends her […]

Retro Review: Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn

Retro Review: Mr. Cavendish, I Presume by Julia Quinn

*****As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, we’ll be re-posting old reviews that make us cringe, laugh or sigh all over again. This review was originally posted on September 26, 2008. This is the second book in the Two Dukes of Wyndham series. The first story follows the long lost son of John Cavendish, […]

Review: When the Marquess Falls by Lorraine Heath

Review: When the Marquess Falls by Lorraine Heath

Lorraine Heath did something with this story and I wasn’t even aware that I wanted this story until I picked it up for review. You see, this story is about the Mad Marquess of Marsden. The crazy man that walks the moors because he swears that his wife’s ghost is there with him. For three […]

Retro Post: Forced Seduction or Rape?

A lot has changed in publishing since 2008, but forced seduction and rape haven’t gone away. If anything, I think we’ve seen even more of this in contemporary novels. This was originally posted February 25, 2008.Casee: The other night, Holly and I started talking about the ever controversial topic–rape in romance novels. The topic came […]