KatiB ReviewsFinland / Historical / Sweden / Viking10 Comments

Dear Ms. Lake: As a deep lover of Elizabeth Vaughan’s Warlords of the Plains series, I’m always on the lookout for stories that feature a fish out of water heroine trying to make her way. I read the blurb for The Warlord’s Wife and immediately requested it because it seemed just ... more >

March 15, 2015

REVIEW: The Club by Lauren Rowe

JaneB- ReviewsContemporary / Erotic-Romance5 Comments

Dear Ms. Rowe: I’m adverse to books about sex clubs. They’ve been done so many times that I feel certain I’ve read every iteration of them at least once if not twice, but the blurb to this book caught my eye and as the book began to climb the Amazon charts ... more >

March 14, 2015

REVIEW: The Fighter and the Fallen Woman by Pamela Cayne

JaneB- ReviewsAthlete / courtesan / Fighter / Historical3 Comments

Dear Ms. Cayne: The blurb says that King and Lady have the choice of staying spoiled and safe or breaking free but I felt like that wasn’t the real conflict. Because of Mr. Adams, their owner’s capriciousness (perhaps one might say psycopathic), every day was a possible danger to them if ... more >

March 13, 2015

REVIEW: The Mésalliance (Rockliffe Book 2) by Stella Riley

JayneB+ Reviews / Recommended Readsclass-difference / English Historical / Georgian / Historical / marriage-of-convenience15 Comments

Reluctantly, the Duke of Rockliffe is in the market for a wife. His requirements are simple; a lady who will occupy her position with well-bred grace and chaperone his sister, Nell – but who will not bore him to distraction. He is acquainted with a number of ladies who could ... more >

March 12, 2015

REVIEW: Mistress Firebrand by Donna Thorland

KaetrinB- Reviewsactress / American Revolutionary War / Historical / spy7 Comments

British Occupied Manhattan, 1777. American actress Jennifer Leighton has been packing the John Street Theater with her witty comedies, but she longs to escape the provincial circuit for the glamour of the London stage. When the playwright General John Burgoyne visits the city, fresh from a recent success in the ... more >

March 11, 2015

REVIEW: A Fireproof Home for the Bride by Amy Scheibe

JayneB Reviews1950s / coming-of-age / immigration / New Adult / racism / reporter / Womens-Fiction2 Comments

Emmaline Nelson and her sister Birdie grow up in the hard, cold rural Lutheran world of strict parents, strict milking times, and strict morals. Marriage is preordained, the groom practically predestined. Though it’s 1958, southern Minnesota did not see changing roles for women on the horizon. Caught in a time ... more >