Comments on: If You Like Judith McNaught, Historicals . . . Hosted by Loonigrrl

By: Anita Chax

Anita Chax — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:15:36 +0000

Love this post. I love, emotional, angst-ridden, character-driven romances. McNaught historicals and contemporaries do the job for me! So do SEP’s books. My other fave authors are: Susan Napier, Mary Balogh, the early Jude Deveraux, Linda Howard… After glomming on Balogh the last month or so, I’m really tired of historical. Would love angsty contemporaries. Any recommendations?

Oh, will someone please do a “if you like Susan Elizabeth Phillips” please?????

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:23:46 +0000

Hey i love this post!!!
I’m a real fan of JM and I’m so glad with all these suggestions, i have alot of reading to do now. Something Wonderful is my all time favorite, and i really liked Until You, which i find is pretty underated.

I would like to recommend a couple of Jo Goodman’s novels, especially Forever in my Heart.
Jude Deveraux’s Sweet Liar is also one i liked.
And I loved Shirlee Busbee’s Whisper to me of love, i read that one when i was really young and is the only one i haven’t reread, but i know at that time it had such an impact on me that i’ve never forgotten it.

By: Navya

Navya — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:42:08 +0000

Hai, i really liked ur job on judith’s books. U were very good and i copmletely agree with u. but it is very difficult to like other authors once you have read judlth. so i have always been left unsatisfied with whatever i’ve read other than her name in my front page. i will surely try ur recommendations.

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By: stelaregine

stelaregine — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:20:39 +0000

I have to agree. I so love Judith McNaught’s books. I also love Julie Garwood! They’re the only two romance novel authors I read!

By: Gini

Gini — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:52:08 +0000

Thank you Michelle!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:29:22 +0000

Thanks, Elaine. I was always curious about what she had changed in the new version.

Re: other funny regencies

Amanda Quick stories are on the light, humorous side with quirky characters. If you’ve never read her before, they can be refreshingly different. (Unfortunately, after awhile, they get to be sadly the same.)

I’ve also really enjoyed some Louise Allen stories published by harlequin historical, so they may be easier to find in England. They’re regencies, but not the same old, same old. The heroine in No Place for a Lady meets the hero when she is driving a stagecoach - filling in for a missing driver because it’s her family’s business.

And, it sounds like I finally need to read Windflower. I’ve hauled a copy through several moves, but my desire to read it lessened after reading a couple of other Sharon/Tom Curtis stories that I didn’t think lived up to hype.

By: Elaine C.

Elaine C. — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:09:58 +0000

Michelle & wandergurl, JM re-released a new updated version of her Whitney, My Love. If you have a chance and want to you might enjoy her new version better, it has softened the violence of their encounters. I personally loved the original, and the remake equally. I just love her books period. Patricia Briggs: Laura London's Windflower is one of the most superbly written historical romance books of all time, it's up there with Diana Gabaldon's Outlander. Oh and as a side note that is totally off topic - your Urban Fantasy stories about Mercy Thompson are off the hook, can't for Bone Crossed to come out! ;)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:54:53 +0000

I know I’ve got to stop posting to this, but funny regencies are not the first kind of story that I remember, so titles keep popping into my head after I’ve already posted.

Gini - You may like Anne Gracie’s regencies. They also have a lot of humor. If you like Julia Quinn, you may like some of the other Avon regency historical authors such as Elizabeth Boyle or Suzanne Enoch or Victoria Alexander.

I also really enjoyed Connie Brockway’s funny historicals - Bridal Season and Bridal Favours come to mind.

While I’ve not read many of her books, lots of folks rave about Georgette Heyer’s humor. Some reviewers said that Diane Farr captured Heyer’s humor.

And, you may like Mary Balogh’s “farces” - but they’re all old signet regencies, so they may be hard to find.

And, wandergurl, there were times when I wanted to throw Whitney, My Love across the room as well. I never understood the appeal of all those rape historical romances that were mostly written before I started reading romance novels.