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Classic Romance Reviews

November 6, 2014

REVIEW: Bloodraven by P.L.Nunn

SiriusA Reviews / Classic Romance Reviews / Recommended ReadsDark Fantasy / m/m romance / Magic / Rape38 Comments

Recommended Read

A son of a forest dwelling people, Yhalen knows little of the world outside the ancestral forest, until he is captured by a band of ogres on a slave-taking mission. Only grim tales of the barbaric giants had reached the forest, but Yhalen soon learns that even the darkest fireside ... more >

May 27, 2014

CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: The Windflower by Laura London (aka Tom and Sharon Curtis)

JanetClassic Romance Reviews1980s / Classic Review / Historical Romances / joint review / pirates / Regency / republication / The WindflowerComments Off on CONVERSATIONAL REVIEW: The Windflower by Laura London (aka Tom and Sharon Curtis)

In preparation for our book club on The Windflower, Sunita and Robin undertook a conversational review of the book. Very soon it became clear that in order to keep said review under the actual page limit of the book itself, we’d have to do more of a general commentary that ... more >

May 25, 2014

CLASSIC REVIEW: A Soldier’s Heart by Kathleen Korbel

Guest ReviewerA- Reviews / Classic Romance ReviewsCategory / Contemporary16 Comments

Dear Ms. Korbel, When I read Jane’s call for reviews of classic romances, I knew that I wanted to review your book, A Soldier’s Heart. I read it in the mid 90s and it stayed with me. I finally tracked it down and re-read it last year and was impressed ... more >

May 18, 2014

CLASSIC REVIEW: Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts

Guest ReviewerA- Reviews / Classic Romance ReviewsClassic Review / Contemporary romance16 Comments

Shiloh Walker is an award-winning writer…yes, really! She’s also a mom, a wife, a reader and she pretends to be an amateur photographer. Now she’s going to try her hand at reviewing…temporarily. You can find Shiloh on her website or on Twitter. When I saw the call go up for reviews ... more >

May 2, 2014

CLASSIC REVIEW: Savage Thunder by Johanna Lindsey

Guest ReviewerB Reviews / Classic Romance Reviewsclassic fiction / historical romance / western54 Comments

Dear Ms. Lindsey, Colt Thunder was my first lover. My relationship to Savage Thunder is long and complicated, and intimately tied to my reading life, so this review is long, long, long; it also contains a good dose of nostalgia.   Part 1: The Memory   Sometime during my senior ... more >

April 29, 2014

CLASSIC REVIEW: Skyscraper by Faith Baldwin ©1931

Guest ReviewerB Reviews / Classic Romance Reviews13 Comments

  Our first entry is from Vintage Reader. You can find her on her Twitter feed here. Molly B., known on Twitter and formerly in the blogosphere as The Vintage Reader, has been reading vintage romance since her best friend introduced her to the works of both Grace Livingston Hill and ... more >

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