B+ Reviews / Contests/Giveaways / Recommended Reads16th-century / 17th-century / Fairy-Tales / First-Person / France / giveaway / Historical / Italy / Venice52 Comments
The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended Reads16th-century / Historical / privateer / Spain / swashbuckler / Tudor-England18 Comments
Dear Readers, If you’ve never read anything by Georgette Heyer beyond her Regencies, or you’re not interested in prissy Regencies, preferring action and adventure, then do yourself a favor and try this one. It might be that because my introduction to Heyer was through her Georgians and Beauvallet that this ... more >
Book Reviews / D Reviews16th-century / European-Historical / Historical / Jewish-faith / midwife4 Comments
The Imperial Harem, Constantinople, 1578. Hannah and Isaac Levi, Venetians in exile, have overcome unfathomable obstacles to begin life anew in the Ottoman Empire. He works in the growing silk trade, and she, the best midwife in the capital, tends to the hundreds of women in Sultan Murat III’s lively ... more >
B Reviews16th-century / dysfunctional family / France / Historical / Paranormal10 Comments
In 1556 France, Queen Catherine de Medici spies on her husband, King Henri II, and his lover, Diane de Poitiers. Driven nearly mad by jealousy, the queen, who is “very fond of do-it-yourself magic,” is frustrated with her sycophantic, possibly duplicitous court astrologer’s ineffective powers, until he reveals his knowledge ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ Reviews / Ebooks16th-century / Caribbean / Harlequin / Historical Romances5 Comments
Dear Ms. McCabe, Last year when I read your book “A Sinful Alliance,” the secondary Italian character Balthazar Grattiano caught my eye. Well, he and the Tudor setting. So I was a happy woman when I learned that he was going to get his own book and that it would ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C Reviews Category / Ebooks16th-century / Caribbean / Harlequin / Harlequin Undone / Historical Romances9 Comments
Dear Ms. McCabe, I think this is an example of one of the best titles I’ve seen in a long time. Why? Because it basically covers just about everything in the plot. Like the first of the new Harlequin Undone line I read, “Libertine Lord, Pickpocket Miss” by Bronwyn Scott, ... more >