B+ ReviewsHistorical Romances / shipboard / Ugly heroine33 Comments
Dear Ms. Wiggs, Your book, The Charm School (1999), was suggested to me one night whilst I was prowling around on Twitter looking for answers. I had asked for suggestions of books with ugly heroines. Ugly, mind you, not plain. Plain means that at some point in the novel there ... more >
A- Reviewsgood characterization / good-description / Julie-Anne-Long / Regency England / shipboard29 Comments
Dear Ms. Long, Violet Redmond is young, beautiful, and bored. It seems that no matter what she does, her popularity with the ton will not fade. Suitors flock to her side, even though she once threatened to cast herself into a well when arguing with one of them. In the ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews Category / C+ ReviewsAction/Adventure / Agent/Spies/Undercover / Linda-Howard / shipboard24 Comments
Dear Ms. Howard: I liked this book but I think it is important for a reader to view it more as an adventure book than a romance on although there is a strong romance. It lacks the emotional intensity of prior Howard works, but it was engaging. There was a ... more >
B Reviews Category / Book Reviewsorphan / shipboard / shipwreck11 Comments
Dear Ms. Cornick, This is the first of your books that I’ve read, and when I began reading it last week, I couldn’t remember why I had been interested enough to pick it up, since I’m not hugely adventurous when it comes to new-to-me authors, and I haven’t had very ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsattorney / Caribbean / conversational review / courtesan / Erotic-Romance / erotica / Georgian / Historical Romances / island / Janet-Mullany / shipboard / slavery / Threesome53 Comments
Dear Readers, Just as I had finished reading Forbidden Shores by Jane Lockwood (a pseudonym for Janet Mullany) and was getting ready to review it, I had a conversation about the book with my good friend Jennie F., who had also recently read it. Jennie’s comments were so insightful and ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / Historical / My Favorite Things-2006 / pirates / shipboard8 Comments
Dear Mrs. Canham, I hope that your muse can tempt you back into writing. I keep hearing rumors but what I want is to read another new Canham book! ;) Other reviews have decried the amount of violence and sex in “The Iron Rose.” Yes, it’s violent. Yes, it has ... more >