B Reviews / B+ Reviewsadultery / epistolary novel / Historical / Late Victorian / Literary fiction / love triangles / vicar / widow3 Comments
Dear Ms. Perry, Your novel first came to my attention when Robin, posting as Janet, reported that it won both Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. I waited impatiently for it to be published in the United States and then ... more >
B- Reviews / C+ Reviewsbaronet / Blackmail / historical romance / Regency England / unrequited-love / veterans / widow13 Comments
Dear Ms. Balogh, Earlier this year, I blogged about Indiscreet and Unforgiven, the first two books in your Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse series, which features four cavalry officers who served in the Napoleonic War. Irresistible is the third and final book in the series, concerning the last two horsemen, ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsjoint review / opera / Opera Singer / viscount / widow9 Comments
Robin and I have both enjoyed Miranda Neville’s novels in the past. When a recent review request for her self-published novel, Secrets of a Soprano, arrived in our inboxes, both of us jumped on it. We decided to review the book together. –Janine Janine: Fittingly, Secrets of a Soprano begins ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews CategoryHistorical / rake / widow7 Comments
Dear Ms. Kleypas: I was delighted to see you dip your toe back into the historical romance pool after publishing a number of contemporary and paranormal-type romances. I find I can always count on you to write an historical romance that satisfies me, which I can say about very few authors these ... more >
B ReviewsEdwardian-era / historical romance / veteran / widow2 Comments
Dear Ms. Browning, Your publisher, Sourcebooks Casablanca, sent out a review request for some of its late summer books, including The Great Estate, a historical romance set in Edwardian England. I decided to start with Thornbrook Park, book one in the same series, since I like to read series in order. Thornbrook ... more >
B ReviewsBDSM Lite / law-enforcement / second chance / widow1 Comments
Dear Ms. Dawson: Angela James recommended this book to me. The story is a simple one. Layla loses her fiancé during an assault in an alley near a club. She sinks into a deep emotional depression. She finds someone who attracts her but she fights it because she’s both afraid of loving again ... more >