Available today: Duke of Sin ****4/5 stars With everything you love about historical romance, Duke of Sin is a great come-back story. Recommended readers: If you like a historical romance If you’re a fan of a come-back story in your romance If you like Elizabeth Hoyt, Lisa Kleypas, and Mary Balogh Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 for characters 3/5 for plot 4/5 overall 3/5 steaminess REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: A … Continue reading Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt
Available now: The Cavendon Luck ****4/5 stars With Downton-Abbey appeal and a meandering pre-World War II story, The Cavendon Luck is classic Barbara Taylor Bradford. Recommended readers: If you like Downton Abbey and other Edwardian English dramas If you’re a fan of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s family sagas If you enjoy a turn of the century, changing of times family drama Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 for characters 4/5 for … Continue reading The Cavendon Luck by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Available now: Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck ****3/5 stars- liked it The author of The House of Hawthorne and Hemingway’s Girl tackles Zelda Fitzgerald. Recommended readers: For book clubs For Hemingway/Fitzgerald Jazz age buffs For fans historical fiction featuring real people Here’s my Rankings: 3/5 characters 3/5 plot 3/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: Call me Zelda enters around Zelda Fitzgerald’s struggle with mental illness and with her famous husband, fictionalizing a … Continue reading Review: Call Me Zelda
Available now: The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom ***3/5 stars- liked it Forbidden love and family ties collide among an Italian family in World War II London. Recommended readers: If you’re a fan of World War II romantic fiction, and if you’re interested in the Italian perspective outside of Italy, this one is for you. Here’s my Rankings: 3/5 characters 3/5 plot 3/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: For … Continue reading Available Now: The Girl from the Paradise Ballroom
Available June 7th: What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte ****4/5 stars-loved it A classic tale of a beautiful woman and a gentleman thief spanning decades Recommended readers: Fans of slow-building romantic suspense fans of the Tango Fans of the theft-meets-love convention Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 characters 4/5 plot 4/5 overall 4/5 steaminess including violence REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: Brand new in the U.S. from the internationally-bestselling author of Captain … Continue reading Available June 7th: What We Become
Available May 31: Into the Whirlwind (BOSS, Inc) ****3.5/5 stars Into the Whirlwind is a quick paced read with action and passion. Recommended readers: Looking for a page-turner romance Want a book that both you and your guy will like? Fans of Kat Martin Here’s my Rankings: 3.5/5 for characters 3/5 for plot 3.5/5 overall 3/5 steaminess REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: Into the Whirlwind gets going … Continue reading Review: Into the Whirlwind by Kat Martin
Available now: Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice ****4/5 stars- loved it Eligible is a fabulous modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, on point and on trend too. Recommended readers: If like Pride and Prejudice but also chic lit if you like contemporary romance and if you identify with having a large, crazy family Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 for characters 4/5 for plot 4/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: … Continue reading Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Available this month: I Thee Wed (The Wicked Worthington Series) ***3.5/5 stars- Really liked it This Celeste Bradley novel is lighthearted fun – from beginning to end. Recommended readers: Readers of English historical fiction Looking for a fun, lighthearted romance Fans of Celeste Bradley, Sabrina Jeffries and more Here’s my Rankings: 3.5/5 for characters 3.5/5 for plot 3.5/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: From rabbits to pesky sisters to exploding … Continue reading I Thee Wed by Celeste Bradley
Available now: One Pink Rose ****4/5 stars Action filled with the perfect mix of romantic tension, anyone will love Against the Sky. Recommended readers: Fans of Julie Garwood (because who isn’t by now) Looking for good, ole’ fashioned romance (without the sex) Fans of Western Romance Here’s my Rankings: 4/5 for characters 4/5 for plot 4/5 overall 2/5 steaminess REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: A re-release … Continue reading Review: One Pink Rose by Julie Garwood
Available June 7th: The Corners of the Globe (James Maxted #2) ***3.5/5 stars- really liked it The adventures of ace pilot-turned-spy James “Max” Maxted continue in the tumult of postwar Europe. Recommended readers: Fans of spy novels fans of historical mysteries fans of Maisie Dobbs and readers of WWI-era fiction Here’s my Rankings: 3.5/5 characters 3.5/5 plot 3.5/5 overall REVIEW FROM BOOKS FOR HER: The second in Robert Goddard’s … Continue reading James Maxted #2: The Corners of the Globe
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