Entrancing the Earl School of Magic 5 by Patricia Rice Can an impoverished earl find treasure with the aid of a runaway bride and a ghost? … Continue reading
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The Librarian’s Spell School of Magic 4 by Patricia Rice Can a timid librarian and a bold engineer save a castle’s toppling tower of books? … Continue reading
Jennifer Stevenson’s Fools Paradise gives us Daisy and Bobbyjay, the youngest sprigs from modern Capulet and Montague trees, in “a blue-collar romantic comedy of feuds, follies, and getting your fingernails dirty.”
Continue readingRegency romances have been a “thing” since the Silver Fork novels of the 1830s, which I suspect Georgette Heyer grew up reading. I started reading Heyer as a teen, which taste combined with my love of the Hornblower series by C.S. Forester and … Continue reading
Only a Paper Moon by Jennifer Stevenson Seven corny short stories with happy endings Spy Beanie – Okay, fifty-one years is a looong foreplay. I Remember You – Memory makes our relationships meaningful – trust makes them strong. Value for … Continue reading
Good Girls & Bad Boys Falling in love with a bad boy is a Romance Novel trope that goes back to the beginning of folklore. Beauty and Beast is probably the most recognizable example. Women seem to need to tame … Continue reading
Confessions of a Siren Singer Artistic Demons 3 by Irene Radford Can a Siren switch from luring men to their deaths to healing the world before the International Guild of Demon and Vampire Hunters comes down on her pretty head? … Continue reading
In my own particular mental map of the modern novel’s river, the watershed is Jane Austen. Her books were romantic, but she was not writing romance as it later came to be understood. Romance in the early sense could be … Continue reading
ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN: Maid Marian Strong women who are ready to defend themselves and their loved ones with mannish weapons are often called Amazons. Or a virago. In modern literature we call them kick-ass heroines. Enter Maid … Continue reading
Chicory Up Pixie Chronicles 2 by Irene Radford Being a Pixie King isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Chicory has always been a carefree ditch-weed of a Pixie. But now there’s a war brewing between Pixie tribes, and … Continue reading