American Miss Merry Pelford has infamously broken two betrothals already and her aunt and uncle have taken her to England, where her reputation is slightly less well-known. She’s convinced she’s finally found the man for her when dashing and handsome Lord Cedric Allardyce proposes to her, while quoting poetry. No longer will gossip about her fickle and flighty heart be all that she hears whispered when she enters a room. Cedric’s twin, the Duke of Trent, shows up to the ball where he’s heard rumour […]
A Fearsome Kind of Love
The Door (1987), by Hungarian novelist Magda Szabo (1917-2007), is the story of a writer’s relationship with her older cleaning woman. The two women, a generation apart, develop an antagonistic or love/hate kind of friendship. Emerence, the cleaning woman, is a force to be reckoned with; she has strong views on politics and religion, and she is unafraid of authority. While she is known in the neighborhood for her hard work and generosity, she shows her employer, never named but referred to by neighbors as […]
As Primitive as Can Be – A Historical Romance
Beau Crusoe by Carla Kelly
My list of unread novels from Carla Kelly’s Regency romance catalog is ever dwindling. I have as much faith that I will get to all of them eventually as Kelly herself does in the innate goodness of people. Beau Crusoe, like Libby’s London Merchant, goes in a different direction from many romances and it was pleasing to read something a little bit different and from such a skilled and experienced author. From Amazon: Stranded alone on a desert island, he had lived to tell the tale. A […]
A good dose of the warm and fuzzies
Lincoln has moved back home with his mother after 10 years of drifting through college programs. He takes a job at a newspaper, The Courier, working in IT. He’s there to help minimized the impact of Y2K on the company’s server, but mostly he’s there to enforce the company’s rules about internet and work email usage; he’s to monitor any emails that violate the company’s policy and send warnings to any offenders. This is how Lincoln “meets” Beth and Jennifer, a reporter who now does the […]
Mirror mirror on the wall, why is Mira so unbelievably naive?
Mirabelle has been raised by her extremely overprotective guardians, knowing that her parents died in a fire on the night of her christening. She desperately wants answers about her parents and her background, but her two guardians are none too forthcoming, and so Mira feels she has no choice but to run away. To make sure that the women who raised her don’t immediately track her to Beau Rivage, the place where she was born, she spends the six months before her 16th birthday creating […]
So sweet it’s sour
Patty: We picked this one up because it was dirt cheap but still had nothing but 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon. Glowing reviews. Long-winded reviews. Reviews peppered with lots of exclamation points. You could hear the collective sigh from readers/reviewers who waxed poetic using words like “emotion” and “amazing” and “wonderful”. Patty: Summer is an ambitious twenty-something year old who works at one of those glossy Cosmo-like magazines. She’s worked her way up to an editing position and though she’s comfortable with the world of […]
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