Cbr10bingo Brain Candy For the “Not in my Wheelhouse” square on my bingo card, I reviewed the romance novel The Hating Game, a CBR favorite but not one of mine. In that review, I indicated that I had read another romance novel that I disliked even more than that one, and ladies and gentlemen, here it is. Secrets of a Summer Night is an historical romance, and I thought that the historical part would make up for some of the romance parts that left me […]
Wait a minute…nice boys don’t kiss like that.
SO let’s just start this by saying I’m an asshole who used to judge Romance. Not romance, like flowers and candy (except don’t ever buy me either, please) but Romance with a capital R. The Romance with the swooning damsels and charming rakes and heaving bosoms and covers like this: I judged the shit out of it. Starting when I was a kid and I first noticed my mom’s drugstore paperback Harlequin novels lying around. UGH I would exclaim WHY DON’T YOU JUST READ A […]
Oh, Lisa Kleypas, I keep hoping…
Doctor Garrett Gibson is the only female physician in England, trained in France and licenced before they got around to changing the rules so other women couldn’t follow her example. She has a good job, working as a staff physician at Winterborne’s department store. She also does pro bono work in the poorer parts of town, and it’s on her way home from one of these jobs that she finds herself accosted by three thugs. While she’s been trained in self defence, things start take […]
Sebastian!
The best (or at least my favorite) romance novel I have ever read is Lisa Kleypas’ Devil in Winter. It features Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent, the best rake ever, and Evangeline Jenner, a wonderful wallflower. Their unlikely union was apparently a fruitful one and now Kleypas has picked Sebastian and Evie’s son Gabriel to star in the third of her new series on the Ravenels, Devil in Spring. Gabriel is much like his father in many ways – incredibly good looking, experienced with the ladies, […]