The Rake's Bargain

This book felt really schizophrenic. The two main characters sine-waved back and forth between different extreme behaviors with no in-story justification for the shifts. And the plot felt extremely contrived in places, like the author really wanted to portray a particular scene and jumped through wh......more

An actual story for a change!......more

A girl in disguise manages to ensnare a duke traveling incognito. With this play off Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, the stage is set for misunderstandings, betrayals, bitterness, sibling love, misplaced love, escapades and escapes. There’s no mention of the Bard in the blurb, making this reader’s di......more

So I’m 1 for 2 with my Harlequin Historicals experience, which I guess is par for the course, but I was hoping this would be another good one, but alas this was more of a dud. The opening scenes were pretty good and starts out with really the most action of the whole novel. There is a theft, a near e......more

A quick but entertaining book The heroine was young but intelligent. The hero was less likeable but believable. Interesting story with a couple of diverting plot twists. I would have enjoyed having another chapter or two to be see how happily ever after was actually achieved.......more