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: Kate Noble
June 22, 2011 | Wednesday | 13 Comments
Heads up! Loveswept is back this time as a digital imprint. I think this is supremely smart of Random House. But watch, since Random House is an agency publisher now (BOOOOOOOOO), the digitally reissued Loveswepts will be $44.99 or some crazy thing. If the price is right, this could so rock. I’m devouring category romances right now. My latest Kirkus column is a review of Kate Noble’s Follow My Lead, which I enjoyed quite much of a lot. So much happens in the course of this book that the journey is the best part, from their needle-in-a-haystack hunt for a…
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June 22, 2011 | Wednesday | 79 Comments
As I mentioned earlier, my recent email exchange with Robinjn following her re-examination of LaVyrle Spencer’s Years got me thinking generally about age differences in romance, and how reactions can vary depending on sub-genre, character, and conflict. In historical romances, the age difference is often expected, or at the least not worth noticing as a potential conflict. In many historicals, the women are younger and possibly virginal, and likely looking or staunchly not looking for a husband (except for that steaming attraction to that guy) (and maybe at some point she wears a pelisse or some boy’s trousers) (or both).…
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March 30, 2010 | Tuesday | 26 Comments
I just finished this book. My eyes are stinging, and I have that doofy smile on my face that comes from good book bliss. This is a book for vacations, for quiet afternoons or evenings when it’s just you, a book, and a few precious hours to yourself, for escape and respite, and for bittersweet and beautiful historical romance. (Yes. I liked it. A lot.) Lady Jane Cummings is better known as “Lady Jane of Society Fame.” She’s a natural in a party setting, she was the toast of London society, and she desperately misses her ability to truly enjoy…
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March 25, 2010 | Thursday | 67 Comments
In one of those, “Wow, everyone’s thinking the same thing,” moments, Faygie Levy at RTBookReview (who is awesome) contacted me about my thoughts on the number of new romances featuring small towns and communities. Starting with the steadily growing popularity of Robyn Carr‘s Virgin River series, along with Toni Blake’s new Destiny series (which I think of as, “Why, yes. Yes, I am excited to read about Ohio”) there are a number of series and romance novel collections set in or around supremely small towns. There could be any number of reasons for this trend, and I won’t jump in…
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