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Old School Romance Book Reviews
Highland Barbarian by Ruth Langan is a solid start to her series about the Mac Alpin clan, but …
The Heart Remembers is Barbara Hazard’s sequel to one of the more poignant and beloved romance novels I’ve …
This review is of Passion’s Bride, aka The Captain’s Lady by Jo Goodman. The book begins in 1809, …
Gina Wilkins’ Could It Be Magic is a comfy romance read. Gwen DeClerck is a staid, young widow, …
The Treacherous Heart by Angela Alexie is a tale of a Gaelic, black-haired, fiery-spirited lass forced by circumstances …
Wendy Brown is a not-yet-21-year-old Englishwoman who’s been given the worst news imaginable: she has an inoperable brain …
Barbara Riefe’s Tempt Not This Flesh was yet another inexplicable bestseller for the gender-bending author whose real name …
Cheyenne Captive by Georgina Gentry is the first book in her very long-running Panorama of the Old West …
Zebra Heartfire Romance Love’s Glorious Gamble by Dana Ransom Gloria Daniels teams up with gambler Sterling Caulder to …
Paradise & More by Shirl Henke is memorable to me for having one of the most eye-catching covers …
Glory Days by Marilynne Rudick is a Harlequin Temptation from the early 1990s. It’s one of the few …
This review is of Texas Treasure, book #1 in the “The Cowboy and the Lady” series by Victoria …
Ecstasy’s Treasure by Jean Haught gets better in the second half after a lackluster first, but the ending …
Harlequin Presents #109 Roberta Leigh’s Temporary Wife features a great heroine for a great book. 5 stars …
Charlotte by Amanda Hart Douglass is a circa 1978 historical romance novel set during the American Civil War, …
Harlequin Romance #3457 The Secret Baby Day Leclaire Damien plans revenge on Sable who left him to marry …
This review is of Nobility Ranch (ebook title To Love a Lady), book #1 of 3 in the …
Ruth Langan’s Highland Heather is the sequel to her previous Scottish romance, Highland Barbarian. I liked this Harlequin …
This review is of Comanche Bride, a standalone January Zebra Lovegram from 1989 by Emma Merritt. There are …
My Name is Clary Brown by Charlotte Keppel (nee Ursula Torday) was first published in 1976 under the …
A Love to Last Forever by Linda Randall Wisdom is a fine romance between two former high school …
Candace Schuler’s contemporary romance Harlequin Temptation #284 Wildcat features battle of wills between a tempestuous female and an …
Driving Force, a Sally Wentworth Harlequin Presents, offers few surprises but is a satisfactory read regardless. West Marriot– …
What can I say about Valerie Sherwood’s These Golden Pleasures? Well, this 512 page epic starts out wonderfully …
Moonstruck Madness was Laurie McBain’s second and, in my opinion, her best book. It is a thrilling read …
Harlequin Historical #90 Stranger in My Arms by Louisa Rawlings is a book I’ve read many times, and …
Danelle Harmon’s Georgian-era historical romance series of four brothers and one sister begins with The Wild One. Lord …
Tender Feud by Nicole Jordan is one of the better Scottish clan feuding & kidnapping love stories I’ve …
This review is of Tender Savage, a standalone Zebra Lovegram by Phoebe Conn. Tender Savage starts in Wilmington, …
When a book begins with a typo, that’s not a good sign, and Ecstasy’s Fire by Rosalyn Alsobrook …
In Surrender to Love by Rosemary Rogers an independent woman from Ceylon travels the world looking for love …
The action-packed and romantic medieval Lady of Fire by Anita Mills features one of the greatest villains ever …
Sea Fires, a Zebra Lovegram by Christine Dorsey, features bookish yet feisty Miranda Chadwick as the heroine, who’s …
Amber Fire by Elaine Barbieri is the first in a trilogy of Zebra historical romances where the heroine …
In Meet the New Dawn, the penultimate book of her “Savage Destiny” Western historical romance series, author Rosanne …
Over 22 years and under two different publishers, Johanna Lindsey wrote 12 romances about the Malory & Anderson …
Dark Before the Rising Sun, is the last installment in the Laurie McBain trilogy that began with Moonstruck …
Passion’s Prize is a Zebra Heartfire romance from 1990, later republished as Holt’s Gamble, the first in the …
The Dream, the first entry in Barbara Delinsky’s Crosslyn Rise Trilogy, is the story of a woman who’s …
In this edition of Dueling Reviews, Blue Falcon reviews Lovefire by Deana James. It tells the story of …
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