Laura Kinsale never disappoints me. In For My Lady’s Heart, she has written a masterpiece, not just of romance, but of universal literary merit. It’s one of the most subversive works of literature I’ve read. Well, listened to actually. My husband and I got the audio book and played it in the car on road
Trust is an interesting phenomenon. In love or friendship, it’s what lets people relax, let down their guards and just enjoy each other for who they are without worrying about being judged, hurt or ridiculed (except in good fun, of course). In romance novels, one or both characters’ lack of it is often the main
Are you familiar with the concept of “book boyfriends”? Picking out a particular hero and referring to him as your book boyfriend seems like pretty common practice among romance lovers. My first was probably the Phantom of the Opera. Even in high school I loved me a tortured hero. The reality of tortured boyfriends is
The other day, my proclivity for loving really, really broken characters and gleefully watching as an author puts them through the wringer came up in a conversation on Twitter. The context was Jackie Ashenden’s Having Her, in which a hero with a schizophrenic mother and a heroine with a struggling business and virginity issues tumble
I’m a late Laura Kinsale convert. Her first book was published when I was still a kid, but in my early absorption with Julie Garwood and a whole host of Harlequin titles (which could be had for 25 cents each from my local used bookstore), I never ran across her work. It wasn’t until
