Rosario's Reading Journal

The Bad Man's Bride ( excerpt ) was my first book so far by author Susan Kay Law . At first glance, the lovely Easterner Anthea Bright ...

Man From Half Moon Bay is one of Iris Johansen 's old Loveswepts, from 1988. I've read some of her single title historicals and sus...

Last week I read Whirlwind Courtship , by Jayne Ann Krentz , writing as Jayne Taylor . When Phoebe Hampton arrived quite by accident on the ...

I loved the one Black Lace book I've read by Emma Holly , the wonderful Cooking Up a Storm , and from the excerpt I read of it, Menage ...

I love, love, LOVE books with strong heroines, in gender-bending roles and, from all accounts, that's what The Iron Rose ( excerpt ), ...

I read Heart of Gold , by Sharon Shinn for discussion in one of the book groups I belong to. I'd never read Shinn before, but I'd h...

After reading Sabrina Jeffries ' After the Abduction , I realized that despite certain problems, this author's books have always wor...

I was in a training seminar most of last week, so I've fallen really behind in my blogging. I'll try to be as brief as possible, so ...

I hadn't read one of my old Jayne Ann Krentz categories for some time now. I guess a couple too many bad ones in a row had put me off, ...

I'm very much into gothics, and Beneath the Raven's Moon ( excerpt ), by Emily LaForge sounded interesting, even if the review I r...

After the Abduction , by Sabrina Jeffries , is the third book in the Swanlea Spinsters series . It's not my favourite of that series, bu...

I've heard a lot about the Secrets anthologies published by Red Sage Publishing , so when I saw Secrets Vol 6 available at a friend...

I bought the anthology Scottish Brides mostly for the Julia Quinn story (her short stories in The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown ...

After reading Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time , I was so fascinated by the controversy surrounding Richard III, that I ordered a fe...

Where Is He Now? , was my first book by Jennifer Greene . I think I might have a couple of her old categories in my TBR, but I haven't r...

Dust to Dust (read the first chapter ) is the sequel to Lillian Stewart Carl 's Ashes to Ashes , which I read not long ago. Michael Cam...

A friend lent me The Wild One ( excerpt ), by Danelle Harmon . It's the first in a quartet of which I'd read the third book some ti...

Having just finished Julia Quinn 's When He Was Wicked , I got a little confused by how the timing of that one fit in with both To Sir P...

After reading and enjoying Again The Magic , when I saw Lisa Kleypas ' previous book, Worth Any Price , on someone's trade list, I d...

The Daughter of Time , by Josephine Tey , was recommended on one of the lists I belong to. Since I remember being fascinated by Elizabeth Pe...