When I started reading romance novels, about twelve years ago, I asked for recommendations and only read the romance novels that people told me were the best ones out there. This was great as a reading project — some of those early authors remain some of my faves today! — but gave me a skewed sense of the proportion of novels in the genre I should expect to truly excel. Now that I am more conversant in the genre, and reading new releases as they come out, I’m encountering a higher proportion of mediocre books. In particular, I have been feeling…
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A Woman Entangled, Cecilia Grant
Published 30 Jun 2013
by
Jenny Hamilton
Okay okay okay. Greed for Cecilia Grant’s new book compels me to admit that this has been the year I’ve started reading romance novels. I have read enough of them now to have a pretty clear idea of what I like in a romance novel. I like historical romance novels in which the characters are constrained in interesting, specific ways by the time they live in. I like it when the primary characters each have other stuff going on, and I especially like it when the reason they like each other is that they’re impressed with some skill set the…
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