diction

Review: Because You’re Mine by Lisa Kleypas

by Keira 05.13.2011

Because You’re Mine is a delicious, exquisite, and absorbing read. Absolutely delightful from start to finish. The pacing, diction, plot, and characters were all to my liking. There was nothing in the novel that drew me out of the reading experience. Honestly, I just couldn’t put it down. I have a love of all Kleypas [...]

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Review: Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer

by Keira 01.31.2011

The second Georgette Heyer novel that I read was a lot easier to get through. It helped that there was few if any references to my lord or my lady in the narrative. The diction used is as exacting and up there as Devil’s Cub. This novel was longer but I read it in less [...]

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Review: Darcy Saga: Book One: Two Shall Become One by Sharon Lathan

by Keira 12.30.2010

What I love most about this book is the research and language used to express the time period. Lathan’s diction is vastly superb – I had to look one or two words up. (Romance novels have all the credit when it comes to my 750 verbal SAT score from way back when.) The way she [...]

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Sexy Romance versus Erotica Romance

by Keira 12.17.2010

This post is in response to Historical Romance – How Much Heat is Too Much? The original post is by Evangeline Collins, author of Her Ladyship’s Companion (releases in May 2009). In the comments I explored what I thought made the difference between a sexy romance and an erotica romance and then I thought it [...]

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The Language of Literary Sex

by Keira 11.17.2010

For this article we’re going to skip over the titillating parts about raging tumescence and disintegrating virginal barriers otherwise known as land of frankness and euphemisms. We won’t be discussing weeping fluids, honey, dew, or the elixir of love. We’re doing this American and bypassing all foreplay and going straight for the mechanics of making [...]

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10 Reasons Why I Can’t Read Georgette Heyer

by Zarabeth Golden 10.02.2010

By Zarabeth, guest blogger I know a lot of people like Georgette Heyer and this post isn’t meant to step on your toes in any way if you do, but I really can’t read her! I am a huge fan of historical romance novels and was excited to try the genuine article. I tried, I [...]

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What NOT to Write: 10 Ways to Commit Romance Novel Suicide

by Keira 07.27.2009

There are some things that just make it impossible to continue reading a book. So let’s be blunt about the stuff that really ticks us off…like a lot. How many of these romance novel suicides have you run across? Have your heroine or hero willingly/actually cheat on the other. Sometimes the hero or heroine find [...]

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Review: The Anonymous Miss Addams by Kasey Michaels

by Keira 03.27.2009

There are few books that I can’t finish reading. The Anonymous Miss Addams is one that list. Some books make you question how publishing companies work and this is one of them. In two words I can sum up the whole of the book: utter drivel. I have no idea how it got published or [...]