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Movie Review: Ever After starring Drew Barrymore, Dougray Scott, and Anjelica Huston

by Keira 10.03.2011

Ever After has been one of my all time favorite romantic comedies. Drew Barrymore is at her best in this Cinderella spinoff (the first of a long string that soon followed.) Her prince is played by Dougray Scott, a very handsome devil that captures the sulky spoiled regent character very well. This movie is one [...]

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What’s Love Got to Do with It?

by Guest Blogger 05.06.2011

by Sue Moorcroft, guest blogger and author of Love & Freedom When I started to write Love & Freedom, I didn’t realise that, apart from the all-important romance for Honor, my American heroine, there was going to be a subplot that was about mother issues. Honor’s birth mother is English and came from Brighton, on [...]

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Movie Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella Starring Brandy Norwood and Paolo Montalban

by Keira 04.06.2011

I love Cinderella. I don’t really know anybody who doesn’t adore this type of character. Her story is one of rags to riches; poor in money but rich in love. Take her story, a timeless classic, and add Rodgers and Hammerstein to the mix and you have a hit musical. I love all versions of [...]

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Review: Wolf at the Door by Cindy Harris

by Keira 02.22.2011

Wolf at the Door is one of those stories that starts with a pebble falling off the side of a mountain and ends in an avalanche. The pebble is the little white lie Millicent Hyde tells her stepsister about being engaged. The snow drift starts when Sherry asks Captain Alec Wolferton if it is true, [...]

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Review: Love is Blind by Lynsay Sands

by Keira 02.19.2011

I just finished rereading Love Is Blind by Lynsay Sands today. It combines two of my favorite things to read in a romance novel. The hero is scarred and she is practically blind. Plus the sex is steamy. What more could one want? Adrian Montfort, Earl of Mowbray, was scarred in battle against Napoleon. Raw [...]

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Review: Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros

by Keira 12.16.2010

Let’s start this blog with my all time favorite romance novel, Charming the Prince by Teresa Medeiros. The surprising aspect of this story is that I like it despite the myriad of children presented. I am not a fan of them in most cases because I feel they’re not handled properly or serve a purpose [...]

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Review: Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer

by Keira 11.18.2010

I’m a sucker for Cinderella plots. My first one was long ago and on the state reading list for eighth graders, you’ve probably heard of it: Ella Enchanted. The movie by the way is nothing like the book. The only similarity was the names and locations, but this review isn’t about Ella Enchanted or the [...]

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Review: Chase a Green Shadow by Anne Mather

by Keira 11.06.2010

First off I don’t get the title. I suppose I’m missing something, but nevertheless it’s very strange and I couldn’t spot a correlation to the story. This book is another Harlequin Presents oldie. The hero is two years younger than the heroine’s father and more than double the heroine’s age. The author made a strong [...]