Fans of romance recognize what a wonderful genre it is, yet still acknowledge that it is subject to the same vagaries as any other type of writing. A fiction fan doesn’t love all fiction, and an avid romance reader doesn’t love all romances. But Julie Anne Long is one author to recommend to anyone who loves to read, period. Long writes predominantly historicals of the Regency era, that temptingly fascinating period at the turn of the 19th century. And her latest work for Avon, The Perils of Pleasure (a colleague hated the title, though I was less inclined to dwell on it), is marvelous.

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