medieval romances

[meganbmoore]

I may come to regret this, but I think I'm in the mood for medieval-set historical romances(and by that, I mean pretty much anything between the dark ages and when people started abandoning swords for guns.)  Anyone have any good ones to rec?  

(I could post to a community, but I'm afraid of what I'd end up with.)

ETA:  Mention Bertrice Small and I'll be forced to cause physical injury.  I have my limits for historical Mary Sue smut fanfic, and she surpasses them by the first perfect lover, much less the third or fourth.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Hunter's medievals were much better than her Regencies. I stopped following those a few books in. I've read (I hope) all of Jo Beverley's medievals and wish she wrote more. She does an excellent job of drawing you into the period and making you accept things about it (the actions of both parties in Shattered Rose, the one where the heroine's father was killed by the hero in a duel, etc.) that most authors couldn't. Actually, I think I've read all the ones you listed except for Gellis. The only Feyrer that's really worked for me, though, was the first Elizabethan she wrote as Taylor Chase.

[morwen_peredhil]

I've pretty much given up on romance because I only like a particular sort of medieval, and there are hardly any medievals at all being published now. When everything went Regency and vampire, I was SOL.

I've thought of another author. Have you read Anita Mills? She wrote a few good medievals in the late eighties and early nineties.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yup. I refuse to touch most of the vampire romances, and the ones I do touch, I definately don't read for the romances. About all you can expect from most regencies these days, unfortunately, is hopefully decant dialogue. Most of the authors consider reading Julia Quinn to be in depth research. And even Quinn's last few books I read did nothing for me.

I've read a few Anita Mills books, but can't remember which.