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If, like me, you want your holiday characters to go through an It’s a Wonderful Life-style existential crisis and really earn that toast to the richest man in town, Mary Balogh’s double-novel set may be just the Christmas read you’re looking for. A Christmas Bride is engrossingly dark and sexy, and while I didn’t find…
I’m of the belief that it’s hard to sell lasting love when a couple spends little time together, and the very nature of a short story means that relationships become hyper compressed. Despite this doubt, I figured I’d give the four stories of Hot Summer Nights a try as a bit of light beach reading…
The two stories included in Nautier and Wilder were somewhat similar and my reaction to them was much the same. Both stories are romantic suspense and involve women being protected from bad guys by the men in their life. Both dealt with over the top scenarios that put these otherwise ordinary people in danger. Both…
As MaryJanice Davidson states in her (many) author’s notes, she writes flawed characters. Having an array of her characters all together makes it obvious (as Davidson herself says) that she has a thing for writing female leads who try to escape responsibility, only to find out it isn’t an option.
Anthologies are tough. Especially when the short stories are a continuation of a series. I usually try to avoid them because the romances are usually rushed and the ones that are a part of a series can leave an uninitiated reader confused. But for once, I took a chance and it was on the anthology…
Wild Invitation is a compilation of stories set in Ms. Singh’s Psy-Changeling world. The first two stories are ones that have appeared in other anthologies. The second two are new novellas written specifically for this book.
As a reader, what do you expect from a book subtitled “Erotic Romance for Women”? I expected erotica, especially after reading Lorelei James’ foreword that the stories would take “elements of a traditional western and adding in erotic romance.” My reaction was what fun. Imagine my disappointment when the element missing from most of the…
As a reader I know the joy of discovering that an author has given me a further peek into the characters’ lives, or even their children’s lives. However, in Michelle Willingham’s latest anthology the short length of the stories, and the obvious fact that this is a continuation of previous world building, left me feeling…
Any garage sale devotee or antique store aficionado is familiar with the idea of the junk box – a place where for a modest price you can purchase a plethora of odds and ends. Most of the stuff is exactly as the box describes it – junk. Sure, there is the occasional treasure but mostly…
Kiss the Bride is an anthology where all the stories have some connection to a wedding. Some of the connections are looser than others; really it’s just an excuse to have three stories in the same book. They are all of fair quality, though two have somewhat unusual settings.
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