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This is a very lucky year for Carla Kelly fans: two new books to enjoy, after years of more occasional publishing. If you’ve read Kelly before, you know her books stand out. In a veritable sea of Duke This and Earl That, she writes about ordinary people who fall in love. Her language is never…
Lip Service is part of Susan Mallery’s Lone Star Sisters series, featuring the daughters of Jed Titan, a rich and nasty Texas businessman. I found a few bits in the book to interest me, but on the whole, I was pretty well underwhelmed. When Skye Titan was a teen she was in love with Mitch…
Holy golly Moses. I’ve never put a publishing company on my auto buy list, but if this is what Medallion is putting out, considering the other recent stellar reviews here at AAR, I might just have to change my mind. Because this was, hands down, the best romantic suspense I’ve read since Angels Fall. And…
This book was an unusual choice for me. I don’t usually like paranormals, time travel romances, or medievals—and yet this book is all three. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Till There Was You by Lynn Kurland. Zachary Smith doesn’t want to do any more century-hopping, so when he stumbles back…
Several times in my life I’ve met people who seemed quite nice – not ostentatious, perhaps rather bland, but nice, which is always a good thing. And then I get to know them, and their idiosyncracies become annoying little habits, and their companionship begins to pall. Which describes my reaction to The Confessions of a…
Back in grade school, when most of my friends were reading Archie comic books, I was enthralled with superheros. Archie and Veronica were boring; I liked The Fantastic Four, the Avengers and the X-Men (I was a devout Marvel fangirl) and even now, I still can geek out over a good superhero story with the…
Have you ever wondered how the Indiana Jones movies would translate into book form? Me either – until recently. Siren’s Secret had me thinking about it. “And then, this really scary and accomplished swordsman appeared and started brandishing his sword at Indy. He totally looked like a threat, but Indy just pulled out his gun…
I’m a big – big – fan of Emma Holly who writes hot sex as well as great couples. I’m also a big – big – fan of stories in a series that stand on their own. They usually encompass a larger world of characters, but provide sufficient focus on two main ones. So when…
Man, I loved this book. Ms. James’s writing has gotten better and better, and this time she’s created a wistfully romantic story between an estranged married couple who overcome huge misunderstandings to find that they truly love each other after all. Jemma, the Duchess of Beaumont, has been separated from her husband for nine years….
Jennifer Haymore’s debut novel, A Hint of Wicked, is another romance with an older and more experienced heroine – in this case, not a widow, but a lady who suddenly finds herself with two husbands. While this basic plotline is reminiscent of Mary Balogh’s Tangled (down to the detail that the two young men are…
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