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If You Dare is the first in a trilogy about three Scottish brothers living under a deadly family curse. Kresley Cole tries to capture the feel of those old-school historical romances, full of sweeping adventure and larger-than-life passion, but annoying characters and a shallow storyline drag the book down. Courtland McCarrick is a Scottish mercenary…
Romance and mystery are my favorite genres, and I’m always looking for good books that combine the two. Murder in the Hamptons looked promising. It offers a love story between reunited lovers and one of those whodunits where a group of people gather together in a big house and one of them turns up dead….
Lips That Touch Mine is third in Lindstrom’s Grayson brothers series. Although its leads were likable and their romance sweet, the storyline itself had a rather stale air. Claire Ashier made the biggest mistake of her life when she defied her parents and married the man she loved. She should have listened when they told…
The Dangerous Protector the second book in a series, and for a time I was totally lost among a crowd of strangers. Evidently the characters had all been introduced in Seductive Imposter and I felt like a Hatfield at a McCoy reunion. While I enjoyed the book, I never quite got over wanting to ask,…
Only now and then am I tempted to pick up a Chick Lit title. I know there’s originality out there, but it still seems like the genre is populated by countless hordes of twenty-somethings who just lost their publishing jobs and their boyfriends. I picked up The Pajama Game because the heroine and I have…
When I began reading romance seriously (almost 11 years ago), Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz was among my first discoveries. My husband was in grad school and money was tight, so I would check out all her books from the library. I had an in with the librarian, who would automatically put my name first on…
The Midas Trap is a globe-trotting adventure in the Indiana Jones mold, with a pair of archeologists in pursuit of an ancient treasure. It’s a very cool story and a fun read. The daughter of two archaeologists, Veronica Bright grew up traveling the Mediterranean with them from one ancient site to another. She was destined…
I love a good bodyguard novel. There’s something about all that forced togetherness that just racks up sexual tension. To The Edge is a bodyguard novel that begins very slowly, but picks up about the middle of the story and ended as a better than average read. Jillian Kincaid’s family are very prominent in Palm…
To readers craving a happy, “feel-good” sort of romance, this debut novel from Trish Wylie will seem like a breath of fresh air. Though the page count is very short, Wylie manages to paint a rich and surprisingly intricate picture of a relationship between two friends who discover that friendship may not be the only…
Do You Believe? has an interesting premise and began with a lot of potential. It’s a paranormal romance, one of my favorite subgenres, and features two story elements that I find appealing: a horror novelist hero and an English setting. But its early promise soon faded as it got bogged down in a slow-moving plot…
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