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B.J. Daniels’s Crossfire is an effective action/suspense story about a SWAT team’s attempts to defuse a hostage situation. While the premise doesn’t allow for much romance, it’s still a good read and one of the best books in the Code Red continuity series so far. Five years ago, Anna Carson was engaged to police officer…
For Camelot’s Honor is the second book in a series featuring brothers from King Arthur’s court. Although the novel is a bit predictable and mundane in the beginning, soon enough it becomes an emotionally packed and suspenseful book that is well worth the read. As the daughter of a Welsh chieftain, Elen leads a rather…
Well, gee, here we go with another average book, made slightly less so by a cartoonish villain, a really precious cute-meet, and a truly Unfortunate Puppy Faux Paws that had me berating the hero for his idiocy. As far as cute-meets go, this is one of the cutest – and that is not a compliment….
For those readers who think Chick Lit is all about spoiled, status-conscious Manhattanites, this book will do nothing to dissuade you. Replace the Manolo Blahniks with a kid, and that’s what you’ve got here. Instead of shelling out a small fortune she can’t afford on the latest designer shoes, the heroine shells out a small…
I had a very hard time deciding what grade to give Tina St. John’s Heart of the Flame. It’s a pleasant read, smoothly told and nicely written, and I can’t really say there’s anything I disliked about it. But while it was nice enough, it had a number of flaws that kept it from being…
This is the last book in Karen Hawkins’s Talisman Ring series. The Talisman Ring belonged to the matriarch of the St. John family, and its legend says that the holder of the ring will find true love. Four St. John brothers have bitten the dust – er, already married – and Marcus St. John, Marquis…
My review copy of Shadow Haven describes it as “a contemporary gothic tale of romantic suspense.” Well, it’s fairly gothic, somewhat suspenseful, and not very romantic. All in all, it’s very much an average read. When Gabriella Deveaux married her husband Charles, she left behind her family home in the Louisiana bayou to begin a…
King’s Ransom tells the story of Bulgaria’s involvement in World War II, and how, despite being an Axis nation, the Bulgarian people succeeded in saving their Jewish citizens from extinction at the hands of the Nazis. It really is a fascinating story, one I was completely unfamiliar with before reading Beazley and Lemmons’ book. The…
Melanie Jackson’s Divine Fire is a paranormal romance with an original and fascinating premise. It’s a very interesting read, but also has a number of weaknesses that make it an uneven one. In 1816, Lord Byron came to stay at the home of Dr. Johann Conrad Dippel, the mad scientist who inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein….
Francis Ray definitely has a way with words. Her word choice and writing style compel the reader to keep turning pages and in her latest novel she creates characters who are strong, interesting people. Sadly, these promising people live in a somewhat clichéd world and inhabit a book that suffers from severe series-itis with its…
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