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Time Rogues belongs in that dreaded category: “Good Idea, Not-So-Good Execution.” There are times when the story is strong enough to keep it interesting, but too often the annoying romance and confusing premise drag it down, making it much less than it could have been. The book immediately gets off on the wrong step. As…
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation is a genre-bending book. It begins by introducing Eloise Kelley, our heroine in designer shoes; but instead of being a Chick Lit chick, said heroine is a student researching an historical figure. It doesn’t take too long before she finds a cache of diaries and letters, and pretty…
I do love books with brainy heroes and heroines, so I was really looking forward to reading To Kiss A Frog, a book with a scientist heroine. Well, Elaine Smith may be a scientist, but she wasn’t very bright. And the book was nothing special either. When Craig Thibodeaux, uncharacteristically for him, refused to sleep…
Full Bloom is a book full of silly, frequently outrageous situations and characters, but in the end these crazy situations were too much, leaving me exhausted by all the activity. It is the fifth in a series, the first of which was an expanded version by Evanovich and Hughes of a 1989 series romance Evanovich…
Even though I enjoy the occasional Chick Lit book, I am not exactly a huge fan. But from the beginning, Meg Cabot’s fun and silly story, written primarily in journal entries and emails, pulled me in for an enjoyable read I had trouble putting down. World renowned cartoonist Jane Harris has never been out of…
On the Scent is a thoroughly original and wonderfully different romantic mystery. It features M.J. Rodgers’s trademark intelligent characters and creative touches. Most of all, it’s just a lot of fun. Diann Torrey is the head chemist for the American perfume company Man to Woman. While in Paris for the International Fragrance Fraternity’s annual symposium,…
To a big degree, this new kick-butt heroine trend is not my thing. Or, rather, maybe a better way to put it is that I’m v-e-r-r-ry picky about my heroines and the way they kick butt. Susan Grant, for example, writes the kind of strong and capable heroines I adore, while the Bombshell style of…
Judging by the wonderful cover and the blurb on the back of the book, I expected She Woke Up Married to be a fast, funny romantic comedy. While it had its humorous moments, they were pretty few and far apart. Instead, the book focused on the heroine, who was a selfish, spoiled prima donna for…
You know, the hardest part of writing a review isn’t supposed to be picking a category for the book. Windwalker isn’t really a Romance since the main protagonists don’t actually meet until page 265 and there isn’t a traditional HEA. Despite a few half-hearted paranormal elements, it’s not really a Paranormal either. And, even though…
About Last Night appealed to me because the hero is a college professor, and I loooooove smart men. Sadly, I should have checked to see if the heroine matched him in the I.Q. department…she didn’t. Miranda Carter and Colin Jacobs grew up together in a small town in Maine, the best of friends through snowball…
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