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Jo Leigh’s Scent of a Woman is a keeper in the truest sense. It’s not perfect, and I’m not sure I would have given it a grade of “A” when it first came out. But it’s a book I’ve kept and reread several times over the last few years, and I appreciate it more and…
Okay, so you won’t find any Regency spies or half-baked suspense plots in Edith Layton’s latest. That’s the good news. The bad news is that you also won’t find a lot of reasons to keep turning the pages either. To put it bluntly, Alas, My Love is a classic Regency in Disguise and, what might…
“Jane Austen meets Genghis Khan on the set of Lawrence of Arabia.” – that’s how author Kate Elliott sums up Jaran. It’s an apt description for a rich tapestry of a novel filled with adventure, romance, and clashing cultures, all combined with a certain comedy of manners sensibility about which I believe Miss Austen would…
The reality TV show craze has passed me by, I have to admit, and so I opened this book warily. A woman with self-esteem issues wants to publish her body-fat index on the Internet? She wants to get weighed on live TV? But then the hero strolled in, and oh my, he melted more than…
For a long time my biggest wish for Feehan’s Carpathian romances was a strong heroine that would stand up to the extremely alpha Carpathian male. In Dark Secret, I got too much of what I wished for – the heroine is such a strong character that her relationship with the hero had violent aspects and…
The Lady Doth Protest seems to be loosely based on Lysistrata, a play where the women of Athens barricade themselves in the Acropolis and refuse to let the men have sex with them until they make peace with Sparta. Only Klassel’s humor is a bit broader than Aristophanes’. Lady Margaret de Languetot, called Megge by…
Bette Ford’s latest contemporary, An Everlasting Love, is an emotional read about a heroine with one huge obstacle to overcome and a hero who is patient enough to wait. Brynne Armstrong had almost everything she wanted. She was on track to getting the degree she promised her deceased parents she would earn, and was dating…
I have to say is that Silhouette Desire’s Dynasties: The Ashtons is proving to be a big yawn. The first book in the series, Eileen Wilks’ Entangled, wasn’t bad at all, but it’s been downhill ever since. Megan Ashton is the daughter of Spencer Ashton, the clan’s evil patriarch. The Ashton’s vineyard is a popular…
No, I did not make a mistake in the page count for Hello Gorgeous It has 195 pages, and a few teasers for other Brava books. And it is $14.00. For that amount, I could have bought three Silhouette Desire titles and had a bit of change left over. If you’ve read any of MaryJanice…
Blythe: Linda, Tina St. John’s been writing for years, and her first three books were DIK’d by AAR. In a way, it’s kind of surprising that I’d never read her before, but Heart of the Flame is the first of hers that I’ve tried. I think part of the reason is that I’m not the…
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