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Celeste Bradley is turning into one of the more reliable authors of European Historicals and if this book isn’t an outstanding read, it’s a darn good one. And, frankly, considering what’s out there these days, there’s a lot to be said for that, isn’t there? The third book in her Liars Club series, The Spy…
William Faulkner once wrote: “The past is not dead, it’s not even past.” These words certainly hold true for the heroine of Mariah Stewart’s latest thriller in which she takes the reader on an exciting ride into the world of a crime-fighter touched in her own life by crime. Kendra Smith is a freelance compositor…
There’s something to be said for an author who paints such an erotic image of a woman getting her blood sucked that you find yourself appraising the incisors of every man you meet. But although I enjoyed reading about the Carpathians in Christine Feehan’s Dark Melody, the writing style was problematic enough that any recommendation…
Remember the first time a pimple appeared the morning of a super-special evening? There it was, smack dab in the middle of your nose and you had a prom to go to that night. Would your light pink dress match the angry red zit? Could you get through the evening without anyone mentioning Rudolph the…
Everything I know about the movie business I learned from reading Entertainment Weekly and watching The Player, but I’m a sucker for a Tinseltown story. That said, I wasn’t sure what to think of this book as I read the back-cover blurb: how could a book about somebody in the “adult film” industry be any…
No Place for a Lady took me a long time to read – a very, very long time to read. It started off interestingly enough, but after the first three chapters or so I lost interest in these characters, and things did not improve from there. Marcus Kane, Lord Chadwick, is the heir to an…
Scent of a Killer starts out as a decent romantic suspense novel, fast-paced and quite readable. But it gradually becomes as wobbly as a house of cards. Since it’s built on a very unstable foundation of far-fetched elements and suspect choices, it doesn’t hold up well under scrutiny. On the night of her first professional…
This is a difficult book to grade. It took me two weeks to get through the interminable first 190 pages, and then I devoured the remainder in an evening. It features the kind of selfish jackass hero that, under the right circumstances, I sometimes like. The first 190 pages do not provide the right circumstances,…
If you’re not familiar with Emma Holly’s name, you should be aware that her books are a bit different from other romance novels. Before moving into the historical romance arena, she wrote straight erotica for Black Lace, among other publishers. Classifying this book is difficult as it is more sexually explicit than just about anything…
There were a great many unique ideas in Midnight Angel that I enjoyed. However, as I continued reading, the heroine grew annoying, parts of the storyline became cliched, and the villain turned into cardboard. <!– var browName = navigator.appName; var SiteID = 1; var ZoneID = 4; var browDateTime = (new Date()).getTime(); if (browName=='Netscape') {…
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