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Brenda Jackson’s newest book, The Savvy Sistahs, is a terrific read about finding friendship when you most need it, and finding love when your heart is ready. It’s a “keeper” in the truest sense. The book’s savvy sistahs are Amber Stuart, Branda Bennett, and Carla Osborne. The three met when they formed a support group…
Mimi Riser’s first book in 25 years, I Do, suffers from a variety of serious problems. Too much plot, too many voices, and a mish-mosh of sub-genres result in this mess of a novel, which features a marriage of convenience, switching places, a half-breed stuck between two worlds, a heroine who runs at every turn,…
Terri Harrington’s Flashback may not be the best-written time travel romance I’ve ever read or the deepest, but it is my favorite. It’s a simple story, one which takes a different approach to the material than many others. It’s not concerned with the mechanics and complications of time travel. It doesn’t spend time showing how…
The Redwyck Charm features Marcus Redwyck, Earl of Amberley, a charming beta hero. Marcus is good, kind, decent, hardworking, and that rare creature, a male virgin. Beta heroes are sometimes dull, but Marcus was too intense to be dull and I thought he was the best thing in the book. If only the heroine, Julianna,…
This is a difficult book to grade because while After the Fire definitely showcases everything consistently good about Kathryn Shay’s work, it also highlights the things that repeatedly make her a frustrating read for me. An excellent writer with strong command of plot, character development, and a skill for portraying real, multidimensional relationships, Shay often…
Girl’s Guide to Hunting & Kissing was a purchase born of desperation. I was on break and had an hour to kill, and I’d lost the book I was reading earlier in the day (the book and I were happily reunited later, but that’s a story for another day). I wanted a quick read, so…
Somewhere in this book there was a story that I wanted to read. A young girl publicly and painfully jilted in her first season by a cad who targeted her and planned the stunt to get into an elite club. The cad’s brother, an honest and decent man, meets this girl six years later and…
The Silver Lion was a book that was both hard to read and hard to grade. It took me nearly ten days to get through it (a very long time for me), mostly because I found it very easy to put down. On the other hand, by the time I neared the end of the…
The Duke of Slut is such an oft-reviled character that many romance readers have taken to avoiding these so-called heroes like the plague. However, when a Duke of Slut is drawn with a touch more depth and subtlety (a bit of shame and humility don’t hurt either) and if he meets a heroine who confronts…
For anyone thinking to pick up Christina Dodd’s One Kiss From You, be aware that there’s a typo on the opening page; a very significant word was omitted from the heading of the first chapter, which should read “Bizarro London, 1806.” Once you realize that, the antics that ensue from that point forward will be…
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