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Staying Single is the first book in Harlequin’s new Flipside series. Too bad there’s nothing new about it. Described in the author’s letter as a cross between Chick Lit and the usual romance novel, the book takes the most familiar ingredients of both and comes off as more than a little stale. Throw in unlikable…
His Mysterious Ways is one of the most unusual series romances I’ve come across in some time. While both the romance and the characterization come up short, this unique paranormal sci-fi romantic suspense is never less than intriguing. Mercenary Jon Lassiter is in charge of security for an American drilling operation in the Central American…
Shirl Henke kicks off a new trilogy by introducing Jason Beaumont, an American set to become both English and his grandfather’s heir. Said grandfather, however, also has plans to marry Jason Beaumont off to his dear friend’s sharp-tongued spinster daughter Rachel Fairchild. And, of course, this all takes place in Regency England. Rachel and Jason…
After I read A Rush of Wings I couldn’t wait to get my hands on its sequel, The Still of Night. Heitzmann introduced the nicely ambiguous character of Morgan Spencer in the first book, made him the third leg of a love triangle, got the reader to respond to him, and then gave him the…
Romance has the Big Misunderstanding. Chick Lit has the Big Lie in which an entire plot is wrapped around the heroine’s failure to be honest. If the heroine would simply tell her boyfriend/friends/fiance the truth, we wouldn’t have a book. Or perhaps we could call it the Big Indecision: The heroine’s life becomes a tangled…
I enjoyed Christine Feehan’s first story about the magical Drake sisters in the Lover Beware anthology earlier this year and looked forward to seeing more of them. I can’t say the same after reading her second story about them in The Twilight Before Christmas. It has a beautiful, atmospheric cover and opens with a nicely…
Return Engagement is a terrific light contemporary romance, a nice big read for anyone who’s been missing this type of book. There’s no suspense plot and no misery and angst, just 400 plus pages packed with story and teeming with characters. There’s so much happening that not even a few standard issue plot elements, namely…
I am not a very big mystery reader, mostly because the journey is more important to me than the end result. But Still Life with Murder, the first of a new historical mystery series by romance author Patricia Ryan, managed to engage me as a mystery and as a character study. The mystery unfolds as…
Midnight Silk is set in Texas during the Civil War, a pleasant change from historical England. It features a road romance between a planter’s daughter and the overseer’s son who has loved her for years. I wanted to enjoy it, but was unable to muster any enthusiasm for such a bland pair as the hero…
Night Falls Like Silk is the sequel to Kathleen Eagle’s The Night Remembers. I haven’t read the earlier book, and if this one is any indication, I don’t really want to – even though I’ve enjoyed the author in the past. Night Falls Like Silk is – well, it’s not very clear. It’s misty. It’s…
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