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When I first started reading romances, they all featured young heroines with older heroes. My reading tastes have changed over the years, and I don’t enjoy young heroines as much anymore. They inevitably seem, well, immature and naïve. Although the heroine of this book isn’t terrible, she did set my teeth on edge at times….
Rebecca York is an author who’s specialized in writing some unusual stories over the years. Nowhere Man is one of the very best of her roughly five dozen releases. Part military action thriller, part mystery, part poignant romance, it also creates a compelling and unique hero unlike any other in the title character. Targeted for…
If you haven’t tried any of this author’s books yet, you just might want to get to it because The Pirate Next Door is, quite simply, a lot of fun. Watching proper widow Alexandra Alastair learn to let down her guard and actually enjoy falling for her rather unorthodox (to say the least) neighbor was…
Alison Kent has created in her giRL-gEAR series a believable, modern world where men and women behave just a little bit naughtier than they do in real life. While Wicked Games is a smoking read, the book tries to do too much (with its many characters) and too little (with its lack of character details)….
Striptease delivers on the naughtier-than-usual promises of the Harlequin Blaze line, and still manages to be a satisfying series read. While I wish that the story had more room to explore the more challenging questions it raises about women’s careers, on the whole I enjoyed this book by new-to-me author Alison Kent. This latest installment…
There’s nothing like a stupid heroine to ruin a perfectly decent book. Line of Fire contains crisp writing, constant action and an exotic setting. It also has one of the most astonishingly idiotic heroines I’ve had the misfortune to come across in some time. Ever wanted to read a story about G.I. Joe and Barbie…
Diana Gabaldon writes in her introduction to Lord John and the Private Matter that she referred to the book as a “short story” until her agents (quite correctly) informed her that at 301 pages, a Gabaldon short story is the length of most books. That observation, I think, might be the key to understanding this…
Karen Kendall reminds me a bit of Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Someone Like Him is a love story between two very mismatched people who struggle to find common ground. A lot of humor and snappy dialogue kept me turning the pages, while the touching emotion of the love story crept up on me. Nice. Lavender “Vinnie”…
To enjoy a Harlequin Blaze you’ve pretty much got to let logic and cynicism fly out the window. Fair enough. But, when a book’s premise is so, well … repugnant, the authors have set the reader a pretty impossible task. In Tori Carrington’s Night Fever, it was certainly beyond me. Here’s the Problem: On his…
I’m hooked on Kay Hooper’s psychic series. The concept is such an interesting one, and it’s a twist on romantic suspense that sets her apart from most other suspense authors. Her latest entry, this time in hardback, is another consistent entry in the series. A serial killer is after women in the small town of…
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