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The prologue for Single White Vampire, with the hero’s all-too succinct responses to letters from the heroine, made me laugh, and I settled in for a funny read. The rest of the book did have its moments, but too many in-jokes and a heroine who’s both dull and annoying put a damper on the fun….
A person can’t help but be intrigued by a book which opens with the line, “I didn’t kill Harvey Kredd; somebody beat me to it.” From there we learn how Claire Westbrook’s distinctly unpleasant boss met his end. Actually, the reader also learns quite a bit about Claire as she proceeds to give a brief…
A cast of secondary characters straight out of a bad sitcom and a series of painful plot contrivances that are . . . well, painfully contrived irrevocably mar what could otherwise have been an entertaining romance. Think I’m exaggerating about those secondary characters? Try this: An Italian grandmother who thinks “everything in life can be…
A thirty-something widow goes in search of herself and finds the love she’s always deserved in Nancy Herkness’ debut novel. A Bridge to Love is a fast-paced, sexy, and sometimes humorous read in which the hero and heroine both learn that mutual attraction cannot be ignored. A widow with two adolescent children, Kate Chilton had…
One of my fellow reviewers recently wrote in a review of J.D. Robb’s Imitation in Death that the secret to a good continuing series is a strong main character surrounded by an equally strong supporting cast. This certainly holds true in A Killing Gift, the latest installment in Leslie Glass’s police procedural/mystery series featuring Detective…
For those of you who have waited patiently for the final chapter in Chapman’s Highlander trilogy, Wedding the Highlander was so worth the wait. In Michael MacBain’s story, there is a lot more magic, a more intense romance and whole lot of great sex. Libby Hart is a trauma surgeon from California and she’s running…
The Family Secrets series has been somewhat of a disappointment for me so far, not really living up to the coolness of its premise, about the search for five genetically-engineered siblings created in an experiment in the 1960s. The good news is Cindy Gerard’s The Bluewater Affair gets the series back on track. It also…
What a waste. As its title indicates, Pyramid of Lies takes place in Cairo, Egypt. Not that you’d know it from the book. This story could have taken place anywhere. World-renowned cryptologist Gretchen Wagner came to Egypt to decipher a set of ancient tablets that might be the key to an unknown language. But, being…
The Player is the third in the Family Secrets series and while there’s much good about it, it suffers from an almost fatal flaw. The writing is strong. It has a really distinctive sense of place that adds a lot to the story. There are a number of terrific scenes and it nicely advances the…
Haunted is a flawed and repetitous contemporary ghost story with an old-time gothic feel. Reading it is like entering a time warp; I wondered whether it was really set in the present-day or in the old South because of inconsistent characters, dialogue, and attitudes, and because certain plot threads could have been lifted from a…
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