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I’ve read any number of series that start out good, but get stale along the way. Not so with J.D. Robb’s In Death series. Not only are Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her mega-billionaire husband Roarke still one of the best couples in romance, but there are also enough good secondary characters in the books to…
It’s been a while since I’ve read one of Suzanne Brockmann’s SEAL books. I thought the Tall Dark and Dangerous series got stale with Identity Unknown and Get Lucky, both of which I struggled to finish, and I never got into her single title Troubleshooters series. Night Watch may have been the perfect way for…
The first book I’ve read by Jill Shalvis, Luke is fourth in the American Heroes continuity series subtitled “Men who risk their lives – and their hearts.” The cover copy made me chuckle because while Dr. Luke Walker is certainly a hero (an ER physician with smarts, ethics, and who genuinely cares for his patients),…
Merline Lovelace has written more than 40 historical (in settings as varied as ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece) and contemporary novels. When she’s at her best, as she was in His Lady’s Ransom, The Horse Soldier, and The Captain’s Woman, her characters are honorable and engaging and her research is impeccable. But when she’s not…
Nicole Lassiter and Captain Derek Sutherland are natural enemies – he hates her father and she hates him. When Nicole’s father is imprisoned, she takes her father’s ship to sea for the Great Circle Race in hopes of saving his business. A saboteur causes the pair to be thrown together. What follows is a dance…
Christine Feehan must face an interesting set of challenges when she sits down to write a book. On the one hand, as the author of the extremely popular Carpathian series, she is surely under a great deal of pressure to continue writing the same best-selling formula. On the other hand, she undoubtedly wants to branch…
Wow. There’s really nothing more I can say that would convey my reaction to Kathleen Korbel’s Some Men’s Dreams better than that. It’s simply phenomenal, a book that manages to deliver more deep emotions, intense scenes, remarkable characters and beautiful writing than books twice its length. What Korbel accomplishes within its pages is truly incredible….
Lady Charlotte Quinton was a villain in an earlier book in this series, Romancing the Rogue. She stole a valuable necklace and hid it under the pillow of that book’s heroine, successfully framing the other woman as a thief. When Charlotte was caught a terrible scene ensued, and she was banished from her family to…
Lucy’s Launderette is a Chick Lit novel that seems to wander around with no real sense of where it wants to go. As the book ambles idly along, it makes some interesting points, but doesn’t seem to come to any clear conclusions. Its plot is complex, yet somehow it manages not to touch the reader…
Julia London’s first contemporary romance is a nice take on the theme of the spoiled heiress who has to learn to fend for herself. Most books that I have read with this storyline were screwball comedies, but Material Girl is fairly serious, although it has its lighter moments. A nice story and very likable characters…
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