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Having read Reavis’s new historical The Bride Fair, I was curious about its relationship to the author’s other historicals. I did a little digging and found out that the The Prisoner is a prequel of sorts, so I searched out a copy of the older book, hoping that it would be as good, but not…
I read another Nadine Miller book several years ago, and though I wracked my brain trying to come up with a title or a plot, I couldn’t remember a thing about it. I had a vague impression that the book was okay, but it was (quite obviously) forgettable. In another couple of years, my thoughts…
After reading Catch of the Day, I’ve decided I may give up on Marcia Evanick. The book starts off with enough juvenile humor and internal lusting that I nearly threw it across the room. Things did improve, but not enough to make me try the author again anytime soon. Gwen Fletcher, a single gourmet chef,…
Grace Notes starts out at a very leisurely pace and never quite gets beyond that. As I read I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. It was a book-long wait. Grace Loring is a successful writer with domestic abuse in her past. That abuse prompted her to write her own story in order…
I don’t think I’ll ever forget where I was when I read Bound to Happen. I had started it on a flight from Denver to Newark and ended up finishing it as I sat for three hours on an airplane that never did take off. I was reading it in galley form and sharing with…
Considering that The Protector is a story involving Chicago firefighters and their escalating problem with a serial arsonist, I was surprised when the first word that came to mind to describe the book was pleasant. For good and ill, the book is pleasant. This fourth entry in the O’Malley series centers on firefighter Jack O’Malley….
I’m only a “sometimes” fan of paranormal romance. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a woo-woo element and I’ll want to read about a ghostly visitor or a time-traveling hero. Probably because of my hit-or-miss approach, that’s what I usually end up with, either a hit or a miss. Occasionally I find something in between….
Three Fates is a Nora Roberts single title that is like one of her trilogies rolled into one. Three great heroines, three great heroes, suspense and a fairly believable villain make this one of the best of Nora’s books I’ve read in a long time. If you haven’t picked up her hardbacks in a while…
What is it about some romance novels that make them stick in my mind? For me, it’s the characters who make a novel unforgettable. Wolf Mackenzie, Eve Dallas, Lord Ragsdale, Jamie and Claire Fraser – they are the reasons I remember their stories. So what about the characters in Shirl Henke’s Wanton Angel? She is…
I’ve heard many positive comments about Susan Sizemore’s Laws of the Blood vampire series, and being a tremendous fan of vampire fiction, I was thrilled to find Laws of the Blood: The Hunt, the novel that began it all. But as I began to read my excitement faded and I continued turning the pages only…
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