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Many Scottish historicals are set either in medieval times or the period surrounding the Jacobite Uprising of Bonnie Prince Charlie, in the mid-1740s. When the Laird Returns gives the reader a glimpse of what the country looked like about a generation later than that, and for that it’s interesting. But an inability to connect emotionally…
Sweet Everlasting has been sitting on my TBR pile for over a year now, and I’m sorry that I waited so long to read it. It was a tender story, and its very existence renews my faith in the potential for good Americana romance. Tyler Wilkes has come to rural Wayne’s Crossing, Pennsylvania to practice…
There’s an awful lot not to like about this book, so why did I basically like it? Lady Margaret Wentworth supports herself and her contingent of servants by working as a part-time investigative reporter for a London journal. Under the pseudonym originally created and used by her brother, she anonymously exposes corruption in the manner…
Sarah Bridges turns thirty-five, and runs smack-dab into a mid-life crisis. She enjoys her job as an ESL teacher very much, but it takes up almost all of her energy and free time. She likes her boyfriend, Stoddard, and yet, three years into their relationship, they’re both insisting that it’s “casual.” She’s written a book…
Whirlpool is an inspirational mystery by another new-to-me author, Lorena McCourtney. The story is interesting and engaging, and readers unfamiliar with McCourtney should be glad to find another solid author in this sub-genre. In a series of tragic events, Stefanie Canfield’s life lurches to an abrupt halt. Her mother dies of cancer and her husband…
I’ve read one romance by Susan Sizemore (The Price of Innocence) and thoroughly enjoyed it. And I love horror/dark fantasy tinged with romance of the variety that Laurell K. Hamilton does so well. So when I found that Susan Sizemore has a series of vampire books set in a world somewhat similar to that of…
During a rescue in Ecuador gone bad, Air Force Major Bruce “Striker” Stanton, a Pararescue Jumper (PJ for short), realizes he only has three regrets in life: “Not having a dog. A house. A wife.” As soon as he gets stateside he immediately rectifies the first two things on the list. The third is going…
I was looking forward to reading my second Luanne Rice book. Although it was a bit of a downer, I enjoyed her earlier Cloud Nine and cared about its characters. I can’t say the same for Safe Harbor, a decent enough read, but one in which that connection to character was lacking. Dana Underhill has…
When it comes to series romances, I normally read the longer ones, usually Silhouette Intimate Moments or Harlequin Superromances. Marriage On Demand is the first title I have ever read in the Harlequin Romance line. I liked it fairly well, but at 186 pages, it was awfully short and left me wanting more. Rena Lambert…
It’s hard for a reader to get involved with a work of fiction when she doesn’t care about the characters. Fictional characters needn’t be nice, but there has to be something about them to draw the reader’s interest. Unfortunately, I was never drawn to the characters in Jill Jones’ Every Move You Make. The problem?…
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