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The heroine of Good Time Girl is a woman, I suspect, who reads a lot of Harlequin Romances. After twenty-nine years of being a good girl, Roxanne Archer is determined to have one wild fling, and that fling just has to involve a cowboy. On summer vacation from her teacher’s job, she heads west, gets…
So I’m in this thrift shop, looking at the shelves of dilapidated, abandoned paperbacks, their pages yellow and acid-brittle, reading the titles on the spines with numbed curiosity – so many books, so many stories, so many of them forgotten and forgettable – when I see the name “Laura London.” My eyes widen: I know…
This is the somnolent story of a lost ivory pin and the unfunny, inept attempts to recover it. Some 200 pages after the mystery of the pin is introduced, you’ll be asking yourself why you should care: the plot meanders along the same meaningless path as the characters’ unexciting courtship. One afternoon Lady Harriet Dane…
I love those angst-y stories in which dark, tortured heroes and heroines burdened with equally dark secrets grimly battle genuine adversity. Definitely, count me in. But there is also a real pleasure to be found in another type of novel – one featuring bright, cheerful, nice people who, while facing their own genuine adversity, manage…
I would categorize myself as somewhat of a Deborah Smith fan. I loved, absolutely loved A Place to Call Home. Reading it was one of the highlights of last year for me. The problem is, that none of Smith’s other books have really knocked it out of the park for me like that one did….
If High Country Bride were a mainstream novel, some of its story elements would be laughed off the page. We have an only-in-a-romance will, wild west prostitutes who stay beautiful and never come down with STD’s, and a heroine who is supposed to have gone to good schools, but comes off as a clueless simp….
Having just read Isolde Martyn’s dense new medieval The Knight and the Rose, I was definitely ready for something light and fluffy as a change of pace. And while To Charm a Knight was both light and fluffy, it unfortunately was not very good. Victoria Desmond’s billionaire boss, H. Walter Harrington, is a medieval buff….
Patti Berg’s latest release, Something Wild, at first made me think of the recent trends in series romances; if this were one, it would be titled “The Cowboy Preacher And The Virgin Showgirl.” Despite that (admittedly unpromising) premise, I found it to be a moving tale of love in real life, where things don’t always…
Those of you knowledgeable about head trauma and amnesia, turn away now. This is definitely not a book for anyone who finds they can’t suspend their disbelief about plots where a character takes a blow to the head and subsequently suffers from amnesia (but no other brain damage or dysfunctions) – a cliché which was…
A True And Perfect Knight features poorly developed characters in a swiss-cheese plot, with the added bonus of several historical inaccuracies – or rather, historical events that the author has moved around in time to suit the needs of her storyline. While a touch of mystery toward the end adds some suspense, the resolution is…
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