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In her second contemporary romance, Mary Jo Putney tells the tale of a memorable tortured hero and the woman who refuses to give up on him. While this sounds like a conventional love story, the special characters prove that, as always, Putney can be relied on to deliver something different. The result is a book…
And they say women are the sentimental sex? Fallen Angel is so filled with Hallmark moments it’s a card store in a book. Young boy confronts tragedy, teen estranged from the Old Man, young man gets rich, mature man leaves the big city and comes home to small town where he finds himself and true…
I love second chance at love stories and I wish that publishers would do more of them. They offer the reader a chance to see couples work through conflict and come out stronger and more united than ever. Gemstone had some promising elements: A rich boy married a poor girl but the marriage was broken…
In Loving Jessie, two childhood friends fall for each other. Despite this not-used-enough premise, the book suffers from sheer unbelievability. Some of the plotlines are too old-fashioned for a contemporary romance. Throw in weak characterization and blatant head-hopping and the result is a story that’s both bland and annoying. Jessica Sinclair, Matt Latimer, and Reilly…
Princess Julia Sebastiani of the Mediterranean kingdom of Montebello has been threatened. In an attempt to learn more about those who mean Julia harm, the FBI plans to parade a decoy Julia on a highly-publicized tour through the U.S. FBI agent Laurie Lewis, a sweet Nebraska farm girl who happens to look just like Julia,…
The main problem with Janelle Taylor’s In Too Deep is not bad writing or poorly crafted characters. The problem is that once you’ve read the first few pages of the book, you can guess pretty much everything that is going to happen with a high degree of accuracy. In other words, there’s not much suspense…
Sheltered in His Arms is a spin-off from Tara Taylor Quinn’s Superromance trilogy Shelter Valley Stories, but you don’t need to have read the preceding books to enjoy this one. I hadn’t, and I enjoyed this story very much. Cassie Tate is a woman scorned, and you know what they say about that kind of…
Jennifer Malin’s second release, Eternally Yours, is an promising love story with a serious side, as the hero and heroine – both of whom have been hurt before – struggle to find both trust and love again. The unique plotline and strong premise fail to completely make up for the somewhat one-dimensional characters, however, and…
Generally when I review a book I only glance at the back cover blurb to get a brief idea of what the book is about. I want to have a bit of an idea as to the setting and plot but don’t want to prejudice my review in any way with expectations. Sometimes, even with…
It’s official: I’m a geek. I have progressed from reading about fictional Navy SEALs to reading about real ones. The Warrior Elite was reviewed in my local paper recently, and I picked it up from my library for a couple of reasons. First of all, I’ve read a lot of Brockmann in the last couple…
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