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Strangers in the Night is an anthology containing 3 previously released Linda Howard short stories. Two of them were previously reviewed when they were first released, and while I’m on-board with one of the earlier grades, AAR colleague Marianne Stillings enjoyed the other earlier release a whole lot more than I did. Blue Moon In…
Girl is stranded away from home, boy takes her home to spend holidays with his family, they fall in love, but have to deal with careers and relocation before they can live happily ever after. That is basically the plot of Feliz Navidad, with about 200 pages of minutiae added to fill up the rest…
Hide and Seek had the potential for a truly enjoyable tale. Delanie Eastman’s sister has been kidnapped by an evil drug lord. She must outwit the bad guys and get out of the jungle while lusting madly after Kyle Wright, who isn’t everything he appears to be. A similar plot to the highly successful and…
Heather Graham manages to weave breathtaking suspense, paranormal happenings, and Christmas magic into a unique and enchanting love story. A Season Of Miracles kept me up late to see what happened next, and how it all turned out. And isn’t that what a good book is supposed to do? Jillian Llewellyn is the favorite grandchild…
Juliet Marillier’s second novel Son Of Shadows is not only the perfect sequel to the first novel in her Sevenwaters trilogy, Daughter Of The Forest, but the perfect complement to it as well. It’s less gloomy, but more dangerous in atmosphere, and focuses less on family and more on romance this time. In fact, the…
Feel free to judge this book by its cover. Ordinarily, I’m pretty fond of cartoon covers, but this one has six scary cartoon babies on it, with a couple kissing in the background. While there isn’t actually an unlikely scene like this in the book, the plot is just as far-fetched, impossible, and downright dumb….
Victoria Malvey’s Wedding of the Year is the reading equivalent of an egg cream – a mouthful of airy fizz with just enough chocolate to make it interesting, but not something to linger on the palate. While I wouldn’t take this book to the Desert Isle, I might take it to Grandmother’s house and while…
We have all had the experience of watching a movie or television show where one of the supporting actors steals the show right out from under the star. Remember Alan Rickman as the sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves? I think the star was some guy named Kevin something or other. In…
Live A Little started out on shaky footing, gained a lot of ground with its self-deprecating heroine, but unfortunately went downhill again when she hooked up with the hero. Cynthia Baxter is tired of her boring life. She’s an accountant, engaged (oh no, not again!) to a man more interested in his cell phone than…
A good Regency Romance offers sparkling conversation, delicate humor, genuine emotion, and flashes of sensual allure. What is sometimes missing is the romance of history, the beauty of nature, the color and humor of local characters, and perhaps a certain warmth and dash in the hero’s personality. All those elements are present in Dawn Lindsey’s…
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