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I am convinced that Carla Kelly doesn’t have it in her to write a bad book, or even a mediocre one, and her latest effort only confirms that impression for me. One Good Turn marks her return after several years’ absence from publishing, and it carries all her trademarks: complex and sympathetic characterization, an unflinching…
I hope that Regency Romance readers aren’t frightened away from this book by the dreadful cover. The hero and heroine are pictured outdoors. He looks like an underpaid model from the J.C. Penney catalogue, with his arm swinging up in a way that can only be called “dorky.” She’s worse; her dress is a green…
I picked up a copy of Streets of Fire on the recommendation of Sandi Morris, AAR’s technical editor. She told me to expect a heavy read, but a good one. She was right. Sydney Foster is a successful businesswoman who has dabbled a bit in lost causes over the years. Her own history is as…
OK, what’s the Number 1 Female Fantasy? Forget sex for now. Let’s concentrate on the more imaginative stuff. In my opinion, it’s got to be one of two things: it’s either Healing the Tortured Soul or Taming the Rake. Both are delicious fantasies, and I’d say they regularly tangle with each other for the top…
The Star Prince picks up Susan Grant’s futuristic world seven years after The Star King ends. Ian Hamilton has been picked by his alien stepfather to be Crown Prince for the Galaxy and has been sent on a mission to the frontier and Earth. He unknowingly hires a runaway Vash Princess as his sky pilot…
I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting when I picked up A Reckless Encounter by Rosemary Rogers, one of the queens of seventies-style epic romance. Certainly I didn’t expect it to be so boring. Reading this book was about as exciting as watching an undubbed foreign film: I could see what the characters are…
Sometimes it almost seems like plot ideas float around in the air. Five or six years ago, I read three separate westerns about tone-deaf heroines who wanted to be saloon singers. Last year mistress books were all the rage. And this year? It has to be love lessons. I’ve seen no less than five of…
As Major Anthony Wyclyff lies in his hospital bed dying of fever, he begs his charitable visitor Sophia Rathburn to marry him. Lady Sophia, an old hand at hospital visits, accepts his proposal. It’s her standard response, intended to give comfort when she’s certain the patient is dying. Considering that no one ever, ever succumbs…
I had certain preconceptions about this book, because judging from the advance copy I was given, it seemed to be “Women’s Fiction” rather than romance. So I expected a lyrical profundity in the prose, as what you might experience in, say, Anita Shreve’s writing – charming but not exactly what you’d call fast-paced. I also…
Anyone who read Shay’s original America’s Bravest trilogy remembers being left hanging by the final scene in Code of Honor, when the heroine’s sister ran off after New Year’s Eve kiss with the man she’s been butting heads the entire book. For all of you who’ve been waiting for Delaney Shaw and Reed Macauley’s story,…
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