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I don’t believe in corporal punishment, but about half way through My Warrior I would’ve cheered had Holden de Ware taken Cambria Gavin over his knee and given her backside a thorough tanning. Unfortunately, Holden has the patience of Job and allowed Cambria to continue her bursts of idiocy throughout the book. Angus Gavin, lord…
I don’t usually go for the baby books in the romance section of the bookstore, but I know that in the hands of a gifted storyteller, a plot that I normally do not like can be raised to another level. Ms. Freethy is just that, a gifted storyteller, but here her efforts are undermined by…
Love To Love You Baby was a frustrating book for me. I loved it for its sports background and its truly likable main characters. It was funny too. But some of the secondary characters caused me to grind my teeth. Yes, I know that humor is subjective, but I didn’t find them very funny and…
A Touch Away is about taking risks, letting go of the past, and overcoming past hurts and disappointments to love again. It’s a good story, but a writing quirk and the occasional inconsistency and immaturity of its characters knocks it down into “C” territory. When Sonji Stevens discovers her lover of two years has a…
Many mysteries have used as their backdrop one of those quaint English villages that seem only to exist on BBCA, PBS, and A&E mini-series. If you are fond of cozy mysteries in quaint villages, you can find one in Sarah Caudwell’s The Sibyl in her Grave London barrister Julia Larwood discovers that her Aunt Regina,…
On the surface Safe Passage has a familiar premise: the undercover agent hero investigating the secretive heroine. The difference is in the details. The story takes place in British Columbia. The hero is a Canadian secret agent. The heroine is a motorcycle-riding entomologist with a dark past. Throw in a good amount of emotion and…
I began to read The Sword Maiden hoping to find a book that rose above the usual Scottish-set historical. If you’re also looking for a fresh take on this oft-used setting, I urge you to give Susan King’s latest a try. Although this is the third in the Maiden trilogy, the books seem to be…
My Dearest Enemy and All Through the Night are two of my keeper books, both by Connie Brockway but very different from each other in style. The Bridal Season is Ms. Brockway’s latest, and although not a keeper for me, it did have characters that I just couldn’t stop reading about. Letty Potts is escaping…
Sugarplum Surprises is exactly the type of book I hope to read when I open a traditional Regency Romance. It has a worthy heroine who is somewhat down on her luck, a noble hero (who is the furthest thing from a cad), a fun Bath setting, period detail (and period mores), an engaging plot that…
The Nightingale’s Song is author Kathleen Eschenburg’s debut book, and as debuts go it is quite encouraging. Taken as a whole, though, it’s no more than average; the pacing is off, especially in the first half of the book, and the hero and heroine engage in some aggravating behavior towards the end. Still, there are…
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