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It wasn’t hard to picture Kelly’s Pub in Boston and the family that surrounds it, which is portrayed in the latest by Graham. Perhaps I’ve been watching too many old episodes of Ryan’s Hope on SoapNet, but the place and people fell into place pretty easily. What didn’t gel as well were the plot and…
Barbara Dawson Smith’s latest release, Tempt Me Twice, offers excellent characters in a solid plot with a believable and enjoyable love story. Only a few minor details kept this from being a keeper for me, and as it is, I’ve definitely found a new author to glom. Kate Talisford threw herself at Lord Gabriel Kenyon…
Let me quote from the back cover blurb… “Renowned for her sensual writing, Candace Schuler defines hot in this sizzling encounter between a tantalizing free spirit called Zoe Moon and the very proper, very controlled grandson of her mentor. Reed Sullivan doesn’t know what’s hit him when Zoe and his grandmother combine forces to loosen…
Something strange and unexpected happened about two thirds of the way through this book. It started to get interesting. This was a direct contrast to the seemingly never-ending tediousness of the first section and took me by surprise. But it still wasn’t enough to save the plot that had dragged out two hundred pages into…
My local bookstore owner recommended that I try Beverly Jenkins, so when I got the chance to review her latest book, Before the Dawn, I took it. And while I did the find the historical and ethnic angles in this book to be interesting, I also thought it had some problems that kept it from…
Surrender had a very pleasant hero and heroine. If it had stuck with their story, I would have enjoyed it very much, but too many secondary characters and a couple of really silly scenes made it a bit of a chore to get through. Netherland Brooms owns a successful restaurant and has many friends. She…
If there’s a novelist whose hand with plot, character, dialogue, prose, sensuality, historical detail, humor, and emotion is very near perfect, I’d say without a qualm that it’s Diana Gabaldon. Several books after the incomparable Outlander – the one that started it all – she can still produce a 1,000-page tome without losing the sheer…
Miles Vorkosigan is an adventurer and a spy, a slightly crazy con artist, a quick-thinker and a fast-talker. He is a military genius with a gift for personnel and a miraculous talent for pulling rabbits out of hats at the last possible moment. His personality is so compelling that it almost makes people forget that…
I liked the heroine of The Wedding Wager, even though she acted like an idiot 90 percent of the time. Cathy Maxwell must be a good writer. The first thing Mary Gates does in this novel is buy a stallion at auction for a thousand pounds. The only problem is that she doesn’t have a…
Velda Sherrod’s Lord Of The Plains contains a little bit of originality in plot, but hardly enough to overcome its problems of unsympathic characters, clichéd and condescending attitudes toward American Indians, and painfully poor dialogue. Kate Hartland is a saloon singer whose only goal is to earn money to send back to her sister Maureen…
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