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The Biological Bond is the story of Rebecca Martinson who meets the daughter she gave away for adoption when the girl develops aplastic anemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. This could have been a very interesting plot, but it ended up anemic instead. Sam Winslow and his wife had adopted a baby in the…
Ordinarily, action-packed books (or movies for that matter) just aren’t my thing. Shoot-em-ups, hijackings, SEALS and the like seldom sustain my attention for any length of time. My husband will never understand my desire to read a romantic comedy while he has the latest action/adventure/suspense flick blaring. So why did I choose to review Suzanne…
Being a sometime fan of the Temptation Blaze sub-series, I was eager to try the new longer-and-reportedly-hotter Blaze books, and jumped at the chance to review Janelle Denison’s first entry in the new line. I had my doubts about them being “hotter,” though, because I never thought the Blaze Temptations were any wilder than the…
Inventing Savannah, the first collaboration by Susan Shapiro Barash and Joanne Lara, contains hints of a story that could have been entertaining and even deeply moving, had it not been for extremely poor writing, a complete lack of subtly, consistency, or likable characters, and a spattering of elements that never fit in, as if the…
Labeled as a romantic suspense, Darkling I Listen lives up to its billing – and more. Oh, baby! Brandon Carlyle is the sexiest, most tormented hero I have read in several years. As a beautiful young boy, he was taken to Hollywood by Cara, Stage-Mother-From-Hell, and has been betrayed by nearly everyone he’s ever known….
There are worse things for a book to be besides spectacularly boring, but when you’re reading a spectacularly boring book it’s hard to think of anything that’s worse. Here and Now is boring. Mind-numbingly boring. Rather watch paint dry boring. You’d think it would be entertaining. The hero, Charles Garrity, is catapulted forward in time…
The Wager is one of those books that rides the fine line between romance and potboiler. Had the book been heavily edited to remove all the repetitious self-talk by the heroine about how her mother had lied to her and how her whole life was a lie and how could they all have lied to…
Books such as The Bad Man’s Bride are the reason I continue reading romance novels. I don’t know why, but it seems true keepers are harder and harder to come by these days. The hero won my heart, totally and completely. Gabriel Jackson is larger than life and acts in truly heroic ways. Gabe is…
One brief foray into The Wild Side is enough for me. With its annoying heroine, mean hero and clinical sex scenes, Harlequin Blaze No. 11 is not the book you should pick up if you’re intrigued by all the hype about this new line of “romantica” (or romantic erotica). Built on the premise that the…
Mercy introduces Theo Buchanan, brother of Heartbreaker Nick, and Dr. Michelle (Mike) Renard, who meet when Theo throws up all over Dr. Mike’s shoes! Dr. Mike has become the target of a mysterious vandal and Theo uses his Justice Deptartment connections to try to unravel the mystery surrounding Michelle before they are both killed. Linda: Julie…
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