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I picked up a copy of Good in Bed as a result of a discussion I was in about Brit Chick Lit. This book is not British, but in many other ways, it does fall into the same sub-genre. The heroine is young, urban, professional, single, and somewhat neurotic. She’s also quite funny and rather…
Lately the only series romances I pick up are by authors who are known to me, and those are getting to be pretty few and far between. I gave up on new authors around the time when all the baby, cowboy, virgin books started to dominate the field. So I was actually looking forward to…
One of the features the characters in Whispers on the Wind have is the ability to mind-meld (no, they’re not Vulcans). I have to tell you, though, that by the time I finished the book, my mind felt more melted than melded. Trying to figure out when it took place and just what the characters…
The Protector begins during a chaotic time in Brittany, when the country was trying to maintain its independence in the midst of a civil war. Two factions warred for control. One faction was led by Jean Comte de Montfort, half brother of the Duke who controlled the country. The other contender was Jeanne de Penthievre,…
I found myself smiling throughout this book. The characters and their interactions were like a breath of fresh air after the dull books I’ve read recently. Though I haven’t read the first two books in this series, if they are anything like this one, I can’t wait to get my hands on them. Greydon Brakenridge,…
In the first book of the Braceridge series, the victim died by spontaneously combusting. It’s a method that immediately piqued the reader’s interest, which was further held by a well-written plot. In this, the fourth in the series, the murder method isn’t nearly as intriguing and sadly, neither is the plot. The time is 1766…
Barbara Hambly’s first mystery set in antebellum New Orleans, A Free Man of Color, has a prominent place on my keeper shelf. Though I haven’t read the intervening several books in the series I was eager to review the latest installment, Die Upon a Kiss. Benjamin January is an accomplished physician and a virtuoso musician….
The entire length of this book I just wanted to shake some sense into the heroine, Lydia Seaton. She’s not exactly too stupid to live, but she keeps creating mountains out of molehills so she doesn’t have to tell the hero the real reason she doesn’t want to commit to their relationship. Lydia and her…
Though her family expected her to retire into a genteel spinsterhood, Amanda Briars has instead created a new life for herself as one of the most popular novelists in bustling London. But while a content Amanda cherishes her independence, she’s still curious enough about the ways of love to buy herself an unusual thirtieth birthday…
I discovered Suzanne Brockmann last year with Get Lucky, and after spending much of last year catching up on the other books and the series, I was eagerly anticipating this one. I wasn’t disappointed. It has all the Brockmann trademarks readers have come to expect – a fun romance, action, humor, and of course, a…
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