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The hero of Always a Princess by Alice Chambers muses, “Lots of words came to mind when he thought of Eve Stanhope, but stupid wasn’t one of them.” Unfortunately, that was not my experience: I frequently found the word “stupid” coming to mind as I read this book. Eve Stanhope lives in a London slum,…
I love Anne Stuart’s books. There are some that I can read over and over again with the greatest pleasure. To Love A Dark Lord, Cinderman, One More Valentine, and Crazy Like A Fox are some of her titles that I have especially enjoyed. Her last book, Shadows At Sunset was a darn good mystery,…
The first time I read Bliss, I was absolutely intoxicated by it. It absorbed me and kept me completely in its power. For a whole two days all I did was eat, sleep, dream, breathe Bliss. I read it over and over, wondering each time that it should so affect me. Because by any measure…
“He has a scar on the back of his neck.” According to the back cover blurb, that’s what Mirabella Whittingham knows about a man she thinks is responsible for the death of her best friend. So what does our intrepid heroine do? She decides to kiss all the men who danced with her friend in…
When I read a long series like the Anita Blake or the J. D. Robb In Death books, I find there will be a few books I re-read once in a while, a couple that I hardly ever go back to, and a couple of books that just knock it out of the park. These…
Indigo Moon has a very promising beginning that sadly devolves into a clichéd and melodramatic ending. Rebeka Randall needs to hire a gunslinger and guide to help break her brother out of prison and escape the town where he’s scheduled to hang the next morning. Unfortunately, she turns to Chase Hawken, who unbeknownst to her…
Untamed was one of those books I just couldn’t put down. I stretched breaks at work, and prolonged my lunch period as much as I dared because I couldn’t bear to stop reading. Whenever that happens, I know I’ve found a keeper. When it happens after eight years of re-reading a book, I know it’s…
I can sum up the theme of Bitter Harvest pretty easily: “Greed is bad and will not go unpunished.” It’s a good moral, but in this case, it’s not delivered with much subtlety or style. Michelle Tyler is living a quiet and happy existence when the book begins. She has her own business and a…
Against the Odds is well-written and even interesting, but ultimately forgettable. In the aftermath of the Civil War, a Southern lady and a Yankee POW find love on board a doomed steamboat. The historical flavor is nice, but the crisis-to-crisis pace is a little monotonous. Gabe Davis is one of a thousand prisoners of war…
I admit it: I’m a curmudgeon when it comes to comedies set in historical time periods. Usually, I just don’t think they’re all that funny. The banter seems stilted and unreal, the situations seem unlikely and contrived. But The Marriage Lesson by Victoria Alexander pleased even me: it is charming. Thomas Effington, Marquess of Helmsley,…
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