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An unread Dead Until Dark is a smile waiting to happen. This crossover book is appealing on a variety of levels, which makes for a very nice change. Usually, if I have a long list of things I want to point out, they generally have to do with the problems in a book. Not so…
Kat Martin’s Heartless has an interesting premise and intriguing characters. It doesn’t quite live up to its initial promise, but it’s an entertaining read anyway. Ariel Summers is the daughter of a drunken, abusive peasant. At fourteen, she longs to escape her life of poverty and ignorance, so she makes a devil’s bargain with the…
Remember the last episode of Seinfeld? After eight years of getting TV audiences to laugh at the antics of its self-absorbed characters, the show suddenly turned judgmental, condemning the characters for the very behavior the show milked for laughs. Some Kind of Sexy reminded me a lot of that, because it’s just as hypocritical. In…
A Bride for Lord Wickton is the second book in a trilogy. Three aristocrats, ending their stint as officers, are preparing to return to England. They make a side trip to Italy and save an old gypsy woman. She blesses them – or curses them – by telling them that they’ll each find true love…
While this book kept me turning pages, it was more out of curiosity than intense interest. The mystery was intriguing (until it was revealed) and I wanted to see whodunnit, but other than that, Delayed Diagnosis sort of died on the table. Dr. Rhea Lynch has been away. She and her fiancé broke up and…
Kate Fitzleger has been in love with Dr. Val St. Leger since she first laid eyes on him. There’s only one problem: the legend of his family is that any St. Leger who marries someone other than the person chosen for them by a Bride Finder will find tragedy. The current Bride Finder has announced…
Instead of All a Woman Wants, this book would have better been titled All a Woman Needs is a Man to Take Over and Make Everything Better. That title more accurately reflects what the book was truly about. Miss Beatrice Cavendish is in a bind. She has spent all twenty-eight years of her life doing…
A Diamond in the Rough is the only Regency Romance I’ve ever read with a sports theme. In this case, the sport is golf. The heroine is a woman who works as a caddie at St. Andrews golf course; naturally, she is disguised as a young man. The hero is a complete novice who must…
Ain’t No River is a combination of sub-genres that normally would have me striding rapidly in the opposite direction: it’s an African-American inspirational romance. Yet reading this book reinforced my belief that sometimes it can be a rewarding experience to read something outside of my normal boundaries. It’s an engaging story of what happens when…
I wanted to read A Find Through Time because it takes place in and around the Battle of Little Big Horn (also known as Custer’s Last Stand), which sounded like an interesting setting for a time travel romance. Unfortunately, Marianne Petit’s book reads like a rough draft, and not a particularly good one. Gabrielle Camden…
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