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It took me awhile to drum up some interest in this book. Just as I was ready to dismiss this book altogether, it got interesting. Unfortunately, it didn’t stay that way. The basic plot of The Lawman’s Surrender is interesting enough, but the main characters are a little shallow. Susannah Calhoun met U.S. Marshal Jedidiah…
Very Truly Yours is a pleasant book. The setting in a small village is very well done – for me it was a pleasure to get out of London. The characters were engaging, both the primary and secondary, and if the mystery was rather transparent – well, I didn’t mind too much. Jack Fairchild is…
I discovered Kathleen Gilles Seidel as a result of perusing the If You Like… page, and have been steadily glomming her books ever since. I have yet to find one that I don’t like. Mirrors and Mistakes is an early title for the Harlequin American Romance line (#57), and is likely more than a little…
Do you ever watch those A&E/Masterpiece Theater period dramas? The ones where there is lots of intrigue and action behind those fabulous costumes, and even if it’s not Pride & Prejudice or The Buccaneers, it’s still entertaining. That’s what The Riddle of the Shipwrecked Spinster was like for me. Not quite Austen, but still a…
Although I can’t quite recommend The Holding, I look forward to checking back on Claudia Dain in a book or two – however long it takes for her to hit on a combination that plays to her considerable strengths as a writer while mitigating the few striking flaws that this book never quite overcame. For…
I really enjoyed the last Barbara Hazard book I read, The Scottish Legacy, but unfortunately I found this one terribly disappointing. While the author takes some risks with unusual characters, none of them pay off. There is little romance here, and a last minute separation between the hero and heroine takes the book from merely…
Although I’ve been hearing about Elizabeth Bevarly for years now, this is the first time I’ve gotten around to trying one of her books. I found it to be the perfect example of a mixed bag. The biggest distraction for me was the prose style, but the hit-and-miss humor also made the book an uneven…
After having read The Scarletti Curse, the question comes to mind once again, why do writers write, and why do readers read historicals? What is the difference between a story set in centuries past as opposed to modern times if not to emphasize some aspect of history? Do the rules change in an historical novel?…
As a romance, this book fails totally. The hero is absent from most scenes and his relationship with the heroine is almost an afterthought. The publishers have labeled Shaker Run a Romantic Suspense, but the suspense was in wondering when I might accidentally run across some romance. It’s not that I’ve got to have a…
The good news first. A Dangerous Love is a fast-paced contemporary romantic suspense with an entertaining, light tone. The frantic chase in the beginning really grabbed my attention, and I was sure I was in for a good read. The heroine started out interesting, the dialogue was often witty or funny, and her family is…
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