all book related reviews
In Fidelity was an intriguing and powerful reading experience which somehow managed to touch me deeply. I have difficulty analyzing what exactly had the most effect, even though I could not put the book down the whole night through. It’s a compelling tale about human emotions and the possibility or impossibility of change. The narrator,…
Gayle Wilson is a RITA winner for her contemporary romantic suspense novels for Harlequin’s Intrigue line, but if you really want to see her talent shine I recommend picking up one of her historicals. A good place to start is her most recent offering, Anne’s Perfect Husband, second in the Sinclair Brides trilogy. Major Ian…
“But she loved Gage to the point of foolishness and beyond.”You know a book is in trouble when you agree with the heroine on this point. Try as I may, Meriel summarized Firestar more aptly than I ever could. Now, if she only had drawn the obvious conclusions from that realization, this book would have…
Tom Brokaw’s bestseller The Greatest Generation made a lot of people nostalgic for the WWII era. Certainly, Brokaw’s book didn’t sugar-coat things, but people’s memories do. The problem with nostalgia is that we only tend to dwell on the heroic, adventurous aspects of a time, and forget about the day-to-day struggles that were going on…
If you’ve ever read a Regency Romance or an historical romance set in the regency period, it’s very likely you’ve run into George, the Prince Regent, more commonly known as Prinny. He was an interesting character who is most often portrayed in novels as a caricature of himself: the corpulent, lascivious spendthrift who’s also quite…
Bad cover art and an unknown publisher made me hesitant to read this book, but I was pleasantly surprised. Though it meanders near the end, Laurie Breton has written a story that involves the reader in the story of a woman who faces love and adversity, finding herself in the process. Songwriter Casey Bradley meets…
It looks like I’m going to be in the minority when it comes to this installment of Susan Wiggs’ Chicago Fire trilogy. While the heroine is an interesting and different character, I had a hard time connecting with her or the love story. On the night of the terrible Chicago Fire, suffragist Lucy Hathaway has…
Why I’m Obsessed with Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter I’ve heard confession is good for the soul so, in the interests of soul improvement, I’ll confess that I’m afraid of the dark and the things that might go bump in it. You know, ghoulies and ghosties and long legged beasties? Intellectually, I know there are no…
By all counts, Taming the Beast ought not to work at all. It is improbable in a high degree; Laura does not even see Richard’s face until page 143 since he spends most of his time skulking around in the dark and shadows sharing long talks and deep kisses with her. But such is the…
Warrior’s Bride has a promising set-up (even if it is of the dreaded secret-baby variety), but because of the many emotions that the main characters go through, there was a need for subtlety in the writing. Unfortunately, that subtlety was nowhere to be found. Katarina (Rini) Herelius has ended a bad relationship and her self-esteem…
End of content
End of content