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Like its predecessors, The Reluctant Smuggler is a different sort of Regency Romance, in that it takes place in a quieter location than the usual London settings. It also has a hero and heroine who don’t so much fall in love as sort of “back into” each other, as each pursue what they believe is…
There is something about adolescence, those teenage years, that marks you and leaves its brand for life. It’s a time of an enormous breadth of feeling; breathless excitement, staggering humiliation, quivering expectancy. When you’re in it, it absorbs you, and when you’re past it, you never quite forget. Beverly Cleary paints a vivid portrait of…
You can’t tell it by my bookshelves, but once upon a time I was wary of trying new-to-me authors. When I started reading romances back in ’93 there were three authors I read, and that was it: Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, and Sandra Brown. Needless to say in three years I’d pretty much worked my…
The romance between a Scottish warrior and an English lady can always make for intriguing storytelling. There is just so much possibility for external and internal conflict and at times the history can overwhelm the characters, if they’re not that well delineated. Unfortunately, this is what happens with the hero and heroine in Seize the…
Do you remember when you were in a long-term relationship and thought it was time to get married? Did you go after your guy with games and manipulation when he didn’t come through? If so, then you will totally identify with the heroine of this novel. If you’ve never gone that route and it doesn’t…
Our mystery Pandora for February is the much anticipated The Defiant Hero by Suzanne Brockmann. When Meg Moore’s daughter and grandmother are kidnapped by terrorists, Meg is forced to kidnap a terrorist from a rival group. Navy SEAL John Nilsson is called in to help. He and Meg have met before, when she was married…
I wanted to give this book a grade of A. Not just for what a good story it is, nor for how well written, nor for how thought-provoking it is, but for how it made me feel, you know, in my heart. But what stopped me was that, as good as it is, The Messenger…
Dr. Onika Hamilton is in desperate need of a vacation when she travels to New Jersey to visit her best friend, Kim. Niki, as she’s called, is a pediatrician who has lost her third patient in six months. She is frustrated and burnt out because she feels she could’ve saved these children if her hands…
If, like me, you’ve got a weakness for a man in uniform, Suzanne Brockmann’s latest single-title release The Defiant Hero should hit the mark for you. It’s chock-full of all the things she does so well: intricately woven multiple plotlines, ripping dialogue, intrigue, adventure, and three (count ’em, three!) love stories, past, present, and (I…
Bewitched worked for me – for the first two chapters. Sympathetic hero, dark and mysterious setting, deep secrets from the past. Once the heroine made her entrance, however, everything changed – and not for the better. Instead of a potentially pleasant story about a man learning to stare his demons in the face and a…
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