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The idea that a person may, with every full moon, abandon every last vestige of civilization and humanity and become a wolf is an idea that has fascinated people for centuries, and if well used, can add a wonderfully dark, doomed tone to a romance. Here, in The Wolf of Haskell Hall, the werewolf myth…
Good news: Dead End is written to appeal to readers in several genres. It could easily be classified as mystery, women’s fiction, or romantic suspense and has a little of something for any of those genres. Bad news: Those little bits of something add up to a rather lengthy book that occasionally loses track of…
This book needed powerful magic to save the plot from the stiff characters but sadly, none was forthcoming. If you like lying, helpless and brainless heroines, this might be the book for you, otherwise, I suggest you skip it and re-read Outlander. Our heroine, Megan, is thrown back in time when she is hit by…
Part of me is always afraid to reread an old favorite, especially if I originally read it in my pre-reviewing days. What if it doesn’t measure up? What if it’s not as good as I remembered? With Paradise, I needn’t have worried. I started it during a week when I had about a million other…
When I came back to romance in the early ’90’s, finding a good read was something of a hit-or-miss proposition for me. Back then, there was nothing like this site to help me find a well-written romance, so I spent a lot of time in used-book stores, picking up anything that looked remotely interesting. Needless…
On his way to fight in the Crusades, fifteen-year-old squire Royce de Warrene finds a young girl hiding after the brutal murder of everyone on a French estate. Calling herself Ana and saying nothing more, Royce assumes she’s the peasant daughter of the miller slain nearby. He therefore gives her over to the care of…
South of Sanity is a sequel to East of Peculiar, and though I’d rate East a little higher than my fellow reviewer did (probably a B), I liked South even more. While Ms. Ledbetter’s humor is not as raucous, this one will appeal to fans of Stephanie Plum or Linda Howard’s Mr. Perfect. The opening…
Unlike Night Shield, which is a Desert Isle Keeper for me, every once in a while Nora Roberts writes a book that I forget the minute I finish the last page. Considering Kate is just such a book. There’s nothing wrong with the writing or the plotting, there’s just nothing memorable in any of it….
I predict Nobody’s Angel could join a list of books (if there is such a list) that includes titles that readers either loved or hated, with me tending toward the latter. Books like Sarah’s Child or authors like Dara Joy. However you feel about them, you feel it strongly. Patricia Rice’s latest will most likely…
I’d never read a book by Fern Michaels, so I was glad when I got the opportunity to review Plain Jane. Unfortunately, this book fails at practically every level – it has overly cute dogs, an unlikable heroine and a hero who defies description. Twelve years after Connie Bryan, the popular Homecoming Queen at LSU,…
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