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Catch a Dream by Mary Jane Meier features a heroine, Meg, who breaks up with her fiancé (who also happens to be her boss) while on a camping trip to Yellowstone. Only after he’s gone does she realize that her purse is still in his car. Now she has no man, no job, no money,…
One day I was in the bookstore staring at the shelf containing the JD Robb books. It’s almost as though, if I stood there long enough and stared hard enough, an Eve and Roarke adventure I hadn’t read would magically appear. No such luck. Fortunately, there was a series of books next to them with…
If you want to make homemade jelly, it takes something more than fruit and sugar. If you don’t have pectin, it won’t jell. The Carriage House lacked pectin. It had some good elements – the setting and two mysteries past and present, but the characters never engaged my sympathy and the story was muddled –…
This book reminded me of a song in the musical A Chorus Line: “Dance Ten, Looks Three.” The story was terrific, but the writing just didn’t cut it. Too elaborate, too long-winded, and I couldn’t even skim it because the writer has the habit of hiding important information in the middle of densely-packed paragraphs that…
Air Force Captain Joanna West is flying the Secretary of a State and her Secret Service detail to a speech when she witnesses a bad car accident. Despite protestations from the head of the detail, she decides she can’t not help and touches down. She has no idea that when she pulls Alexander Taylor from…
I was hoping to read and review A Candle In The Window before Christmas-time because the “holiday spirit” literally permeates the book. Unfortunately, putting the book down after the riveting and emotional first few chapters was far too easy, and it took me over three weeks to finish this sometimes heart-tugging but all too often…
The Merry Widow reminded me of a vaudeville act, a dozen plates kept spinning magically in the air when by rights, every one should crash and shatter on the ground. Again and again, I found myself thinking “This shouldn’t work, but it does.” A Greek chorus of Arctic explorers? Flowery, purplish prose? A hero who…
Fortune’s Bride isn’t all that bad, really. It has a certain exuberant energy that (barely) saves it from a full-on D grade. Unfortunately, almost everything else about it – plot, characterization, dialogue – is trite, occasionally bordering on childish. As I read this book, I kept feeling that I wasn’t reading a real romance novel,…
Had I Waxed My Legs for This? ended at the halfway mark, the grade would have been higher. It got off to an absolutely delightful start, rattled along nicely for a while, and then from out of nowhere took a sucker-punch to the plotline that sent it reeling, never to fully recover. The set-up, like…
In Making Mr. Right, we are introduced to Jaycee Richmond, who has worked for eleven years in the family image-consulting firm, and is still just a glorified secretary, thanks to her family’s sexist beliefs. She sees a chance to make a change when Simon Hawthorne comes in needing an image adjustment. Simon is a traditional,…
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