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It is difficult to think of a way to describe Angel Falls that will not turn off readers who hate amnesia stories. This book, technically speaking, is an amnesia story, that is it is a story where one of the main characters, the heroine, gets amnesia. But saying that Angel Falls is an amnesia story…
This is the second consecutive American historical I’ve reviewed, and I could really go for a duke or a billionaire right about now. At first glance, His Forbidden Touch seems to have a lot going for it: a reunion between first loves, a suspenseful subplot, a lady doctor. The execution, however, is an unremarkable, repetitive…
Have you ever dated a guy who’s perfect for you, but the spark isn’t quite there? Then you’ll sympathize with Raven Muldoon, one of four friends who made a bargain to find each other husbands if they weren’t married by their thirtieth birthdays. A mostly enjoyable romp, this is a good start to the series….
The heroine of Once A Rebel by Tammy Hilz plans to steal from the rich and give to the poor. However noble her motives, she’s still a person who takes it upon herself to decide who gets to keep their money and who doesn’t. That’s just one of the problems I had with the book….
The Stolen Years is alternately tedious, gripping, terrible, and quite good. It begins with a main character who’s easy to hate, follows his evolution in the intense middle chapters, but then tapers off into an unsatisfying and forgettable ending. It’s the ambitious – perhaps too ambitious – story of one weak man whose redemption seems…
Always Her Hero is a paint by numbers romance if ever there was one. Not that there isn’t a lot of recycling in romance, or that it can’t work, it just doesn’t here. I felt like I was sleepwalking through the R-Rated non-musical sequel to Oklahoma. The story begins with an incident where Dr Michael…
This book has everything. Too bad this includes just about every tired plot twist and cliché available in romance today. This includes, unfortunately: A reluctant bridegroom determined to not love his wife because of his tragic childhood, who nonetheless lusts madly for her on every other page. Is he tortured or just melodramatic? You be…
I’ve enjoyed Barbara Dawson Smith in the past, particularly Her Secret Affair. However, Romancing the Rogue didn’t quite work for me. While the heroine is interesting and the story had potential, the hero’s continuous lack of trust was a problem. Sure, I expected some distrust on his part because the heroine was a Gypsy, but…
Cleopatra Fraser is the daughter of a respected Egyptian archaeologist, Everett Fraser. Cleo and her father have a partnership: she does all the work, and he gets all the credit. David Evans, nicknamed Angel, was once Everett’s assistant. He seduced Cleo, not realizing (oops) that the beautiful and competent young woman was sixteen and a…
Lady Pirate is one of those books with a little bit of everything: Slapstick humor, blood, revenge, adventure on the high seas, mystery, mistaken identity, cross dressing, and even steamy sex with bondage. What it doesn’t have are characters a reader can connect with, and towards the end the author just seems to be throwing…
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