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I don’t know about you, but I’ve read way too many contemporary romances featuring virginal or sexually-unawakened heroines in their 30s. I’ve also read too many romances that either ignore race entirely or try to present all possible sides of the issue, robbing it of its power. Donna Hill has written a romance about sexually…
First, I must mention the cover on this book. Truly wonderful, and definitely set the tone for the story. In my jaded mind, I wondered if it had such a great cover because the spine was marked “Fiction,” even though this is clearly a romance. I enjoyed this book until near the end when the…
As I read the description for this book, I was reminded of The Sergeant Major’s Daughter by Sheila Walsh. Walsh’s book was a favorite of mine for a long while because of the strength and empathy the heroine embodied. I had high hopes that Miss Winthrop, a heroine set on following the army into Spain,…
Jordan’s Heart tells the story of a Boston scholar who loves a Colorado rancher. The most unexpected thing about it is the fact that Jordan is the name of the heroine, not the hero. Jordan Alcott has striven her entire life to win her archaeologist father’s approval, by following in his footsteps, attaining a college…
The best thing about this book is the title – it does so much of the summarizing for me. The heroine is a virgin, the hero is vengeful. Got it? Review over. That was easy. The title actually refers to a book written by a deceased relative of the hero, but it applies to the…
I’ve never been to Ireland, so I’m no expert, but I doubt that Irish people speak and think like passages out of a book of folklore. And that’s where the problem with Irish Moonlight lies: it paints all Irish people as folksy and whimsical and all Americans as uptight and materialistic. While the loving descriptions…
Cornelia Lord is a wealthy debutante, a modern fairytale princess locked in an ivory tower of family expectations. Kevin is a struggling art student and a doorman out of necessity, the contemporary equivalent of the princess’s humble shepherd loverboy. What could they possibly have in common? And how could they ever fall in love when…
I loved the central conflict in this book: the hero and heroine, who once loved each other deeply, have now come to hate each other just as deeply, and not because of any big misunderstandings. She was a Southern Belle and he was a Union spy. The met, fell in love, and got married in…
I just know everyone is going to like this book more than I did. It’s cute, inventive, fun, and humorous – with a great New York setting. It’s not a romance, but the plot is something of a Cinderella story about a doorman who falls in love with a wealthy socialite. While I was confident…
Unpolished writing and implausible plot lines combine to make On Thin Ice a mediocre, not-very-suspenseful story when it had the potential to be more. It was particularly disappointing because I had enjoyed the author’s earlier The Ripple Effect quite a bit. Ellie Kramer, or Ellie Crandall as she was born, works in the Boulder District…
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