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Genuine suspense is hard to find in fiction these days, which is why I was so impressed by Andrea Kane’s Run For Your Life. It’s a well-written, beautifully paced thriller with a surprising outcome. Since the Grisham well seems to have run dry, I think this would make an excellent movie. Victoria Kensington, a successful…
Katherine Sutcliffe’s new Victorian romance, Notorious, has a troubled hero, a feisty heroine, and lots of derring-do on the high seas. It should appeal to those who miss the “old style” of romance discussed this fall at AAR. Lord Jason Batson is one of the top agents in the British secret service known as Cobra….
Ooh-la-la, what a treat this book is! I have admired Barbara Samuel’s writing, and Night of Fire, the sequel to The Black Angel, merely cements my admiration. A lush setting, strong characters, an impossible love – if it weren’t for a slight falter at the end, this one would go in the box I’m taking…
Like the movie Soul Food, Sheer Necessity follows three African-American sisters and their family as they deal with problems in their lives. The book does so ably, but lacks some of the soul that characterized the movie (as written and directed by George Tillman Jr). The center of the book is supposed to be Toni…
No matter how innocent the lie, it will come back to haunt you. Carson Fairfax finds out the hard way. Upon hearing that his mother, the Countess of Atwick, is near death, Denver businessman Carson gets the bright idea to send her a telegraph saying he is engaged. When his mother regains her health, instead…
What do you do when a romance has almost every element you need, but one? You gnash your teeth and hope for more in the next one. Border Storm takes up the story of the Scottish Borders at the end of the 1500’s. It follows the author’s earlier Border Fire. Laurie Halliott is the daughter…
A book which begins with the hero having a hideous hangover, horrified over finding a seventeen-year-old stranger in his bed, might turn out to be too disgustingly realistic for some readers’ tastes, but I was hooked from the start. Reading Lisa Jewell’s thirtynothing was a refreshing experience after too many purplish historical romances in a…
Blythe: Few people who knew me in high school would have guessed how much I loved Pride and Prejudice. The image I cultivated was more sarcastic and smart alecky than romantic, and I definitely preferred jeans to prom dresses. But deep inside I was really a closet romantic who knew every word of Mr. Darcy’s…
A famous, wealthy, fabulously attractive, professional football star driving down the road in his Aston Martin sees a sweaty woman marching down the side of the road in a beaver costume and decides to give her a ride. Attractive scenario – huh? It hardly inspired me to continue but this is, after all, Susan Elizabeth…
If an author has done her job, I will be swept away into another world and introduced to people I would like to know in real life, and when I leave this fictional world I will have been moved in some way. With The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn has most definitely done her…
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