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In The Viscount Who Loved Me, the second book in Julia Quinn’s series about the Bridgerton siblings (following The Duke and I), we meet Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sheffield. Anthony has determined at last to marry, but for reasons of his own, he doesn’t want to risk his heart. He sets out to court Kate’s…
The Grand Sophy, Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romance written in 1950, is a witty comedy of manners which will not fail to delight the sainted Georgette’s admirers and might well prove to be a keeper for others as well. Lord Ombersley’s family is in a sad scrape. Due to his financial ineptitude they are forced to…
Alias Mommy is one of those books with a theme that’s been done before. While it’s nothing truly objectionable, it’s also nothing new. Catherine Calvert Elkins is on the run. Alone and pregnant, she has an accident on a desolate road. She’s rescued by Dr. Reeve Snyder and wakes in the hospital. As she heals,…
What would you do if a genie suddenly popped out of your cell phone? Well, if he looked anything like the stern, arms-crossed guy on the cover of Meredith’s Wish I know I’d be dusting off my sneakers and practicing my sprinting skills! But don’t let the picture scare you off, because between the covers…
This was a very hard book for me to judge. The story was less than compelling, the characters failed to engage my sympathy, and there was a huge red herring thrown into the mix. And yet…some of the writing was so well done that it kept me going, and I had to feel sorry it…
When I read Connie Willis’s To Say Nothing of the Dog two years ago, I knew I’d have to read all her other books as well. It’s taken some time, but I finally read the fascinating Doomsday Book, which is every bit as good as TSNOTD, although it is completely different in tone. Doomsday Book…
Katrina’s Wings merges elements of several genres – inspirational romance, women’s fiction, and Southern fiction – without belonging wholly to any of them. While the story took time getting underway, I ultimately found this well-written tale and its unique central character to be very satisfying. At first the story treads well-worn turf: the coming-of-age of…
While I was reading Blind Faith I kept having flashbacks to dumb-but-lovable action TV series like Remington Steele. The plotting in this romantic suspense novel is on about the same goofball level as those shows, but unfortunately without eye candy on the order of Pierce Brosnan and worse, without the wit and knowing self-parody that…
Dangerous Heat is a completely average read. The characters are beautiful people with problems they think are worse than they really are, the plot hits all the standard points and the book reads quickly and easily. Only thing is, after you’ve read it, you can’t really recall that much about it because very little is…
Like many other authors, Catherine Coulter used to be on my must read list, and now falls somewhere just below that list. Sometimes I’ve slowed down on authors because my reading tastes changed and other times it was because the books became too much like their predecessors. I think Catherine Coulter falls somewhere in both…
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