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When I read a romance, I’m looking for characters who act like adults, not overgrown, silly, sulky adolescents. Unhappily, the cast in Mistletoe Mischief comes across as teenagers trapped in grownup bodies, and even the addition of a paranormal element couldn’t save it for me. Lady Evangeline Radcliffe has a secret reason for hiring Megan…
If one day I was told I could only have one comfort read, I have no doubt which one I would choose. Elizabeth Bevarly’s A Lawless Man. I love this book – I mean I really, really love this book. For me, it has that indefinable quality called charm. I fell in love with the…
Cotton candy is quite insubstantial, but that doesn’t make it any less sweet. First Comes Love is just about as substantial as cotton candy and every bit as sweet. I was charmed and delighted as could be as I read this book. The plot is a delightful farce, the characters are darling, and I was…
What to do when faced with a former lover you haven’t seen in over a year? Let alone when that lover remains the love of your life and more important, when you haven’t told him there was a child born of your relationship? Tori Carrington’s Just Eight Months Old answers these questions when two former…
Thank goodness for my “Two Book” rule, otherwise I might not have tried Meet Me at Midnight. Although I was disappointed by Taming Rafe, I found Ms. Enoch’s latest effort a very pleasing read. Lady Victoria Fontaine is better known as Vixen, and with good reason. She flaunts her flirtatious behavior in the face of…
Whatever you do, do not judge this book by the cover, because it’s guaranteed to give you pause. It looks like the couple ran into each at Starbucks and started ripping their clothes off. I figure it must have been chosen because the book is set in New York City, where there is a Starbucks…
I must admit that I began reading A Thing of Beauty with a bit of a same-old, same-old feeling. Bluestocking and amateur chemist Belinda Croft is suffering through her cousin Sissy’s society debut when a mysterious man mistakes her for the lover he’s jilting and gives her a goodbye kiss that sets her running. At…
Margaret Esterly is both widowed and impoverished the night her husband’s London house-cum-bookshop burns down. The only things left to her are three volumes of erotic literature called The Journals of Augustin X. When she discovers two years later that her husband had several potential buyers lined up before he died, she thinks she has…
At a glittering ton event, the paths of a man and a woman cross. They are of different classes, but they share a significant moment together in the moonlight. If this sounds familiar to you, you’ve probably read Lisa Kleypas’s Where Dreams Begin. Karen Ranney’s After the Kiss begins exactly this way too, and although…
For most of Anne of Fenwyck’s life she has resided at Artane. And for almost as long, Anne has been in love with Robin of Artane, the eldest son. Robin, for his part is also in love with Anne. When the two are young, Robin falls ill and Anne has an accident that permanently injures…
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