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There is some good buried deep within At the Heart’s Command. But it’s not worth digging through a cliched plot, unrealistic situations and a ghost story that never really pans out to find it. The story’s basics show promise – there’s a gem buried within. Col. John Griffin Junior, affectionately known as Grif, comes home…
Mothers will do anything to protect their children, and this instinct is at the heart of The Countess. Eglantine de Crevy, married and widowed twice, has responsibility for three girls. There’s her stepdaughter Alienor, her daughter Jacqueline (both from her first marriage), and from her second marriage is baby Esmeraude, distraught and inconsolable now that…
In Diamonds and Desire, Constance Laux’s latest novel set during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, a titled jewel thief meets his match in a spunky tabloid reporter. Aggie O’Day and her brother were left without funds, so the pretty redhead got a job as a reporter with a scurrilous rag called the London Daily Enquirer and…
I became very angry as I was reading this book. Angry that I was wasting my time, angry that these characters were so stupid, and above all angry that a well-known author could write such a silly, derivative and cliched book. The best thing about Skye is that it is short. Skye is the third…
If you’ve been searching for a humorous read, this is one you might want to try. Whirlwind Wedding starts out with some funny scenes and great dialogue. Toward the end of the book a lame argument spoils the fun temporarily, but overall this is an enjoyable read. When Austin Jamison, Duke of Bradford, slips out…
This book isn’t a romance, but it’s one of my all-time favorites and will likely be fascinating for history lovers and for fans of historical romance and straight historical fiction a la Dorothy Dunnett. David Hilliam presents a concise history of all the kings and queens of England, their spouses, their legitimate and illegitimate children,…
You know those MC Escher prints with the flocks of birds? In one direction you see black birds and then your focus shifts and you see that the white spaces between them are also birds? Well, imagine that the black birds are carrying all the action highlights of a story – daring rescues, climactic battles,…
This book should come with a warning label: Book is better than it sounds: Shadows at Sunset has cute in-love ghosts, childish adult millionaire’s children and Hollywood. My initial reaction was …not good. Am I the only one surprised to read funny ghosts in an Anne Stuart novel? But in spite of this, or perhaps…
A Still Small Voice is literary fiction, and I have been known to enjoy the occasional literary novel. It’s kind of like adding a little broccoli to the diet, but reading this novel is more like eating boiled cabbage. When I open any book, I expect two things: a good story and characters that make…
I found A Perfect Love to be a difficult book to grade. The book’s time-travel and reincarnation aspects were quite well done. On the other hand, I felt a certain distance from the characters and their actions that was hard to ignore; distance and romance do not make for a good match. In the present…
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