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When it comes to gloms, for sheer numbers my all-time biggest is Jayne Ann Krentz in all her incarnations, including Jayne Castle. I haven’t enjoyed her most recent work as much, however, and I dearly hoped that After Dark would reverse that trend. Sadly, it didn’t. Like Amaryllis, Zinnia, and Orchid, this has a “humans…
When I began reading Not Without You, I got pretty excited. It had a good premise and I was up for a romantic suspense story. However, the further into the book I got, the more my enthusiasm waned. While this is an okay read, that’s about the best I can say for it. Wealthy, ruthless,…
Wishin’ On A Star starts out with potential in its two lead characters. Heroine Shelby Russau is a lonely woman who has lost both her parents and her only brother, and believes herself to be alone in the world. Hero Raphael Blaize is a Grenadian man whose obsession with family in the abstract has led…
Victoria Alexander’s latest, The Husband List, is an enjoyable tale in the tradition of Julia Quinn and other writers of humorous historicals set in the regency period. Fans of her most recent novel, The Wedding Bargain, will want to read this one – the heroine of The Wedding Bargain even makes a brief appearance. Noted…
There are no cowboys or Indians in this Western novel. Rather, the action takes place in the fairly well-settled Colorado town of Paradise, where the frontier is a place of purer morality than the decadent East, rather than a place of lawlessness. This attitude figures closely in the actions of the story. The novel focuses…
Confession time: This is my first Nora Roberts book, and I knew when I began reading that if I didn’t like it, I would receive the wrath of countless Nora fans and, more importantly, my mother. My fears of getting disowned were unfounded. For those who enjoy Law and Order, Sacred Sins is what would…
I found Sizzle All Day, Geralyn Dawson’s new release, to be something of a mixed bag. Dawson has created an engaging couple and some funny scenes, but at times, the humor and the quirky supporting characters felt forced to me. Fortunately, most of the overly precious scenes occur earlier in the book, which improves as…
Despite the beefcake cover and corny back cover blurb, I was impressed with the first quarter of this book. I thought Ms. Lawrence had taken a difficult premise – the hero of a virtual reality video game come to life in a New Jersey store – and made it workable. I was even laughing out…
This sweet-natured book has many good elements, but almost the last and the least of these is romance, despite what the back cover suggests. Deep in the Valley is a dryly humorous slice of contemporary small-town life, an intricate character sketch that incorporates dozens of well-drawn characters, and a fascinating glimpse into the life of…
Althea Ford has survived a horrific childhood that still isn’t over. After killing a young boy in the line of duty, Sheriff Jefferson Hicks lost his job, his wife, and his self-respect. Alexis Harrington’s novel Allie’s Moon is the tender, though at times pulse-pounding, story of how these two broken people help each other heal….
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