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Ever since Linda Howard introduced Chance Mackenzie, readers have been been demanding his story. I work part time at Waldenbooks where one thing I do is set out the series romances. I knew that this book would be a big seller when customers lined up and grabbed it off the shelf as fast as I…
I don’t require pinpoint historical accuracy, but I have a hard time getting into a book if people keep doing and saying things that are completely out of character for a period. A 15th-century legendary Robin Hood-like figure with a 1930s radio serial name like the Midnight Shadow? A heroine named Bria, a future noblewoman,…
I’ve sometimes wished that books would go on just a little bit longer, but in the case of Everything In Its Time I wish it had ended about twenty pages sooner. Up until then, this had been an engrossing time travel story and I was having a very good time with it, but the drawn…
Whether you like Come Together will come down in large part to how much you like books like Bridget Jones’ Diary and Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married. Like these books, Come Together features the trials and tribulations of modern-day London singletons trying to find their way toward couplehood, told in the first person with frequently…
You know how everybody’s always complaining about the sameness of settings in the books we read? The main reason I decided to read In the Shadow of the Green Line was because it takes place on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus (with nary a Greek tycoon in sight, forsooth). Unfortunately, the book turned out to…
How much fun is Truly, Madly Viking? Well, it took me longer than usual to finish this book because my roommate kept stealing it. This time-travel is laugh-out-loud funny, with charming characters to boot. Though it is very campy, it should appeal to the romance reader looking for a good time. Hunky tenth-century Viking Jorulf…
Sandra Hill’s 1998 release The Last Viking was one of the funniest books I have read in a long time. Truly, Madly Viking is just as funny and, unlike that earlier title, which featured a rather annoying heroine, this one has loveable characters all around. I really enjoyed it. It is 998 A.D. Jorund Ericsson…
Let’s say you’re wholesome all American Cathlynn O’Connell, going to an antiques auction in a spooky old abbey in New Hampshire. A piece of Irish glass comes up for sale, one that you love, one that your grandma used to own, one that can’t live without. After the bidding is over (you lost) you run…
“You must lose something you can’t afford to lose, trust someone you have no reason to trust, and love someone with no hope of him ever loving you in return.” These are the words that eerily greet Cassie Bowen as she enters her Aunt Flora’s home in Lyman’s Gap, Pennsylvania. Quite an auspicious beginning and…
When I read the raves about The Verificationist earlier this year, I bought a copy for myself and set it aside for a time when I needed a really great read to pull me out of the doldrums. This past weekend I decided I needed a boost and read it. Expecting both an odd read…
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