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This book was horrible. While no one thing stands out as particularly awful, the book suffered from a pervasive feeling of yuck. Generally speaking, I think it had too many plot devices tied together only by its vapid dialogue and stupid characters. Cairo McKnight and Duncan Kincaid hook up early on when Cairo decides, rather…
In Sixpence Bride, American Jocelyn Tanner participates in a cheesy wife auction as part of her English tour package and ends up traveling back in time to the year 1797. There she finds herself part of a real wife auction, and before she knows it she has been purchased by a nobleman. Garren Warrick would…
There’s a period of mourning that goes along with finishing a Mary Jo Putney book. She’s one of the few authors whom I wish would write longer stories. The China Bride is no exception to this and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The prologue of The China Bride opens with the arrival of a strange Anglo-Asian…
Kendra Jenner is a self-sufficient journalist and single mom living in Far Hills, Wyoming. Her two-year-old son, Matthew, was conceived during a brief encounter with a native of the island of Santa Estella, where she’d taken shelter from a hurricane while investigating the legend of Taumaturgio- a man who daringly risks his life to bring…
Driving Lessons is reminiscent of Jan Karon’s Mitford series. It’s about a small town where most of the residents know each other, no one is overtly mean, and there’s a great sense of community. Most of all, there are lessons to be learned. Charlene Darnell’s husband, Joey, calls one evening and tells her he will…
Marie Anne Montford, a.k.a. Mary Chilton, is one of three aristocratic English children who were orphaned by the French Revolution. In England it was believed that the children all died, but the youngest (Alexandra) returned in Candace Camp’s 1999 release, Stolen Heart. Marianne, as she now calls herself, has no memory of her life before…
Occasionally I’ll read a book with passages so bizarre or poorly written that I’ll mark them with Post-Its. More rare are those books with passages so beautiful that I’ll mark them with Post-Its. The Wishing Garden is such a book, and yet, it took a comment from one of my fellow reviewers here at AAR…
The pairing of the rock star and the sexy actress is well-known to most of us; in Consuelo Vasquez’s Leading Lady we catch a glimpse of a similar couple, but one who is struggling to make it to the big time. Mercedes Romero wants her big break. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s going to…
Confession time: once upon a time, as a starving grad student, I was a phone ‘ho. Or, as I put on my taxes that year, “fantasy consultant.” So I was immediately interested when I heard the premise of M.J. Rose’s Lip Service – a writer undertakes phone sex for research purposes and ends up on…
When Patricia Gaffney moved from writing historical romance last year into hardcover women’s fiction, many of her fans bemoaned the loss of another terrific romance author into the mainstream. While I’m one of those readers who doesn’t like to lose a romance writer to straight suspense or romantic suspense, I enjoy women’s fiction and looked…
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