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Oh, how I wanted to like this book. I love fantasy novels, and I love romance novels. The intersection between the two genres should produce great books. And just think: a romance novelist working in a fantastic realm doesn’t need to get the historical details straight – so long as they’re consistent and internally logical,…
Even though lack of period feeling in medieval and regency romances sometimes annoys me, I can understand it. Those times and places are far from our present thoughts. The history is not taught in American high schools. The thought processes are foreign, and historical errors are easily overlooked by the reader unless she is a…
The Wolf and the Dove challenges the very boundaries of love and war and proves there lays but a fine line between conquered and conqueror. Norman knight and victor, Wulfgar easily ousts cruel Ragnor and takes authority over Darkenwald and the beauty who possesses a provocative courage. Courage, he believes, that is rarely matched by…
Reading Prairie Song is the mental equivalent of swallowing a whole jug of maple syrup. Maple syrup is great stuff — in small, calculated doses. Masses of it, however, can be overpowering, even make you sick. This book contains too much sentimentality and too many cliches that, taken individually, would have been barely noticeable, perhaps…
I don’t really mind romance novel premises that are a little ancient, so long as they’re freshened up with interesting characters and original twists. I don’t shy away from those heroines with amnesia, those secret pregnancies, or those good and evil twins – but if an author’s going to start with howling clichés like that,…
When I heard that Julie Garwood was writing a contemporary romantic suspense novel, my first thought was “Oh boy,” and a sense of dread at losing one of my favorite authors to the more mainstream/suspense genre. When I finished Heartbreaker, I closed the book, placed it on the table in front of me and thought…
Sometimes I think a book might work better under another format, or another label. A novella might have been better as a longer work, or vice versa, or a romantic suspense that held no real romance for me might be better labeled as straight Fiction. In this case, instead of Contemporary Romance, Lovers and Other…
Midnight Fantasies is at times a very funny book, and a hot one too. The heroine is Elizabeth Carlton, the straight-laced daughter of a Texas gubernatorial candidate. She’s prim on the inside, but her business is anything but stodgy; she provides super-rich clients with sexual fantasy scenarios. She only dreams of partaking in such fantasies…
I always look forward to reading a Western with an Indian hero by an author I have not tried before. You see, I know that somewhere out there lurks a really good Western/Indian romance and it is my mission to find it. Tykota’s Woman was okay but nothing special. The hero and heroine were nice…
There’s nothing quite so awkward as catching yourself laughing at what you know isn’t meant to be funny. And boy, did I feel awkward while reading The Outlaws: Rafe. I just couldn’t help but laugh at many of the ridiculous things the cardboard characters did, or their stilted dialogue, or the incredible plot. It was…
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