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I have to give credit to Genesis Publishing for their Red Slipper line featuring Asian and Asian-American characters, and for being willing to tackle various flavors of interracial romance in general. And kudos to Kei Swanson for her portrayal of an Asian man as sexy and desirable – that’s a first in for me in…
Some authors can take the most bizarre, unbelievable scenarios and make them work. When you’re really involved in a story you can actually believe that a kidnapped woman could fall in love with her captor or that someone could walk through a mirror and emerge in another century. You have to be careful with outrageous…
Diane Farr’s first Regency Romance, The Nobody, marked her as a writer to watch in this sub-genre. Her second one, Fair Game only reinforced the impression that she was a writer of rare talent. With this, her third Regency, Falling For Chloe she has surpassed herself. This is as good a traditional Regency Romance as…
Let me preface my remarks by saying that this is the most difficult review I’ve ever written. Mary Jo Putney is not only one of my favorite authors, but one whom I admire for the tough choices she makes in the material she addresses. Having said that, her first contemporary, The Burning Point is not…
For somebody who doesn’t normally pick up time-travel romances on her own, I’ve sure read my share of them since joining AAR. Like any other group of books, it’s been a mixed bag, but I have to say that I had very few problems with Linda O. Johnston’s latest, set in London just before the…
When a baby is born and found dead in the barn of the Amish Fisher family in Paradise, Pennsylvania, 18-year-old Katie Fisher is discovered bleeding. Though she denies not only the birth but the murder of the infant, it seems apparent to one and all that she is either deluded or a liar, the latter…
The Maiden Bride takes place during a sad and frightening period in history. During the fourteenth century, the Black Death ravaged the countryside, decimating the populations of villages, estates and monasteries. Thousands upon thousands of peasants, tradesmen, and crafts people died. Labor was short and in many places there simply were not enough people to…
Sure and it warms the cockles of my Irish-American heart to read a lovely romance set in the green hills of Eire. When the lass involved has a tongue and temper to match the fire of her hair, and the fella’s got to scramble to keep his wits about him long enough to make her…
Although I can’t give it an unqualified recommendation, Night Secrets is an entertaining book. Unfortunately it includes one of my major pet peeves, a heroine who is much, much too young for the hero. As a result, I often squirmed, even as I was whizzing through it. It doesn’t help that the hero takes advantage…
On my desert island I will of course have many books from many genres. There is one detective series I simply must have and that is the Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers. Lord Peter is, hands down, one of my favorite fictional characters ever and one whom his author took through a…
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