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Yes, it’s true, it’s all true. In Nora Roberts’ new book, Carolina Moon, the characters are stereotypes, the action is predictable from start to finish, and the murderer’s identity is easy to figure out, especially if you have read a few other of Roberts’ suspense novels (hint: whoever you are set up to suspect, isn’t…
When I heard that the heroine of Against His Will was a dog psychologist, I was afraid she would be one of those ditzy new-age characters whom I do not like at all. This book is by Trish Jensen. Silly me to have worried. Jake Donnelly is an FBI agent. When his beloved Aunt Sophie…
Sometimes you come across a book that has a well-described setting, nice (if sometimes annoying) lead characters, and an interesting plot. Sometimes you read your way through one of these books and forget all about them the moment you finish the last page. This was my experience with The Renegades: Nick; I didn’t hate it,…
Soon-to-be-wedded Maxine Henley arrives at her hometown ready to face the Summer Solstice Bizarre and sure enough, she’s given a ratty “love charm” by Iona the fairy, who tells Maxine to “Wear this close to your heart and when the moon smiles, the right man will find you, guaranteed.” O-kay, Maxine thinks. She’s already engaged,…
The first two books in Evelyn Rogers’ Texas Empires triology followed the adventures of the Harden brothers as they made their way to Texas and glory. In Longhorn, Rogers introduces us to Maddie, the youngest of the Harden siblings and the last remaining family member in New Orleans. Maddie is waiting out the final days…
I was very much looking forward to reading Dark Gold. Not only is it a contemporary romance with a vampire/Carpathian element, but it is also set in San Francisco. In the end, however, the romance didn’t grab me, the lead characters were forgettable, and the setting wasn’t utilized particularly well. Alexandria Houton is about to…
Rogue’s Reform is the third in Marilyn Pappano’s Heartbreak Canyon miniseries. It is not necessary to have read the earlier books in the series, but doing so will add a much greater depth to the characters in this book. I urge you to find the earlier books – Cattleman’s Promise and The Horseman’s Bride they…
A phrase I often hear bandied about in conjunction with Jayne Ann Krentz (in all her guises) is “comfort read.” It couldn’t be more true in this case, with “lite” suspense and an interesting, albeit familiar, storyline. Eclipse Bay has its own version of the Montagues and the Capulets, but thankfully these feuding families now…
Do you remember the first really good medieval romance you read? How it completely captivated you and swept you away to another time and place, how you felt as if you were in the moment? It may have been a Jude Deveraux, or a Julie Garwood, or perhaps it was another author but you get…
Phillipa de Paris is a scholar, and the illegitimate daughter of Baron Gui de Beauvais, who finds herself on the wrong end of a dagger one night after attending a lecture. She’s holding the dagger, mind you, and is pointing it at her opponent, but Hugh of Wexford can only shake his head at the…
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