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Tamsin Harte put me into a reading trance, but not a good one. I found myself reading along until I was jolted out of my reverie only to find that pages had past and not much had happened. The time period for Tamsin Harte is very, very hard to pin down. It takes place in…
Picture Perfect has a serious issue at the center of its plot: the sickle cell anemia disease that afflicts far too many African Americans. The central question at the center of this book is, should a young woman in love push aside a chance at happiness because of the disease? Photographer Cassidy Adams leaves Mobile,…
Warning – Follow the Stars Home is not a two-hanky read. It’s not even a three-hanky read. Just for fun, I counted the number of Kleenex I went through during the book and came up with the grand total of 17. The Kimberly Clark Company should be thanking me by now. This is a book…
When a reader opens a history textbook, it is expected to be rather flat and unemotional. I expect more from a historical novel. This book was packed full of interesting historical facts and detail, but the delivery left much to be desired. I learned some new things, but did not enjoy myself along the way….
After a hellish marriage that ended three years earlier, Leone Weathers has come into her own as the owner of Soul to Soul, a successful jazz nightclub. Her teenage daughter, Raven, has weathered the divorce and is doing well despite her absentee father. Cole Fleming, Leone’s bandleader and club manager, has filled those shoes admirably…
The Waterfall is a fun book. It’s well-written, the characters are believable and fairly well fleshed-out, the plot is interesting. But when I closed the book, I just couldn’t muster up much enthusiasm for it. After some thought, I think I’ve figured out my problem with the story: as a suspense story it’s okay, but…
There’s nothing actually wrong with Bridget, the first novel in Linda Lael Miller’s new series, The Women of Primrose Creek. I can’t pinpoint any specific plot contrivance or writing flaw; it just seems unfinished. At just under one hundred and fifty pages, Bridget reads like the summary of an idea for a novel, one that…
I’ve read some of Kasey Michaels’ Silhouette romances in the past, and while they were nice enough, they weren’t especially memorable. Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You is one I’ll definitely remember – it was utterly charming. Rich heiress Shelby Taite is bored with her life. She’s tired of her limited world and she’s…
Maybe it was the build-up. I know all of Jo Beverley’s fans have been breathlessly waiting for Rothgar. I can’t think of another book in the last few years whose arrival has been so eagerly anticipated. But while I enjoyed many aspects of Devilish, I’ve got to confess that it left me just a little…
A Precious Jewel is a most unusual Regency Romance. Indeed, it is one of the most remarkable romance novels I have ever read, Regency or otherwise. The hero is not heroic by most standards. The heroine is a prostitute. My goodness, one asks, what happened to the refined comedy of manners? Where are the rakes…
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