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Border Heat had the potential to be a good and quick read – until the subplots started fighting for attention. Unfortunately, the upshot is that the heroine’s most important goals are forgotten in the middle of a subplot involving the hero’s involvement Mexican politics. Texas native Leticia Rodriguez has two main goals – to save…
Bittersweet is a middle-aged melodrama that’s about one-third too long. Not that it would have been much better without the additional 100+ pages, but Danielle Steel’s continual repetition of thoughts and actions becomes impossibly frustrating in a book of this length. While the author has moved beyond the twenty-something lovers I remember her writing in…
Drive Me Wild by Julie Ortolon is one of those books that’s frustrating because it so obviously could have been better. There are moments of pure enjoyment in this novel, but its serious flaws kept me from giving it a higher grade. Brent Zartlich was the bad boy of Beason’s Ferry, Texas. Laura Beth Morgan…
Before reading Rules of Surrender, I’d have never thought it possible to enjoy a “Sheik on the Thames” romance. And a romance where a bodice is actually ripped? Hah! Somehow, though, Christina Dodd managed to create a fast-paced, darkly humorous romance featuring a hero many may find impossible to like. As for this reviewer, what…
Robert’s Lady marks the very strong debut for romance novelist Nicole Byrd. It features a woman willing to risk everything for a future with the man she loves, though the ending is not completely satisfactory. Robert Manning, Viscount Holt and younger son of the Earl of Stonesbury, was kept a prisoner by the French for…
Dr. Alicia Underwood is a top radiation expert working for a company called Envirotech in Seattle. The “Wipe Clean Project” is hers alone, and will, if this groundbreaking research is proven effective, create a bacteria that will ultimately “eat” radioactive waste at the earth surface, keeping it away from humans. Jason Kirkland is the new…
Seven years ago Liz Braden left Mitch McCoy literally at the altar, escaping the small Virginia town of Manchester for better opportunities. Now she’s returned, discovered by Mitch himself late at night, on a deserted highway while she’s fixing a flat tire in a wedding dress. Mitch is blown over to see Liz again, and,…
Have you ever read a book that is so simplistic, so inaccurate and so frustrating that it makes you grit your teeth? That’s just what Just Before Midnight is. I’m surprised my teeth weren’t worn down to stubs when I finally turned the last page of this book. Mattie Bright is your average spunky American…
Lord Wynter Ruskin, the hero of Rules of Surrender, is the type of man readers will either love or hate. There’s not much middle ground with this guy. Since he lived for years as a Bedouin in the Middle East, he adopted many of the ways of his adopted Bedouin father. Wynter speaks in poetic…
This month we are reading Devilish, the much-awaited Rothgar book (on sale April 10th) from Jo Beverley. This is the fifth book in the Malloren series and gives us the love story of the Marquess of Rothgar (Beowulf Malloren) and Diana, Countess of Arrandale. Rothgar was first introduced in My Lady Notorious and has played…
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