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I like political mysteries; they make a nice change from courtroom thrillers and straight romance. However, this one was neither exciting nor different, and I found it very run-of-the-mill. Sharon Hays is a hard-working, semi-famous attorney and single mother to Melanie. When Congressman Will John Benedict is accused of murdering the young intern with whom…
I’m willing to suspend my belief in the laws of physics and the impossibility of time travel, as long as the story’s told with panache and a dash of credibility. Add a mythical creature that’s close enough to fact, and the story’s even better. But gosh darn it, there had better be a hero I…
I enjoy reading and I always begin a book with anticipation and one thought in my mind: “This is going to be a good story.” With Inseparable, that thought did not last through the prologue. After I read where Mike Greywolf’s father and grandparents are murdered in a torrent of blood, gore and overwriting, it…
There have been authors and readers who have suggested that we at AAR should only write nice things about the novels we read. I have a few nice things to say about Whisper Always: The hero became almost likable during the final third of the book. It takes place during the Victorian times – a…
When Rider Magrane was a teenager, he and some friends decided to rustle some cattle, just for kicks. As a result, one of Rider’s friends was shot and killed, and he and the others spent five years in prison. Now released, Rider has returned to his hometown of Drover, Kansas, to try to make amends…
Sandra Kitt is excellent in writing about the races in all of the varied forms we experience them today. Her heroine, Dallas Oliver, is biracial. She and her white best friend, Valerie, are now in their early thirties and have been bound together since they were in grade school. Dallas is a journalist for a…
I didn’t think You Again could possibly live up to the blurbs adorning its covers. “I loved it!” says the quote from Karen Robards. “. . . impossible to put down until the final, wonderfully satisfying page is turned,” said Kay Hooper. “Heh,” I thought. But what do you know? Robards et al were right….
Some C level books are run-of-the-mill and mediocre, while others suffer from some detail the reviewer simply couldn’t tolerate. The Raven’s Lady has neither problem. Instead, it should be classified under could-have-been-excellent – which is the most frustrating category of all. Herbalist Eibhlin (or Eileen with 20th century spelling) travels to Ireland to revisit the…
This is my first LaVyrle Spencer book and I have a feeling that I started out with the wrong one. This was a difficult book to grade because, while it’s not a bad book, it fails completely as a romance. The Fulfillment is really the story of three people, the heroine, her husband and his…
Don’t be fooled by the ethereal title (or the redhead on the cover that looks nothing like the raven-haired heroine). Wishes on the Wind is for readers who like weight to their stories. Elaine Barbieri tackles the tough scene of the Pennsylvania coal fields of the 1870s, and does a creditable job of portraying the…
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