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Blue Rain, from Jove’s “Magical Love” series, actually seems like two books, swirled together like a Dairy Queen Twistee. One of the books is pretty good. The other one is stupid. Kasey Wildmoon is an L.A. reporter sent to Nevada to investigate the shootings of more than one hundred mustangs. The horses’ deaths have been…
Would you know your child if she suddenly reappeared after a thirty-year absence? Would you be willing to go to the ends of the earth to save her, putting your own life at risk in the process? Could you open your heart after it was welded shut in the face of hopelessness and despair? The…
Have you ever read a romance novel where, about three quarters of the way through, you wanted to take the heroine by the shoulders, shake her hard, and yell, “What is your problem?” Then turn to the hero, take him by the shoulders, shake him hard, and yell, “What can you possibly see in her?”…
Have you ever been distracted while reading a romance because so much of the text has been italicized? After finishing Thea Devine’s first series romance, what mostly sticks in my mind is neither the story nor the characters, but all those damn italics! And, considering her reputation for writing historical romance/historical erotica, I frankly expected…
I am not a fan of Women’s Fiction. If a book remotely seems like Women’s Fiction, it is more than enough to send me away, and to be honest, when I accepted the assignment of reviewing this book, it was with more than a little bit of dread. Much to my shock, I was very…
The Black Knight is like a window to the past. Not to medieval times, but to the 1970s – when the prose dripped with purple, and the hero and heroine vowed to hate each other forever but hopped into bed two sentences later. Romance has long since moved past these conventions, but someone forgot to…
Romeo & Julia is the antithesis of the “sweet savage romance,” which is why I enjoyed it as much as I did. There’s not a lot of ugly, melodramatic conflict. There’s no overwhelming “I hate you, but I lust after you anyway” passion. Instead, there’s a hero who’s quite a bit younger than the heroine,…
Tucker Dennis is having a bad day. Things aren’t going well on the job and he’s worried about his son (as usual). The note on his kitchen table is the topper, informing him that his father Harold has gone off and gotten himself married and is now honeymooning with his bride at the Blue Flamingo…
There is a Season has a little bit of everything. There are midwives, a questionable death, alcoholism, menopause, Vietnam flashbacks, and a family torn apart by bitterness. Then there are secrets about children given up for adoption, daring plane rescues, and dog sleds. And then there is the sixties music. Lots of sixties music. While…
Pirate stories are amongst the more maligned in the field of romance novels, so when I got a chance to review this offering by Marti Phillips, I jumped at the chance, hoping to find a rare gem among the stereotypical Pirate books out there. Alas, it was not to be. Adrian Wolfe is a feared…
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