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I’m just crazy about Harry – Harry O’Dell, that is, the hero of Suzanne Brockmann’s latest blockbuster. He’s a foul-mouthed, rough-edged, rumpled FBI agent from Brooklyn, out to save a dead man’s former trophy wife from the mob. Before you start reading this book, make sure dinner’s cooked and the dishes are done. You won’t…
Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series should enjoy the second in Nancy Bartholomew’s mystery series about Sierra Lavotini. Instead of a smart-mouth bounty hunter, Sierra Lavotini is a smart-mouth and boobacious stripper with a penchant for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Since I’m new to this genre of fiction, I…
Be warned: if you don’t like baby books, stay far away from this one. The entire book revolves around a woman who wants to get pregnant more than anything else. If, on the other hand, you like baby books, this might be the one for you. Laura Merritt wants a baby. Badly. She’s going to…
Draycott Abbey, that great gray cat Gideon, and the ghost of Adrian Draycott are back for another adventure. In the latest Draycott Abbey romance, author Christina Skye has given us another wonderful story of love and adventure. Hero and heroine, Jared MacNeill and Maggie Kincaide, are fighting their own demons when they meet. Maggie is…
I have a fascination of books with cross-dressing themes that rivals my fascination with virgin heroes. I’ve also heard many, many good things about Lynsay Sands. So I was pretty excited and looking forward to a rollicking good read with The Switch. What I got instead was a poorly written book with a bad case…
I started reading romance seriously a little over six years ago, and since then I have read every new book Jude Deveraux has published, and most of her backlist as well. After reading High Tide, I am starting to ask myself why I have been such a slavish Deveraux devotee. Like many of Deveraux’s recent…
I often think that a good writer can take any plot and make a good story of it. Maybe sometimes. Margery Harkness-Casares is a good writer, meaning that her narrative voice is both professional and compelling. But no one, and I mean no one could have succeeded with this preposterous plot. In Song of Innocence…
Michelle Jerott won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award for her first book, Absolute Trouble. I thoroughly enjoyed that one and wondered if she could do as well on her next book. Well, as good as Absolute Trouble was, All Night Long is even better and it is my candidate for one of…
Most books that earn an F really earn it, usually because the characters do something to provoke a violent, unpleasant response. The Dangerous Baron Leigh isn’t like that, and indeed I am sorry to be giving it such a poor grade, because I’m sure if another author had written this book with the same plot…
Oceanographer Riley St. Joe is the granddaughter of the once famous, now infamous oceanographer, Emile LaBreque. For the past year, Emile has been under a cloud of suspicion because his research vessel sank, taking five people with it. Many people blame Emile for the accident. Riley is the only person who still believes in Emile….
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