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The Bride of Johnny McAllister is a sweet, rather gentle western that only just earns a subtle rating – the hero and heroine barely do more than kiss here! It’s smoothly written, and it’s the kind of book that may appeal to readers who like westerns but find many of them too gritty or dark….
Call it women’s intuition, call it fate, call it I get a discount at my bookstore, but I had a feeling I would like the Stephanie Plum mysteries by Janet Evanovich. To begin with, the heroine is frazzled, frizzy-haired and frustrated with her current lot in life. Familiar territory, I thought, plunging right ahead. Trenton,…
Susan Johnson’s latest historical is the sequel to Outlaw, a book I haven’t read. On page one of To Please a Lady, I was plunged into plots, intrigues, feuds, and the relationship between two lovers, Robbie Carre and Roxane Forrester, all of which were initiated in that earlier book. This could have been a bewildering…
The title of Mutiny at Almack’s gave me grave misgivings. I’m about as tired of the Almack’s setting as any reader of Regency Romance has a right to be. Too many Regency writers mistake setting for story and the title Mutiny at Almack’s had me ready for a lot of forced repartee conducted in period…
From the blurb on the back, A Knight’s Vow sounds like about 50% of all Medieval Romances: “He was her father’s enemy, and now he was her husband by the king’s decree.” Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Actually, A Knight’s Vow is a mite different from similar medievals I have read, and had loads of potential….
Neesa Hart’s A Kiss to Dream On makes for a fine read. Ms Hart, who has written historical romance as Mandalyn Kaye, tackles deafness not only as a personal problem, but updates readers on the current politics surrounding this disability. With such heavy material as a backdrop, it’s difficult to imagine integrating a believable love…
I don’t really read much Regency Romance, but I make an exception for Patricia Oliver. She transports me into the period in an authentic manner that doesn’t have this neophyte Regency Romance reader looking for the dictionary to understand Regency jargon. And, while the set-ups for her stories are not necessarily novel, the manner in…
Fixation has the outlines of a workable if unoriginal romance – city girl on a ranch falls for cowboy type and is menaced by a stalker. But these and other plot elements are handled so ineptly that rather than entertaining me, the book left me in a constant state of aggravation and annoyance. Jessica is…
Bebe’s by Golly Wow is the very hip, very now, very with-it tale of an African American woman’s search for love. If you can get past the relentless, sometimes overpowering slang and the alternating points of view in which the tale is told, there is a pleasant story to be read. In this follow-up to…
When I started The Promise, Donna Boyd’s sequel to her Desert Isle Keeper The Passion, I figured I was in for another exceptional read. I am very happy to report that I was not disappointed! This review is likely to turn into a gushing rave because it’s been so long since I’ve read two consistently…
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