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Forget Me Not is an intriguing contemporary suspense novel with gothic overtones, reminiscent of Mary Stewart’s books such as The Moon Spinners and My Brother Michael. Although the plot is somewhat predictable, multi-dimensional characters and a subtle building of tension sustain the reader’s interest. Complex and bittersweet family relationships are explored here as a woman…
Remember the TV show Mystery Science Theatre 3000, the one where two robots sat around with their human friend Joel and wisecracked their way through the cheesiest science-fiction movies ever made? It was the only way anybody could stand to watch those films. Reading Wings of Destiny, I kept wishing desperately that Tom Servo and…
Mended Hearts is from the Quilting Romance line of books from Jove – historical romances that contain quilting as a story element. Handmade quilts have long been a symbol of home, warmth, and love. But can quilts also predict marital happiness? Some of the inhabitants of Apple Grove, Iowa believe so, and this is the…
When I first put my hands on Forbidden Passion I thought it was a piping hot love story in a Viking setting. Given my past experiences with the accuracy level of other Viking romances, I gritted my teeth in advance, but they quickly unclenched. This is one romance that gets the facts mostly right, and…
This is one of those uneven books that is at times quite interesting, but suffers from the proverbial sagging middle. It starts well and ends well, but in between there are some boring parts that I had to force myself to get through. The result is a very average read. Gavan St. Aldan is the…
Diana Palmer is so very popular that I asked to review this, her latest book. The plot looked interesting – it was about gambling on a contemporary Indian reservation. I sat down to read and the more I read, the less I enjoyed it. Paper Rose left me angry, confused, upset, and baffled. I’m afraid…
If your spouse suddenly disappeared one day, only to reappear two years later with no memory of what happened, needle marks in her arm and an Ankh tattoo, how would you feel? I’d feel pretty suspicious, and at first so does Clay LeGrand. In Remember Me, Clay and his wife Francesca (Frankie) have to fight…
Treasures of the Heart is part of Berkley’s new line of quilting romances. Basically it’s Americana with a dash of stitchery thrown in for good measure. It has a slow, gentle quality about it that’s appealing – it’s one of those books you want to read in front of the fire place, wearing a flannel…
Apache Johnny Whitehorse shared a passionate teen-age love with Leigh Foster. Leigh’s horrible and greedy racist father was a rich man who employed Johnny’s horrible and abusively alcoholic father to train his horses. When Leigh’s father found out that his little girl was having sex with an Indian, he told her to dump Johnny or…
When Stephanie Laurens wrote Devil’s Bride, she seemed to take the romance world by storm. Lots of people (including myself) loved it. Others didn’t, but it seemed like almost everyone read it. By now, most people have formed an opinion on the Bar Cynster Series. If you didn’t care for the preceding books, then you…
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