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Mako Yoshikawa’s debut novel is exquisite. Here is a tale of a modern, young Japanese-American woman’s search for truth, presented as a tapestry interwoven with luminous threads of emotion, sensuality, and human connections in a world in which joy seldom comes without its measure of pain. This is not a romance, although it is certainly…
Miss Treadwell’s Talent is a talent for finding things and people, which is what she spends most of the book doing, under the disapproving eye of Socrates, Earl of Hyatt. On the plus side, this book has an interesting, likable heroine and is often laugh-out-loud funny. Unfortunately the behavior of the hero mars what would…
My grandmother was a mistress of the art of quilting. I remember watching her when I was young as she would sit by the quilting frame and stitch the quilt top, the padding, and the backing together into one unit with tiny little stitches. The quilting frame was a large piece of equipment that she…
Being an inveterate Star Wars fan, I couldn’t help noting the numerous reference points between Nighthawk and the Star Wars canon. Picture the Rebellion against the tyrannical Dynast, how a cynical smuggler tries to stay neutral while being drawn to the side of friends and justice. Toss in the Dynast’s arrogant daughter, whom the ruffian…
After reading the Desert Isle Keeper Review of the author’s second novel, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, and reading the raves about Watermelon on our Reviews Message Board, I had high hopes for it. It’s taken a few days of mulling the book over to figure out why I initially told my husband, “It’s a…
Lady of the Night is one of those reads that contains good ingredients but never manages to transform them into something special. I read it in one sitting, but I did sigh from time to time, ever hoping it would make a last minute turnaround. Katharina Ferguson is visiting haunted castles in England when she…
Before you even ask, yes, I am a big fan of Star Trek. Although I really enjoy Star Trek, I don’t automatically love all things Trek, so when I say this book is good, you can trust my opinion as a finicky reader. This book is good. Vulcan’s Heart begins with a Vulcan wedding betrothal….
The best thing I can say about Love Lessons is that it isn’t boring. It’s jam-packed with trite dialogue, cliché characters, unrealistic settings and purple prose, but it retains a sort of campy charm that kept me reading until the last page – if only to see what situation the too-stupid-to-live heroine and her testosterone-driven…
Watching Dominic Wyndom, ex-spy and younger brother to an Earl, cling perilously to a church steeple makes the perfect opening for Flowers Under Ice. Few rakes, disillusioned or not, are as willing to court death. Soon Dominic learns that his estranged wife Harriet is dead. Her companion, Catriona Sinclair, wants him to travel to Scotland…
Night Whispers could have gone one of two ways: It could have been a wonderfully sinful example of erotica or it could have been a classic slapstick comedy. Unfortunately, it was neither, and I was left mourning the book it could have been. Mitch Wymore returns from an extended research trip to China to find…
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