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Always go with your first instinct. I learned this when I competed in University Interscholastic League Spelling in high school, and it has served me well. Usually, I love Nora Roberts’ work, and Genuine Lies did have two good female characters – but my first impression of the book was that it just did not…
It’s harder to write a review for a bad book than it is for a good one. It’s also more difficult to assign a bad book a letter grade: where does the reviewer draw the line between a D and an F? Does the book hit the wall, or just fall to the floor with…
Let me begin by stating that this is not a romance, in the way that we usually mean the term here at AAR. Let me further state that this book is not for the squeamish – the level of violence depicted is high and often graphic. That said, if you’re up to a compelling tale…
I give up and give in. More than Magic wins the game. Despite some obvious flaws, it has a charm that permeates even the most purple love scene and the sketchiest of paranormal settings. There are plenty of things that should annoy me about this read, that simply don’t. Must be magic. Perfumist Isis Montgomery…
I don’t read fantasies. I don’t care for them, and I would rarely choose one to read on purpose. When More Than Magic was assigned to me, I groaned. Oh no, I thought. A fantasy, terrific. Then, I read it. Oh yes, I thought. A terrific fantasy! I believe this is only Kathleen Nance’s second…
The front cover of The Scoundrel’s Vow reads: “She was young, beautiful, innocent. He vowed to protect her. . . from himself.” While that sounds terrific, the execution is far less scintillating – this is one of those books that just misses. Perhaps together we can discover why. Calandra Locke has returned home to Scarborough…
Like many of you, I suspect, I cut my teeth on the old “Harlequin Presents” romances, where nothing more passionate took place between the hero and heroine than a few steamy kisses. Which was just as well, since if Sister Ruth had caught us with what we were reading instead of Latin textbooks, we’d’ve been…
What do you suppose happens when an immortal witch creates a love potion to bring her true love back to her? A romping good time filled with lots of laughs, that’s what! Lilith Romano is a Gypsy living in Northern Italy in the year 1420 and has done the unthinkable and unforgivable. She has fallen…
Cougar’s Woman is a story that has been told many times before. A white woman is captured by Indians and given to a member of the tribe as a slave. In this case, the tribe involved are the Apaches, and the tribal member is Cougar, a white man living as an Apache. Cougar has lived…
A casual bookstore browser may be lured into buying Ferney because its cover emphasizes its resemblance to Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander. Ferney is a good, compelling read, but it’s nothing like Outlander. There is no time travel here, but there are lots of past lives. If anything, it bares a passing resemblance to Jude Deveraux’s Remembrance….
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