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Just how interested are you in boating and amber? If you don’t know now, you will after you read Amber Beach, a book in which each of these subjects are discussed in elaborate detail. I discovered I was fairly interested in the amber, but not the boating. This pretty much sunk the first half of…
If you’ve ever been denied the chance to do what you love, you’ll empathize with Caroline Grayson. She’s a brilliant botanist and an accomplished mathematician. Unfortunately, she lives in Regency England, so her abilities make her an outcast. It isn’t seemly for a woman to study the sciences. Desperate to live her dreams, Caroline makes…
“It is not in the being, but in the recognizing” Yaniff, The MysticI was privy to these cryptic words weeks before I received the galleys of this book, but they never carried more meaning than in its conclusion, and perhaps, in my own life. For if Dara Joy’s Rejar (which preceded this story) is the…
Jayne Ann Krentz has just provided more fuel to the discussion about alpha heroes. Jasper Sloan, the hero of Flash is in some ways a typical alpha – a leader, more interested in business than in pleasure. At the same time, he’s a devoted family man. And when Olivia Chantry comes along, he learns to…
Mountain Heather is one of those books that refuses to be pigeon-holed. According to its spine, it is fiction, but the back blurb touts a romantic angle. It was originally published last year in Great Britain under the title Grianan, which makes much more sense, since there were neither mountains nor heather anywhere to be…
I may get drummed out of the sisterhood, but I must confess that I generally don’t like the heroines of screwball comedies. Too often, they are so dumb and annoying, I wonder how they have lived as long as they have (are you listening, Ally McBeal)? Kit McClellan, the heroine of Elizabeth Bevarly’s My Man…
Can we be honest here? I gave up reading V.C. Andrews novels years ago, with no desire to start up again. All through Connie Flynn’s The Fire Opal, I kept thinking I was in the middle of one. Maybe it was the Louisiana location, maybe it was the swamp or secrets long kept, but through…
Let me say right away that this is not a romance. I wanted to review this book for two reasons – I love this author, and the heroine is someone who has had an experience not often depicted in romance novels. Also, Patterson has done an amazing amount of research for this book; he talked…
Category romances are often cursed with silly titles. This is the case with Marilyn Pappano’s touching story of the return of a prodigal daughter, Older, Wiser…Pregnant. Once you get past the dumb title, you’ll find a decent story with believable and touching characters. Laurel Cameron is the oldest daughter in a large and loving family….
This book left a smile on my face the entire time I was reading it. It has my favorite romantic element – a Cinderella story. Many of my favorite romances as a young adult involved shy ugly ducklings making themselves over into swans and getting the guy. Apparently my taste hasn’t changed. You armchair psychiatrists…
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