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I considered giving this book a higher rating, but I couldn’t, for one main reason. For most of the book, the hero makes stupid assumptions about the heroine and treats her rudely. If you like romance novels where the hero spends most of his time misjudging the heroine, you’ll love this one. Personally, I’ll take…
Eddie Berlin is a tortured hero with a difference. Haunted by the past, he drinks too much, he meets with prostitutes in a neglected farmhouse, and he is agoraphobic (agoraphobia is literally fear of the marketplace). Yet he is also sensitive and quietly heroic. Maddie Smith, the product of a dysfunctional upbringing, is the perfect…
There’s one thing you have to realize about me … I love Jude Deveraux’s books. Her books helped introduce me to the romance genre. Knight in Shining Armor remains one of my all time favorite books. That’s why this is a difficult review for me to write. I didn’t hate Remembrance, but I can’t say…
Somewhere in the middle of Kentucky, there is a garden being built that sounds like it would be a wonderful place to visit. The reason I know so, is because this book was about that garden, and it was about a romance that came about because of that garden. Garden of Dreams is an original,…
Although there has been strong “buzz” on this book, it didn’t do much for me. It harkened back to earlier days of romance when heroes and heroines were stock and descriptions overdone. Seth Wyatt, a best-selling horror novelist, and Pippa Cochran, a woman fleeing an abusive relationship, meet when she takes a job as his…
After I read Once in Paris by Diana Palmer, a book that treated an older man/younger woman romance in a way I found extremely distasteful, I picked up Rachel Lee’s Lost Warriors. This book is an excellent study of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a Vietnam veteran. Lost Warriors also treats the love between a…
Taken! is not the kind of book you stop and analyze. It’s not deep or profound, but if you take it for what it is – an incredibly sensuous story with two very likable lead characters, I think you will be pleased. Dillon Oaks is a consultant who has been brought in by the Johnson’s…
Cari Fremont has never known kindness from a man. Her father sold her into marriage at fifteen. Her husband, Adrian, was abusive in almost every way imaginable. Now that he is believed dead, his equally repulsive brother, Julian, has decided to have Cari for himself. Dominic Saxton is Julian’s most hated enemy and it is…
First off, be forewarned, this is not a “romance” novel, if such is defined as a story with the primary focus on the romantic relationship. Margot Dalton is an established contemporary romance writer who has taken the leap from romance to romantic suspense, and actually that categorization is a bit of a stretch with this…
It has always been easier for me to name my favorite actor or author rather than my favorite movie or book of all time. Nora Roberts wins my vote for all-time-favorite Romance novelist and her first installation of the Born In trilogy, Born In Fire, is a spellbinding adventure through the passion, loyalty, independence and…
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