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O.K., I like alpha males. No, I love alpha males. I am just crazy about a big, rugged, masculine man who is a real guy, and proud of it. What I don’t like is that so many of the alpha males in romance novels have a streak of either cruelty or arrogance, two traits that…
I always like a book that’s a little different from the norm and although this is an older book, if you get an opportunity to find it in a used bookstore, grab it and run with it. It’s well worth your time. Patrick O’Casey is a jock – big time. He’s been a quarterback for…
I wanted very badly for Sea Spell to cast a spell over me because I love selkie stories, romance or otherwise. And while the story of this selkie and his lady love was sweet music to my ears, there were so many other instruments blaring that the resultant cacaphony was deafening. By the time all…
I hadn’t heard anything about this book, but it looked good and it had a cop as a hero (which I just love) so I picked it up. I am so glad. I found myself unwilling to put it down, even while I was having dinner with my husband! And after thumbing through it a…
According to the translation, toraware is the Japanese word for obsession. I wonder what the Japanese word for boring is, because almost all the characters in this novel are self-obsessed navel-gazers. Harlan Cooper is an American who has served in Vietnam, been homeless in Seattle, and wandered through India. Now he is in Japan and…
Sometimes I think romance readers can get stuck in a rut by confining themselves to only medievals, only regencies, or only series books. Me – I like variety and am pleased when an author sets a book in a time period that is not often used in romances. Cranberry Point is sent in the American…
I picked up this book one day, because of its cover. Yes, the enigmatic look of both man and woman, staring at something far into the horizon, told me they had a special story to tell. And they did. The only reproach I have for the author, however, is the title. Saxon Bride is not…
Stranger in My Arms starts with a wonderful premise. A not-much-beloved husband comes back from the dead, changed. His title is restored, his fortune on the mend, the only thing left is to woo his wife – a wife who does not have many fond memories of him, having married him for practical reasons and…
Lisa Kleypas has written many wonderful books that I have absolutely loved. Her two best, Then Came You and Dreaming of You, offer two of my most favorite heroes ever in Lord Alex Raiford and Derek Craven, respectively. The heroines in these stories are equally impressive, especially Lily Lawson in Then Came You. Lily is…
The Rakehell’s Reform has an extremely melancholy air about it, one which never goes away, even when good things happen. The sadness in the lives of Rakehell Jack Ramsay and bourgeoisie Selina Preston permeate every page of the book, so that there is never a sense of joy to be felt, and that includes the…
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