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In every Elizabeth Lowell I’ve ever read, the hero has always pinned a nickname on the heroine – “little cat,” “sunshine,” “schoolgirl,” “city girl” among them – that serve to emphasize the hero’s adult-ness and the heroine’s youth and assumed helplessness (and indeed, this has sometimes been the case). In Warrior, it’s “fairy-tale girl.” These…
Clever lady, Nora Roberts. With the first book of this series, she has created a world of the future, but she’s placed it only far enough away so that some of us, with the right medical care and a little luck, might live to see it. It is the world our grandchildren will inherit, and…
I have read only one story by Elizabeth Gage. It appeared in the anthology, Unmasked, and was one of the worst stories I’ve ever read. I hated it. So it was with immense trepidation that I began reading – with a closed heart and a skeptical mind – this author’s latest effort, The Hourglass. Can…
I don’t get a chance to eat out at elegant restaurants much, so when I go, I invariably choose a dish I’ve had before. I don’t want to waste my time, dollars, and calories on a meal I’ve never tried and that I might not like. Then I’d be disappointed and wish I hadn’t experimented….
Knight of a Trillion Stars launched Dara Joy as one of the more sensual (to put it mildly!) romance writers around. It is followed by Rejar and you really ought to read them both in order to get the full effect. Deana Jones is having a horrible day. She’s just been fired, and when she…
This is the first book in the Damaron series I’ve read, and if they’re all this good, I’m going to go back and find more. This book is a winning blend of romance and humor, and only a slight misstep in the heroine’s thinking process prevented it from being a true keeper. Nathan Damaron is…
If I could distill what it is that makes some heroines come across as warm, lovable and kind while others with very similar characteristics come across as fluffy girls, I’d bottle and sell it. Abigail Carrington in The Devil’s Love is the kind of heroine I love and she is the best thing in the…
Have you ever wished for something to be true so much that you convinced yourself it was, even though all signs pointed to the contrary? This is what happens to the heroine in Julia London’s The Devil’s Love. Abbey Carrington has convinced herself that Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield, has been waiting years to marry…
Raised in the Colonies, Caroline Richmond’s first significant act upon her return to England is to single-handedly come to the rescue of a dandy who has been set upon by thugs. She shoots two of the bandits while the injured gentleman whimpers and whines inside his carriage – he has been wounded in an anatomically…
Take Star Wars, add a little Romeo and Juliet, and turn up the thermostat almost to the boiling point, and you’ll begin to approach Lord of the Storm. I go back and re-read this one anytime I want to ward off the chill of winter. The story takes place in a futuristic world in which…
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