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A Month of Romance Audio Favorites Selection Narrated by Simon Prebble When He Was Wicked is one of my first romance novels, and also one of my first audiobooks – and I’ve listened to it several times. It is book #6 in the Bridgerton series – Francesca Bridgerton’s story, the darkest and most serious of…
I’m primarily familiar with Marie Force through her Fatal romantic suspense series. I like her writing and I was curious to try her small town romance. Even though she sometimes makes family life in Vermont look a little too perfect, All You Need is Love is a fun, engaging book and I could see fans…
Secrets for Seducing a Royal Bodyguard is the first full-length novel in Ms Kelly’s new Renegade Royals Series, in which the heroes are the illegitimate – and fictitious – sons of English princes. I suppose the best way to describe the book overall is that it’s a Regency romp with a dash of skulduggery, adventure,…
Can a teacher and lifelong reader really love a severely dyslexic man? The second of the Grime and Punishment series about the men who clean up scenes of the crime and other potentially toxic sites successfully grapples with this question of essential personalities and established lifestyles. Eddie “Cha-Cha” Vasquez, the organizer and manger at Brothers…
As titles go, Talent for Trouble is quite apt, because I found this book chock full of contradictions. By turns hilarious, engaging, boring, and over the top, the book is the epitome of a hot mess. But there was a point where the book took a turn into permanent bizarro territory, and it lost me….
I am the first to admit that medieval Highlander romances aren’t my normal cup of tea. Like books with the word “pirate” in the title, the sight of the “H” word, coupled with the de rigeur naked, brawny, headless torso with a hint of a plaid somewhere about on a book cover is usually guaranteed…
Narrated by Anne Flosnik There are some characters that are simply unforgettable. Margaret of Ashbury, heroine of Judith Merkle Riley’s historical trilogy, is one such character. After finishing the first in the trilogy, A Vision of Light, I couldn’t wait to find out where life would take Margaret. It wasn’t long before I gave into…
Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie Shadow Woman is in the vein of Linda Howard’s more recent romantic suspense novels, with a heavy emphasis on the suspense that almost supersedes the romance. The prologue introduces us to the horrific murder of the President of the United States by his wife, witnessed by a Secret Service agent who loses…
How does a gay agoraphobic fine artist find love? In the pantheon of opposites attract romances, how artist Miles Caldwell and rock sensation Adam Craig (of Black Varen, the band of the moment) meet and fall in love might be one of the most stirring. After his parents die in a car crash from which…
Mariah Stewart’s contemporary romances have been comfort reads for me for years and I was delighted when she returned to the genre after years of writing serial killer romantic suspense. Leigh gave this a B- review here at AAR in print format finding too many returning characters and a too perfect small town detrimental. I…
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