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I was surprisingly charmed by The Wedding Favor. An unusually large number of wedding stories have cropped up in my TBR pile of late, and so it was with resignation that I opened up yet another. Happily, this one turned out to be amusing and quite enjoyable. Our story opens with Tyrell Brown awaiting the…
This is the second or third book I have read by this author and as with the others, A Risk Worth Taking is mostly well written and features some appealing characters, but it’s not going to set the romance world alight. It’s a simple and undemanding read, but the storyline is unoriginal and, quite frankly,…
Narrated by Courtney Patterson. I reviewed Lord of Secrets for All About Romance in September, 2013 and gave it an A-. It’s well written and characterised and the story has some unusual elements for a historical romance that Ms. Everett treats with intelligence and sensitivity. The eponymous Lord is David Linney, Marquis of Deal, a…
This book was so predictable that I could have begun my review before I even finished it, gambling that nothing in the last third would surprise me. Although yes, I did finish it eventually, I was right. Emma Hart’s sister is getting married in Oklahoma. Emma, a New Yorker, is attracted to two of the…
I think I just found a contender for 2014’s Best Category Romance. Mr. (Not Quite) Perfect mixes lighthearted romantic comedy and emotional angst almost perfectly to create a story that held my attention from beginning to end. Not many books will manage to make me laugh out loud and get teary but this one manages…
When the Rogue Returns is an entertaining and undemanding read – I whipped through it in a couple of sessions – but the fast pacing and the intriguing storyline of the re-building of a marriage couldn’t quite disguise the fact that the characterization was somewhat thin and that the plot hinged on one element which…
A note from Shannon: As you read this review, you’ll see the word “read” a lot. Please know that, in this review, as well as in others I have written, the word “read” technically means listen. I am totally blind, so all my reading is done auditorialy. When I talk about reading for twenty-four hours,…
Narrated by Carolyn Morris Maya Rodale’s new series under the umbrella title of Bad Boys and Wallflowers consists of both Historical and Contemporary romances, in which I believe the contemporaries are modern re-workings of the historicals. This first book in the series was a very enjoyable piece of well-written fluff, although if you like a…
As a longtime fan of Ms. Willig’s Pink Carnation series, I had mixed feelings when I heard about this stand-alone novel. The historical portion set in post-WWI Nairobi sounded fascinating, but how would this stack up? And when I learned that there was a different narrator, I was even more nervous. No Pink Carnation? No…
I love makeover stories. The classic Pygmalion tale of a woman who discovers just what she can accomplish is a story I never seem to grow tired of hearing. Not all such tales turn out fabulous though. In this case what starts out as an interesting story winds up bogged down by its determination to…
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