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I’m a big fan of Katy Perry’s song “Hot and Cold” which contains the line “You don’t really want to stay, no, but you don’t really want to go.” At the start of this novel the heroine is certain of what she wants – to leave her hometown of Brookhollow as fast as possible. But…
There are lots of things that can make a good romance work, and by the same token, there are plenty of things that can make a book not work. One can have idiot characters, weak writing, implausible plots, etc.. Sometimes, as with Bringing Maddie Home, the issues are a bit more subtle. As with every…
There is so much I like about this story: the unique characters, the London setting, the fact that we actually see the characters at work and learn about their lives outside of work. And best yet? The heroine works at the Victoria and Albert Museum as a specialist in knitting! Pat gave the e-book version…
by Talmadge Ragan Laura Griffin is one of my go-to authors for thrillers and romantic suspense. Unspeakable is second in her Tracers series, with balanced – though not necessarily equal – portions of dark suspense, law enforcement procedural, romance, and sexy hero. While part of a series, Unspeakable does stand on its own. Elaina McCord is…
An interesting philosophical question about romance novels: what’s more important, the journey or the ending? A romance is usually not considered a romance without the happy ending, but if the journey isn’t interesting, then the novel isn’t a worthwhile read, either. Well, however interesting this question is, you’re not going to answer it by reading…
I’m a big fan of Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation series, but was skeptical several years ago when I learned that Pink 12 would feature Miss Gwen as the heroine. Admittedly Miss Gwen has been with the series since the beginning, first as chaperone, and then as an eager participant in the exploits of the Pink…
Our new Author and Narrator Review Request program is off to a resounding start. Not all of these requests are picked up for review, but a good number are. We’re discovering new narrators and authors as well as getting a shot at reviewing well-known authors’ work not offered through major publishers, our usual source of review books….
Narrated by Katherine Kellgren Dark Witch is the first in The Cousins O’Dwyer trilogy. That clued me in straight away that there would be three romantic pairings but one over-arching storyline. It’s a good vs. evil story, with the power of the first Dark Witch, Sorcha, handed down over hundreds of years to three relations –…
Why did I read Blythewood? Because my name is Blythe, of course. And judging from the fellow readers who added it on Goodreads, that makes…two of us. Perhaps Carol Goodman should have called it Ashleywood. Blythewood is kind of all over the place at first. No sooner has it started than the heroine, Ava, is…
This book is the second in Susan Fox’s Caribou Crossings series, but readers need not read the first book in order to enjoy this one. It does well as a stand-alone. This is a fairly solid book that might have made it into DIK territory if the author had not resorted to more than one…
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