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I’m not a huge fan of military romances. SEALs and the like don’t hold much appeal for me, and those stories tend to be so over-the-top I spend the entire book rolling my eyes. While Tempted Into Danger an ICE: Black Ops Defenders book does stray into the ridiculousness territory more than once, it also…
I fell in love with the novels of M. M. Kaye during my teen years. I have never forgotten her vivid descriptions of India and the wonders she depicted on the pages of books such as The Far Pavilions and Shadow of the Moon. This novel picks up the tradition of writing about British Colonialism…
Honestly, there is nothing really wrong with Anything But Sweet by Candis Terry. A respectable entry into the massive subgenre that is the small town romance, it’s well written, the characters are generally likeable, and the banter is often witty. But since I prefer a little less predictability and manufactured drama in my love stories,…
In Once Upon a Tartan we renew our acquaintance with the MacGregors of Balfour, previously seen in The Bridegroom Wore Plaid, which was one of my favourite books of last year. (And which figured on my recent AAR Top Ten list). Unlike many authors embarking upon trilogies featuring siblings, Grace Burrowes chose not to allocate…
Anything can and usually does happen in a fairytale. Pumpkins turn into coaches and mice into horses. The prince falls in love with the commoner. Love has no boundaries and men can see through dirt, grime, and rags to the beauty below. When Love Takes Over, the title implies, the sky’s the limit. The hard…
All the comforts of home. That saying serves to remind us that home is a place where many of us feel most at ease, most ourselves. But for some, home can have a far different meaning. Home can mean the place where you were abused, looked down upon, taken advantage of. For the hero of…
Narrated by Corrie James What the Duke Desires is the first in a new series of books, The Duke’s Men, by Sabrina Jeffries, and I certainly plan to read/listen to the others in the series on the strength of this one. Lisette Bonnaud and her brother, Tristan, are the illegitimate children of Viscount Rathmore and his…
I sometimes feel like I can describe the plot of all New Adult novels to you in one paragraph. Tattooed bad boy meets virginal college girl. There is sexual tension during all of their highly contrived run-ins but each of their troubled pasts keep them apart. Their otherwise pointless friends push them together until they…
The general problem with The Wicked Deeds of Daniel Mackenzie is that nothing goes quite far enough. There are no wicked deeds. The worlds of the hero and heroine – engineering and spiritualism, respectively – aren’t detailed or thoughtful enough. The characterizations are full of unrealized potential. Although there’s a decent read here, overall the…
Narrated by Justine O. Keef I hadn’t heard of this self-published series before it came up on the list of possible review titles. I gather it has been very popular and is one of those books, which rode the Fifty Shades of Grey wave. Consequently, I knew almost nothing about The Proposition going in. Emma Harrison is…
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