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I will tell you straight off that Fading is about a young woman dealing with the horror of being raped and struggling to find her life again. It’s also an excellent New Adult title that goes a long way in reassuring me that the genre has a lot to offer besides love triangles and underage…
Narrated by Kate Reading This is the tenth installment in the wonderful Pink Carnation books, a Regency era series based on a league of spies with floral pseudonyms which started with the Scarlet Pimpernel. Ok, The Scarlet Pimpernel wasn’t the first book, but the inspiration for the league – well, you just have to start…
One of the things that interested me about this book was the fact that the majority of the action takes place somewhere with which I’m familiar – Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire, which I’ve visited a few times. I always enjoy reading a story set somewhere I’ve been, so that was an instant recommendation. I’ve also…
One of the dangers of exploration is that you can find yourself with something bad just as easily as you can find yourself with something good. In this case, looking for a new author led to a book that seemed to rejoice in mediocrity. Sinclair Adams has never met Nick Kealoha but he has revved…
I started Dangerous Curves Ahead when I was waiting in line at an RWA booksigning. It begins with a funny scene – the somewhat chubby heroine is caught red-handed buying a delicious black and white cookie, and when her ex’s skinny, mean aunt criticizes her, Ellis Garrett hilariously puts the old bat in her place….
This book is the sixth in Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series and in my opinion the strongest to date in this 18th-century storyline. Of course, I must confess I have not read Winter’s story yet, and if that novel is better than Duke of Midnight then it would deserve a solid A because it was…
McKenna tackles so many issues that other M/M romance authors avoid that this book almost seems like a playbook for sensitive issues handled well. The effects of PTSD and the atrocities in war are woven into a framework of gays in the military, presenting a compelling and sympathetic story of a career sergeant and his…
Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite novels of all time. The excellent writing and timeless romance make it (in my mind) the ultimate DIK. This book is a look at what Longbourn, the home of the Bennets, experienced below stairs while Elizabeth was meeting Darcy and Jane was being wooed by Bingley. Sarah…
Narrated by Davina Porter I read lots of Victoria Holt’s gothic romances when I was in my twenties. I still have several battered old paperbacks sitting on my shelves, of which The Devil on Horseback is one, although I haven’t read it for quite some time. But when I saw it was one of the…
How does an author make lovable a character that in previous books proved himself to be an arrogant, jealous, brutal sociopath that victimized his own family? Until I read Styxx I argued that it couldn’t be done, but Sherrilyn Kenyon pulled it off in amazing fashion. Styxx is going to be almost impossible to review…
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