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Although I do love reading romance novels, I would be the first to admit they often have ridiculous titles. I know quite a few people who refuse to try them based on their often outrageous covers and names. But I know better, and so when I opened How to Be a Scottish Mistress I put…
Obsession can be a powerful thing. It can help us do great deeds or it can be the cessation of greatness. An obsessed character can be a fantastic, multifaceted personage or a cardboard cutout with only one side painted in. In the case of this novel the author manages to land her obsessed character somewhere…
I want to like author Murphy’s books. I truly do. That he is well-meaning and has a good heart shines through his writing. The only problem is that his style tends to be overly journalistic, which doesn’t translate well to romance or to relationship stories. This book is a case in point. When his older…
Tess Oliver’s Freefall is a great example of synergy. When I analyze each of the individual aspects of the story – character, plot, editing – I realize I shouldn’t like this book as much as did. But when put all together, this story with a creepy Sleeping With the Enemy vibe kept me turning pages…
Narrated by Leah Mallach Marie Bellavance is a human, working at Midnight Liaisons, a dating agency for supernatural beings. She has a fatal genetic disease (more on this later) and when she learns that supernaturals can shrug off such ailments, she becomes obsessed with being “turned” by one kind or another in order to keep…
Mary Balogh is, I will admit, one of my very favorite authors. She has a gentle, sophisticated style to her writing that never fails to charm me. Although this was perhaps not my very favorite of all her books, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Vincent and Sophia are young and a tad naïve, but on the…
Alyssa Everett is an author whose name on a cover is already guaranteed to make me take at least a second look, even though she has only (so far) published two books. I listened to the audio version of her earlier Ruined by Rumor a few months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, despite the fact…
Narrated by Faye Adele The Lost Lords of Pembroke are three sons of a duke whose uncle tried to do them all in to inherit the title himself 15 years earlier. The 2 older boys, twins, were old enough to take care of themselves, but the youngest, Rafe, was only 10. The twins left Rafe…
Through a relative’s slip of the tongue, Lydia discovers that she has living sisters. After her family’s accident in which her parents were killed, the three young sisters were split up, Lydia and her sister Susanna to Amish couples and her youngest sister Chloe to her English, non-Amish grandmother. Since the girls were so young…
The saying goes “All is fair in love and war”. Of course, most don’t agree with this. Society as a whole condemned what happened in Nazi Germany during the years of the Second World War. This author ambitiously tackles the subjects of love and war during that turbulent time in that extremely turbulent place. Beth…
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