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Let me start this review by saying I enjoy most of Ann Aguirre’s work, as herself and under a couple of pseudonyms. I volunteered to review Agave Kiss, as I have been saving this series as a gift for myself. Hoping to be current before reviewing this last book, I sat down with book one…
Girl detectives have always been a big thing in the reading world. From Nancy Drew to the more recent Flavia de Luce, we can’t seem to get enough of youthful sleuths. This novel channels Veronica Mars a bit, combining that character very gently with Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to deliver a fun, entertaining mystery. Strawberry…
Narrated by Tanya Eby Tanya Eby is a narrator that puzzles me. Her narration of The Search by Nora Roberts is excellent. It is so right, in fact, that I bumped my rating of the book up for the audio version because Eby’s narration makes the characters come alive. Heart of Fire by Linda Howard…
It would be easy label Alexis Hall’s debut novel Glitterland as literary fiction masquerading as romance. The language he uses – his metaphors are often show stoppingly gorgeous – and his narrator, a bipolar depressive – beg to be read by those who dismiss genre fiction as lowly. The next time someone sniffs derisively at…
Readers often complain about the abundance of seemingly perfect heroines in so many romance novels. That’s definitely not a problem here. In this second entry in the author’s Camelot series set in the fictional college town of Camelot, Ohio, both the primary and secondary heroine are prickly, strongly independent women. At times I found their…
Narrated by Simon Prebble Julia Quinn is one of my go-to authors when I want a fairly lighthearted, well–written story with a sexy hero, a lively heroine, and plenty of humor, and It’s in His Kiss, the seventh title in her Bridgerton series, certainly delivers on all counts. I also like the fact that this…
Years of mental and physical abuse leave marks that take a monumental support system to ease, but never erase. Fortunately, the protagonist of Quinn’s newest novel not only finds the support system, but also is pulled from the blackness surrounding him in a series of tiny steps that will make readers appreciate the effort it…
An Heir of Deception is the third book in Beverley Kendall’s Elusive Lords series. While I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary to have read the previous books in the series, several of the characters from those books appear in this one and it might be useful to have a rough idea of who is who…
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton One of the first books I read when I got back into reading romance a few years ago was Flowers From the Storm. I remember being caught up in heart pounding fear for Jervaulx as he was mistreated in the asylum; of feeling rage on his behalf. I remember being so…
Caroline Linden’s Love and Other Scandals is the best historical romance I’ve read this summer. Joan Bennet, the spinster heroine, has a sharper tongue and a sharper mind. The louche hero, Tristan Burke, is witty and wicked. Together, they are an engaging couple whose path to true love is sweet, believable, interesting, and sexy. Plus,…
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