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Narrated by Emma Bates In order to enjoy Truly Madly Yours, the listener needs to overlook a few large romance tropes, ignore having buttons pushed, and have faith that a monumental jerk can turn himself into a romance-worthy hero. Of course, this is written by a master of contemporary romance, Rachel Gibson, and if anyone…
Easily digested, warm and engrossing, Some Like It Hot by Susan Andersen is one of the best of this year’s light summer reads. Second in the Razor Bay series, it follows the romance between hunkalicious deputy sheriff Max Bradshaw and itinerant philanthropist Harper Summerville. Harper grew up travelling with her father, inspecting charities in order…
What’s the difference between a love story and a romance novel? Is it based on the amount of romance there is? Does it have to do with the main focus of the story? Whatever that difference is, I would definitely categorize Lady Julia as more a love story than a romance novel. Lady Julia Leighton…
A gay San Francisco cop in a Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer sweater and an art student who pays his tuition from his earnings as a prostitute meet at a Christmas party and fall in lust. Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, right? Fortunately, the two protagonists are strong enough characters that Land’s…
Every once in a while an author will flip a switch and turn on a specific part of my imagination. The language and scene settings in this novel flipped me to movies like The Thin Man and Sunset Boulevard. I “pictured” the novel in black and white and could see the characters in their glittering…
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor and Angela Dawe The cover of this book says it all for me but here are the details… I had listened to male/female POV narrations before hearing Patrick Lawlor and Angela Dawe with Suzanne Brockmann’s Infamous but this is the first duo that left a lasting impression. It’s been nearly three…
Castaway Cove was the first book I’ve read by JoAnn Ross, and although it was a nice enough read, I don’t know how soon I’ll get around to a second. The story was fine, the characters were sweet, but there wasn’t anything exceptional about it. I could just as easily have spent my day reading…
If you like Lord of Scoundrels or the Julia Quinn Bridgerton novels, you are going to like Once Upon a Tower. But if, like me, you’re not a huge fan of those books, then you won’t like this one either. It starts out strong, cruising towards B+ or even DIK territory before everything unravels, and…
Narrated by Patrick Lawlor and Melanie Ewbank This is a collection of the various short stories Brockmann has written about the characters from her Troubleshooter series over the years. Most of them have been published, sometimes as lagniappe in her books, others in PDF format on her original website (I wasn’t able to find them…
I’ve recently finished a glom of Foyle’s War, an excellent BBC mystery series set during WWII which looks at life on the English home front. This novel also deals with various portions of Europe during the war and reminds us that not everything centered on hometown parades with confetti and streamers. It cost a lot…
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