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Bad family relations and ugly relatives abound in romance fiction, usually holding either the hero or heroine back from reaching a happily ever after. But few have loaded a character with such a horrific backstory as Thomas does in her debut. Christopher, raised in a foster home, is the brother of a convicted pedophile, whose…
I don’t know what to say about this novel. Seriously, I am speechless — which is a fate I wish would have befallen Blake O’Hara Heart, the heroine of this book. Her endless asides, constant opinions, and ceaseless “charming” Southern chatter just about did me in. I kept wishing someone would kill the woman just…
Narrated by Jenny Sterlin Ravishing the Heiress is the second book in the Fitzhugh trilogy and tells the story of the young Earl Fitzhugh, known to his friends as Fitz, and his wife, Millie, who are contracted into an arranged marriage at the ages of nineteen and sixteen respectively. I read the print version when…
I started writing this review a day or two after I finished reading What the Duke Desires, and was poised to give it a B or B-. Then a couple of days went by, and I got back to writing this review, and… I had nothing. I didn’t remember this book at all. And that…
I have read all the Anita Blake books. All of them. I really enjoyed the first ones, where Anita is battling against what she wants, and who she wants, and who she is. Where the bad guys make sense, and she has to really fight, to use all the resources at her disposal to win….
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton I read The Dream Hunter in print a few years ago. It doesn’t hold the special place in my heart which Flowers from the Storm (my first Kinsale) holds, but I remember enjoying it very much. When I was offered the opportunity to review the audio version, I jumped at the…
When my teenage student walked into my classroom, slammed a copy of this book on the desk, and announced, in audible capital letters, “THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN,” I knew Anna and the French Kiss was something special. A contemporary story of discovering the world and yourself at the same time, Anna works…
Adventure in the National Parks! Romance! Exploration of changing roles for women! Lots of nature photography! Marci’s Desire certainly sounded like a historical with a lot going for it and I went into the book thinking it would be a lot of fun to read. Sadly, for a book with so much going on ,…
Narrated by Kaleo Griffith When I read Surrender upon its release in 2006, I not only graded it an A+, I added hero Iain Mackinnon to the top of my favorite heroes list and I mean the very top. When I started wishing for Pamela Clare in audio format back in 2009 during my first…
When small town romance is done right, it is a tale of two people finding love who just happen to live in a really neat little community. When it is done wrong, it often winds up being a morality tale on the evils of the big city and how it is better to divorce than…
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