Shoreline Drive

My mother has always loved to read my books. To this day, every time she sees me with a book in my hand, she has to ask, “What are you reading?” It doesn’t bother me so much now, but when was young, I often didn’t want her to know what I was reading (or I…

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

The title of this book perfectly describes my relationship to writer Rainbow Rowell. I’ve now read two of her books and both have easily earned DIK reviews, and I’m thrilled to add a new auto-buy author to a very, very short list. I’m also happy to set Fangirl as the bar to which, in my…

Hound Dog & Bean by B.G. Thomas

Magical realism pops up in Thomas’ latest and adds a different type of spice to an already heady romance. The magic of one man brightens and enlivens the life of another whose reliable steadfastness helps ground his flighty lover. H. D. Fisher, nicknamed Hound Dog, is something of a dog whisperer in Four-Footed Friends, the…

The House on Main Street

Sometimes I feel like if you have read one small town romance, you have read them all. I can tolerate quite a few if they have something to make them stand out of the herd. Sadly, I wasn’t able to find anything in The House on Main Street that really set it apart for me…

Talent for Trouble

As titles go, Talent for Trouble is quite apt, because I found this book chock full of contradictions. By turns hilarious, engaging, boring, and over the top, the book is the epitome of a hot mess. But there was a point where the book took a turn into permanent bizarro territory, and it lost me….

The Unidentified Redhead

I think the best word I can come up with to describe The Unidentified Redhead is try-hard. It simply tries too hard to be glib and quirky. What we end up with are people who don’t feel like real flesh-and-blood humans engaging in a romance that seems based primarily on mutual sexual attraction. That said,…

Perfect Together

This novel is a decent read by author Carly Phillips, who once again takes us to her fictional town of Serendipity. There are not a lot of ups and downs in this book and rather than traveling full speed ahead with the narrative, the author is content to let this one meander down the river…

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