Catching Kelly

Catching Kelly is, in a word, zany. Unfortunately, heroine Kelly isn’t. She spends the majority of the story having herself a pity party and whining more often than my three-year-old. If not for her kooky relatives and the terrific hero, this book would have been a disaster. Kelly Burke escaped her eccentric relatives eight years…

2000 Kisses

The very first thing I noticed about Christina Skye’s 2000 Kisses was that it was not Y2K compliant. I started reading 2000 Kisses on New Year’s weekend – a romance novel with a Y2K tie-in seemed like the perfect thing to read at that point. But it also made a very basic mistake glaringly obvious:…

Feel the Heat by Kathryn Shay

Feel the Heat by Kathryn Shay

Feel the Heat begins Kathryn Shay’s America’s Bravest trilogy, and what a beginning it is. An enjoyable relationship between two very likable people makes this one a winner; I’ve already reread it once. Feel the Heat and its sequels The Man Who Loved Christmas and Code of Honor put Shay on my auto-buy list. When…

The Day We Met

Maggy O’Brien’s life seems far from the stuff of romantic fantasy when we first meet her in Barbara Bretton’s The Day We Met. She’s the divorced and harried mother of two, coping with the news that her ex-husband is about to remarry, and hoping not to get caught in her pajamas as she drives her…

Head Over Heels

There are some books that are very hard for me to grade. Some elements of the plot hold zero appeal to me and turn me off, but I know other readers will love them. This is one of those books. One of the things that you should love to read about if you want to…

Jewels of the Sun

It is always a delight to read a new novel by Nora Roberts, but seemingly she may be on the brink of writing the best novels of her career. The deep, rich characterizations in Jewels of the Sun drive the plot and give life to the Irish backdrop. Roberts easily holds her reign as the…

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