On paper, this book really shouldn’t have appealed to me. It’s set in a small town, and I consider any town of less than 100,000 way too small for me. It has a hero who is the town’s sheriff, and – let’s face it – this is a contemporary romance cliché. It also features characters…
Killing Time is a romance between former college sweethearts who get a second chance at love. Caroline Lamb comes to Derryvillie, Illinois as assistant producer of a reality TV show, Killing Time in a Small Town. When she arrives for an appointment at the local real estate office, she realizes her past has caught up…
By Design is a light story that might be ideal when a person wants something simple to read, yet it’s not a book that will keep one turning the pages in anticipation. The characters are likable but also cardboard, and while the story is pleasant, it’s also common and predictable. Lauren Hughes is a victim…
Romance novel nerds are not like the nerds I know. Take the nerd in this novel. Harry Armbrewster wears glasses, is kind of shy and is an accountant. Those are his only nerdly qualities, otherwise he is pretty hunkish. He’s tall, he’s nice looking, he can kick butt and he’s really…well, I’ll get to that…
Some time ago a friend of mine recommended A Crime of the Heart as a good cry-your-eyes-out kind of read. I am only occasionally in the mood to cry my eyes out, so this one has sat neglected in the TBR for at least a year. But as I was picking out books to read…
Bad Boys Down Under has “beach read” written all over it. With its hot surfer dudes (and chicks) and short-story format (you can probably finish a story before you have to re-apply your sunscreen), it’s perfect for the summer.
My pleasure in reading a wonderful book is surpassed only by the excitement of discovering a new-to-me author; it’s not just the anticipation of great books to enjoy in the future but also the idea of an immediately available backlist. Having just finished Christie Ridgway’s Do Not Disturb, I’m now torn between heading off to…
Hot Legs is a book based on a fairly interesting premise – a mystery surrounding a missing painting – that is failed by one-dimensional characters, repetitive (to the point of being boring) hot sex, and, well, bad writing. There isn’t a euphemistic way to put it. The writing in this book is laughably bad, even…
Let’s get it right out on the table: Susan Andersen builds her plot around one of those extraordinarily impossible coincidences (but, heck, haven’t we all experienced one of those “impossible” coincidences at least once in our lives?) and, yes, there is a secret baby (okay, something most of us haven’t experienced). But, for me all…
We’ve all read the story of the heroine who leaves the big bad city to live in a small town. This is the story of a hero who leaves the big bad city to live in a small town. Can he persuade the woman he loves (a high-powered Hollywood executive) to leave Tinseltown and follow…
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