The Royal Treatment is a book with a great deal of style and very little substance. That may not sound like much of a compliment, and for many readers it won’t be. But anyone willing to accept the book for what it is – slick, goofy, occasionally bewildering, but mostly fun – should find it…
C reviews are always the hardest. Ask any reviewer. Hate a book and you know exactly why; love it, same goes. But for the ones that fall somewhere in between the explanations and articulations just don’t come. Why was it just sort of so-so? Very hard to say. I just know that a few weeks…
Clearly, Susan Donovan is an author who shows no signs of falling into a rut. And, while it’s hard not to admire the author for her adventurous approach to writing and her determination to write a book largely unlike last year’s Take A Chance On Me, it’s equally hard not to admit that Public Displays…
Laura Leone’s Fever Dreams is an expanded and updated version of a hard-to-find romance originally published in 1997. It reminds me strongly of some of Sandra Brown’s steamy and adventurous series novels. I don’t mean that in a backhanded way: when Brown is good, she’s very good. And so Leone, and so is this book….
The Corset Diaries takes place during a reality television series set in Victorian times with our heroine playing an American duchess. I love the Victorian era, and adore the theme of American women who married for a title, so I settled down anticipating a wonderful read. Tessa Riordan is not a typical romance heroine. She’s…
I was never much of a Dynasty or Dallas watcher, but I do know that each show had more then their share of powerful, self-centered – and sometimes plain evil – characters. And struggling against all that badness were the “good” characters trying to survive in the backstabbing worlds they inhabited. Dynasty had Krystal and…
Witty banter does not a romance novel make. It is, however, what Elaine Fox serves up in her latest contemporary romance, a book that presents a light-hearted look at the singles scene and all the strange things couples are willing to do to get together. Laurel Kane, a reporter for the small publication DC Scene,…
It’s very challenging to write a category novel with serious depth to it since the rules of the format are strict and the page allotment low. Challenges notwithstanding, several authors, including Virginia Kantra, manage to do a wonderful job of bringing their series titles to life. While Kantra’s latest entry falls a touch flat, she…
Writing tortured characters without having them appear selfish or whiny is an art form in itself. This author exceeded my expectations and managed to write two tortured characters with such a depth of feeling that it almost brought tears to my eyes. I’m sure it helped that tortured heroes and heroines are my favorite kind!…
Beauty Queen starts out as a bit of a screwball comedy. Somewhere along the way, though, it turns into an insightful and emotionally intense romance between two imperfect people. It made me laugh and cry, in turns. The book opens with a hilarious want-ad that could only exist in the heroine’s imagination: Dynamic, Exciting, and…
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