Table for Two is Dara Girad’s debut novel and a promising start for a new author. The book’s heroine is a plus-sized woman with lots of emotional baggage of which she remains unaware while the hero is a chef obsessed with food. Cassie Graham is a self-help guru who helps people deal with their social…
Maggy Forrest’s husband Lyle is a rich but ultra-nasty publishing tycoon. For most of their marriage, he has controlled her through threats to turn their son against her, monitors her movements and possessions, and is frequently physically and mentally cruel to her. They have an 11-year-old son David, who appears to idolize his father and…
Rachel Gibson is one of my very few auto-buy authors and I grabbed her new book to read as soon as my pre-ordered copy arrived in the mail. Daisy’s Back in Town is a book that is built around a couple of romance novel clichés. Let’s get those out of the way. This is a…
Deirdre Martin admirably dodges the sophomore slump in her second romance, Fair Play. A terrific read, it is, by turns, fast, compelling, frustrating, devastating, annoying, thrilling, but never less than engrossing. I hung on every page and finished it in one sitting. In Theresa Falconetti’s book, Michael Dante has three strikes against him. He’s Italian,…
Someone to Love Me is a rewrite of Francis Ray’s first romance, 1992’s Fallen Angel. It is the story of Michelle Grant and Brad Jamison and in this new version their romance is more detailed and complete. Michelle Grant is a successful commercial real estate agent. In spent the past nine years working her way…
I can’t quite bring myself to call protagonist Jackson Parrish a hero when jerk, alternately modified by obnoxious, arrogant, and (most aptly of all), juvenile do a far better job of accurately representing the character and his actions. Add in the very familiar setting and premise (big city woman returns to small Texas town), the…
Marilyn Pappano’s Small Wonders, part of her long-running Bethlehem series, engrosses from start. The story centers around scam artist Cole Jackson and Leanne Wilson, the woman he left behind to raise his son, as well as the citizens of small-town Bethlehem. Cole’s neighbors are hopping mad that he divested them of a quarter of a…
Some Kind of Wonderful is a generic, mediocre title for an equally generic book. The one-size-fits-all-cover features a man and woman on the beach at sunset, and it only adds to the generic feel (especially since the hero and heroine don’t ever walk on the beach together at sunset in this book). You would never…
Since I can’t imagine that too many people will find themselves buying Key of Valor without having read the first two books in the trilogy, knowing where I stand on those initial installments might help you decide how my grade for this one might align with yours. Like reviewer Donna Newman, my grade for Key…
A feisty P.I. and an uptight investment banker take to the road in License to Thrill, a lightweight, high energy romp that zips along with equal parts humor and heart. It’s not the type of story that takes itself too seriously. If I tell you the heroine’s name is Charlee Champagne, her mother’s name is…
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