This is a difficult book to grade because while After the Fire definitely showcases everything consistently good about Kathryn Shay’s work, it also highlights the things that repeatedly make her a frustrating read for me. An excellent writer with strong command of plot, character development, and a skill for portraying real, multidimensional relationships, Shay often…
The Wedding Diaries sounded like a book that could be kind of fun. A poor little rich girl suddenly loses her fortune and her fiancé, becomes a nanny for a sexy real estate mogul, and antics (both sexual and otherwise) ensue. It was fun up to a point; it was quick, light reading, and I…
Undressed is the sort of richly-detailed contemporary that’s well-suited for readers who don’t ordinarily like contemporaries. While this is a subdued book in a small-town setting, it takes a number of risks and grapples with some difficult issues that more superficially exotic books often sidestep. Although at times the book is a bit slow-paced, the…
It’s purely amazing the variety and complexity of stories that can flow from one author’s pen – they don’t call her Queen Nora for nothing. But while I loved a lot about Key of Light, Nora Roberts’ first in a new trilogy dealing with Celtic gods and goddesses and those pesky spells that ensnare them,…
Return Engagement is a terrific light contemporary romance, a nice big read for anyone who’s been missing this type of book. There’s no suspense plot and no misery and angst, just 400 plus pages packed with story and teeming with characters. There’s so much happening that not even a few standard issue plot elements, namely…
Night Falls Like Silk is the sequel to Kathleen Eagle’s The Night Remembers. I haven’t read the earlier book, and if this one is any indication, I don’t really want to – even though I’ve enjoyed the author in the past. Night Falls Like Silk is – well, it’s not very clear. It’s misty. It’s…
Stephanie Bond’s first book for Avon, Kill the Competition, is a surprisingly flat offering from an author adept at zippy dialogue and fast pacing. This book has neither. Belinda Hennessy moved to Atlanta to start over after a disastrous attempt at matrimony in Cincinnati. Taking a job at the Archer Furniture Company, she joins a…
I have read Karen Templeton before and enjoyed her, so I was glad to have the opportunity to review her newest, Playing for Keeps. At the very least, I knew the book would be readable and chock full of down-to-earth characters. Templeton has a knack for making the mundane details of the everyday come to…
Karen Kendall reminds me a bit of Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Someone Like Him is a love story between two very mismatched people who struggle to find common ground. A lot of humor and snappy dialogue kept me turning the pages, while the touching emotion of the love story crept up on me. Nice. Lavender “Vinnie”…
It’s not often that I come across a romance novel in which the hero and heroine don’t spend enough time together – alone – in the book. Regrettably, The Snow Bride is one of those books. Jenna Campbell is a practical woman who just so happens to be in love with her boss. After six…
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