I read the blurb on the back of Wild About You. “Oh boy,” I thought, “Miss Ditzy and Mr. Stuffy meet, hate each other at first sight, then fall in love. Been there, read that, didn’t like it.” I was wrong. I read the book straight through and loved it. I loved the story, and…
Contemporary romances don’t get much better than Take A Chance On Me. It’s got the thinnest suspense plot in the universe, but the characters! Such wonderful characters! But wait there’s more. You want sexual tension? This book drips with it. How about a love scene that is everything that a love scene should be? There’s…
In Love and War is a collection of military stories from three authors who take different approaches to the material. One is flat-out action, one is more relationship driven, and the third is a combination of the two. Together they make for a good, but not great, read for fans of military romance.
Let me start by saying that in the past, Lynne Graham has been a guilty pleasure read for me. Yes, her plots are often stunningly similar: her heroes are inevitably some insanely rich tycoon of Mediterranean origin, her heroines virginal working class girls, and the relationship necessarily volatile, and yet I must blushingly admit to…
(note: This book has been republished as When the Stars Fall Down) Anne Stuart’s Banish Misfortune is a classic. Winner of the Golden Medallion (now known as the RITA) for Best Single Title Romance of 1985, it remains impressive nearly two decades later. I first read it in 2000, and while it was dated, with…
I picked up 7 Days and 7 Nights eagerly because I had recently been pondering two romance novel topics: the dearth of interesting workplace romances, and the ripeness of the “reality programming” trend as a romance backdrop. This novel, the story of two competing talk radio DJs (one male, one female, of course) closed up…
Confession time: I’ve never read a Susan Johnson book before. I’m not sure why since Johnson has been writing romances for quite a long time, but somehow I never picked one up. I was happy to review Hot Pink so that unfortunate situation could be rectified. But perhaps Hot Pink wasn’t the right Johnson to…
Are you looking for a powerful, gut-wrenching read, the kind of story that’s destined to stick with you for a long time? This is not the book for you. Like your romances to be really dramatic and emotional? Keep moving; there’s nothing to see here. Want to read about strong, really deep characters who change…
I’m not a frequent reader of anthologies because they can be so uneven, but Heat Wave may well be the best one I’ve yet encountered. Intelligent, funny, sexy and romantic, the three stories by authors Jennifer Archer, Katie MacAlister, and Sheridon Smythe each cover a different two-week portion of a reality dating game show being…
Last year I read Jill Winters’s debut, Plum Girl, and thought it showed potential, so I asked to review her second book. Even though Blushing Pink is a somewhat better by comparison and allows Winters’s humorous voice to shine through more clearly, it has a number of flaws that made it no more than an…
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