On her 29 birthday, Loretta D’Angelo endures a torturous afternoon with her family in Long Island, listening to them tell her how she needs to find a man. Unmarried and unattached, Loretta is happy enough with her single status. Sure, she wouldn’t mind meeting someone, but she’s not exactly on the prowl for Mr. Right….
I thought I would like The Love of a Cowboy. It’s a contemporary romance, with no suspense or crime elements. It’s pretty well-written, eschewing purple prose in its several original and steamy love scenes. And it’s set in rural central Idaho, where I lived for years. But I did not like this book. Dahlia Montgomery’s…
Jill Marie Landis’ first contemporary novel is awesome. Her publisher is marketing the book as women’s fiction, but the story of Carly Nolan and Jake Montgomery is a great romance. The back-story for Lover’s Lane is this: Carly Nolan has spent much of her life on the run. After running away from her last foster…
That’s Amore is an Italian road romance that gets off to a rocky start, but eventually settles into a pleasantly light and frothy read. Neither the hero nor heroine makes a good first impression. Anne Marie Jackson seems to be too much the typical wimpy librarian who is so common in romances. A California divorcee,…
I am not a reader who sweats the small stuff. If the story has a couple of undotted i’s or a badly crossed t, but is otherwise all right, I’ll likely let it go with a grumble or two. But Loving You suffers from such a major plotting flaw that reading it was not a…
Diana Palmer’s distinct style is displayed in good form in Lawless. If you enjoy – guilty or not – older, male, law enforcement heroes and younger, virginal, women in trouble, this may be the book for you. And if you regularly enjoy Diana Palmer, you won’t be able to pass on this one, and why…
And Then He Kissed Me, Patti Berg’s first Superleader for Avon, has a terrific opening line: “Without a doubt, Juliet Bridger had lost her mind.” It seems as though Juliet has just about everything – she’s rich, a well-known actress, and a bestselling mystery novelist. She also has an ex-husband named Garrett who’s in prison…
Regan Forest is an author I read quite a bit of when I started reading romance. I enjoyed her atmospheric settings, ranging from Wales to France to Arizona ghost towns, her unusual characters, and often paranormal-influenced plots. In the mood for that kind of read, I ordered several books on her backlist I hadn’t yet…
I love Jayne Ann Krentz books from the 1990s. Her earliest books don’t work for me because they seem a bit dated now, and her most recent books seem to have lost the spark that characterizes her best work. But my hardback keeper shelf is heavily weighted down with books like Trust Me, Absolutely, Positively,…
Magnolia Moon has been a hard book to review, so hard I’ve been wrestling with the review for more than a month after finishing the book. I enjoyed reading it, and when I had to set it down at the end of a night, I spent much of the next day looking forward to getting…
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