I had really high hopes going into this book. I’d heard it was kind of James Bond-meets-contemporary-romance, and, liking both of those things quite a bit, I was excited. I’m also a fan of a good parody – emphasis on good. What I found in From Boardwalk With Love was something that strove for the…
Behind the Red Doors is the latest themed anthology from Harlequin. It contains three interlinked novellas by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Stephanie Bond, and Leslie Kelly. The Red Doors of the title is a store opened by two best friends; Jamie Ruskin and Faith Sherman. Jamie and Faith have come up with the idea of three…
Teresa Hill’s Bed of Lies is a sequel to two previous books about the McRae family, Twelve Days and The Edge of Heaven. Julie Morrison has built a completely new life for herself after leaving her abusive parents. She has a great job and a fiancé from a wealthy – and more importantly, stable –…
Many romance readers have never even heard of Lisa G. Brown, whose books are sometimes hard to find. But take it from me, they more than re-pay the effort of tracking them down. Billy Bob Walker Got Married is my favorite by her, but is followed very closely by Crazy For Lovin’ You. Brown also…
A moving read requires more than dumping page after page of misery on the characters. That’s a distinction Bed of Lies fails to make. This book is simply depressing. It’s more than 300 pages of misery topped off by a happy ending that’s about as believable as kissing a boo-boo and saying, “All better.” Zach…
The Last Bride in Ballymuir is a fairly average contemporary read with characters who inspire no great dislike – but aren’t what you’d call compelling either. It has an nice Irish setting, and mercifully, the author doesn’t attempt to write the whole thing in dialect (I’ve read a few too many heavy-handed dialect jobs lately)….
The very first romance novel I ever read was Shirlee Busbee’s Deceive Not My Heart. It remains my all-time favorite romance, and I still proudly display three older Busbees on my keeper shelf. So when her first contemporary was issued, I literally begged my editor for the chance to review it. Sadly, it wasn’t everything…
Kathryn Shay’s publisher has labeled Trust in Me a romance, but I have a hard time describing it as such. If I had a gun to my head and had to come up with my own label I’d say this one is closer to what’s loosely called Women’s Fiction than anything else. That’s not to…
Getting Lucky is a great big dessert of a book: it’s a blast to consume, but in the end it’s hardly a satisfying meal. Big bad Marine Zach Taylor comes home from his latest mission in South America to find his younger sister Glynnis gone and a sexy blonde in residence. Zach takes one look…
The Way You Look Tonight is one of what seems like an increasingly rare breed: it’s a contemporary romance. It’s not a comedy. It’s not romantic suspense. It’s not a women’s fiction or chick lit wannabe. It’s simply a nice story about two very nice people who like each other and slowly fall in love,…
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