Mulligan Stew
In my time reviewing, I’ve given plenty of D’s but very few F’s. I have a strict personal policy on what makes a book an F for me: A book can bore me or annoy me and still have a shot at a D, but in order for it to get an F, it has…
High Meadow
There was recently some discussion on the boards about how this book was similar to an earlier Wolf title, Beloved Stranger. I was a little concerned about reviewing it, since, having never read anything by Wolf before, the similarities would mean nothing to me. I needn’t have worried. If the story is derivative, that’s the…
Dreaming of You by Dixie Kane
When I finished Dreaming of You, I sat down to write my review and couldn’t think of a single good thing to say about the book. I couldn’t think of a single bad thing to say about it, either. It’s that kind of book – inoffensive, bland, and ordinary. In other words, utterly average. Nicholas…
Body Check by Deidre Martin
Deidre Martin scores a hat trick her first time out with this fantastic contemporary romance that pairs a publicist with a hockey player. Body Check combines sports and romance in a way that reminded me of Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ It Had To Be You, but Deirdre Martin has her own style and voice. Janna MacNeil…
Improper English
Helen Fielding has a lot to answer for. With the success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, a myriad of authors have felt free to trot out the insecurities, dirty laundry and occasionally messy love lives of their heroines with impunity. Katie MacAlister, though her writing is very clever and adroit, doesn’t give much in the way…
Charming the Highlander by Janet Chapman
Never heard of Janet Chapman? That’s about to change, right now. If her debut novel, Charming the Highlander, is any indication, her name is going to soar quickly to the top of the discerning reader’s list of must-buy authors. Charming the Highlander is set in contemporary northwestern Maine, and tells the story of Greylen MacKeage…
Gentleman Caller
There are one and three-quarters stories in this book. Hey, buy one, get one free, right? Well, not quite. The problem is that at points the three-quarters of a story threatens to overtake the main story, which has its own rough spots to begin with. Maxine Bleckner runs a very different sort of home-based business:…
This Time Love by Elizabeth Lowell
This Time Love was originally published as the 1986 series romance Sequel. It has been “extensively rewritten” by the author and is now being released in hardcover. I’ve never read Sequel and have no idea what changes have been made to the original novel (except the hero’s use of the f-word, which is surely new)….
Reality Check
In Leslie Carroll’s Reality Check, advertising copywriter Liz Pemberley and her two best friends sign up for a new reality show called Bad Date. On the show, contestants share stories of their worst dating experiences and the person with the most horrendous stories will be voted the million-dollar winner at the end of the season….
Twisted Shadows
Twisted Shadows began with a scene that grabbed me and drew me in. Unfortunately, the book did not live up to its early potential. Too many characters and a breakneck pace marred a potentially interesting story; it’s tough to enjoy a book when so much is going on that the reader gets lost. Samantha Carroll’s…
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