Bait and Switch is a story about two very different twins who trade places. Appropriately for a story about opposites, the book is also full of them: Two good heroes and two bland heroines. One enjoyable plot and one deeply annoying one. Grant Mitchell, better known as Mitch, is an upstanding Atlanta cop. His twin…
Can someone tell me what class contemporary romance writers are attending or what deal with the devil they’re signing? Is there a certificate they can earn if they write a romance with an under-forty, commitment phobic, billionaire hero and a ditsy, overly sweet, trust-fund baby heroine? Do they get extra credit if he’s a jerk…
Knock Me Off My Feet is one of those books that takes a little patience. The problems for me included an initial characterization of the heroine that definitely trod way too deeply into “wacky heiress” territory and some real plot implausibilities that pulled me out of the story on more than a few occasions. She…
Like Chance Mackenzie from Linda Howard’s Mackenzie series, Seth Quinn proved to be such a popular character from Nora Roberts’ Chesapeake Bay series that fans asked for and now have the chance to read his love story. Sea Swept happens to be one of my all-time keepers, and although Chesapeake Blue doesn’t earn keeper status…
When I learned Nora Roberts hadn’t originally planned to write Seth Quinn’s story but changed her mind because readers clamored for it, I got a sinking, “Oh no” feeling – my opinion being that connected books should end where the author originally intended. But then I read Chesapeake Blue and have been “buzzing” about it…
Maybe I’m really the Scrooge here, but it would be hard to find a more nauseating pile of sappy sweetness than this latest effort by Janet Dailey. However, you certainly can’t accuse anybody of false advertising, because when you title a book Scrooge Wore Spurs, it’s pretty clear what you’re going to get: cute kids;…
Labor of Love is a small press book and, apparently, Carol Costa’s first work of fiction. It’s pretty clear why no bigger publisher picked this one up. What’s less clear is why Avalon is charging $19.95 for 184 pages of not-very-well-written story. Margo Conroy is the head of the display department at Dixon’s, a large…
Crossing The Line tells the story of a strong woman who has been able (out of both choice and necessity) to cross the line in a variety of ways: race, sex, education and age. Thea Morgan, the heroine, is an intricately drawn portrait of a woman forced to deal with her past, and thus prepare…
Into the Night is a tough book to grade. On the one hand it’s Brockmann. The humor, action, and snappy dialogue are all present. On the other hand, the book has problems. None of its problems make it a terrible read, but all of them, taken together, make Into the Night less than totally satisfactory….
It never bodes well when it takes me literally two months to read a book, but that’s how long it took to get through Leaping Hearts. It wasn’t bad enough, like a train wreck, that I had to keep reading, but it wasn’t good enough to keep me intrigued either. Arlington “A.J.” Sutherland attends a…
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