How much you like Breaking All The Rules will probably depend on whether you think the heroine and her mentor are eccentric and spirited, or strange and annoying. As you can tell from the grade above, I, unfortunately, could see little worthy of adulation or even amusement, and the story was, for the most part,…
Stef Ann Holm moves to contemporary romance in Girls Night, and the result is one of the most delightful books I have read this year. It’s got it all: an endearing heroine, a wonderful hero, blessedly un-bratty teenage characters, and a senior citizen secondary romance that is sweet as can be. The town of Blue…
The Ways of Grace: I have a feeling that readers are going to be sharply divided on this one. For some, it will be the beautiful story of a vulnerable woman who seems to need saving, but who, in fact saves the tortured hero. Others will see it as an emotionally manipulative mix of too-pat…
Judges of the Bulwyer-Lytton contest, have I got bad opening sentence for you! “The Harley roared and bucked and writhed under his muscular thighs as wildly as a fresh border whore. And since he was half-Mexican and half-Anglo, and oversexed to boot, Roque Mayo was just the man to know.” Okay, so it’s two sentences,…
River Road is the name of a trashy, outrageous nighttime soap opera whose bad girl is played by a beautiful actress named Julia Summers. (I’m guessing that the name of her character, Amanda, is a tribute to my own favorite trashy nighttime soap, Melrose Place.) Julia has just achieved the dream of a lifetime: she…
Girls Night, Stef Ann Holm’s first contemporary romance, features a widowed heroine with two young daughters who is struggling to keep her Washington state coffee shop afloat. Jillene McDermott is too preoccupied with motherhood and overdue bills to think about dating and sex. Then true crime writer Vince Tremonti comes back in town, and the…
Some years ago I reviewed Charlotte Hughes’ The Last Southern Belle, one of the last Loveswepts to be published before Bantam ended the line. I found it light and cute, but didn’t give the author much thought thereafter. Somehow I missed the buzz about Charlotte Hughes being the “next Janet Evanovich,” so I had no…
Elda Minger’s The Fling features Big Misunderstandings, small misunderstandings, one Big Secret, and several other plot contrivances, including a studied unwillingness to communicate on the part of both protagonists. In spite of that, I confess I enjoyed the book a good deal. Kate Prescott is the responsible one in her family, and so it is…
Kasey Michaels’ Be My Baby Tonight was a fun surprise. I have read and enjoyed her traditional Regency Romances, but had never read one of her contemporary releases. So I requested to review this book without knowing much about it. I soon realized two things: the hero is a baseball player and the sport is…
Zack Jackson is a guy with a problem. With two flops behind him, the once hot film director and former child star has, as his Hollywood money man tells him, just one more chance to make a hit film. Fortunately for Zack, he’s dead certain the perfect vehicle is a true story he found in…
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