Lori Foster is capable of writing good romance – The Winston Brothers was a solid B read for me (we didn’t post a review for this book since we’d reviewed each of the three short stories when they were published in earlier anthologies). She also writes great love scenes. At times, though, she affixes them…
Boy meets girl. Boy proposes to girl. Boy and girl are celebrating engagement when girl’s aunt walks in on them. Chaos – and fun – ensues. Mother of the Bride is an amusing story about growing up, falling in love, and getting married. The twist is, it isn’t the bride who goes through all this….
I have to admit, I was thinking of giving up on Deborah Smith. Though I loved A Place to Call Home, I haven’t been wowed by a book of hers since, and I was losing my enthusiasm for her writing. But I had this old Loveswept, Hold on Tight, in my TBR, and I thought,…
I’ll admit there is a kind of sick, perverted pleasure to be had in a screamingly bad book. And while this incredible howler by Melanie George definitely delivers some twisted thrills, it is ultimately totally and completely ridiculous. The plot is nonsensical, the stereotypes insulting, and the errors both of logic and fact …
Man at Work is a pleasant, entertaining contemporary romance with a message about snobbery. A good message, but one written with a heavy hand that almost got in the way of the story. Marcy Paglinowski is an up-and-coming young lawyer who has fought hard to get where she’s at. She grew up in terrible surroundings…
Remember all those Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn movies? Charismatic characters speaking intelligent, witty, funny lines? Of if you can’t remember that far back and haven’t seen the videos, maybe you’ve caught a recent episode of West Wing. In both cases just about every conversation sparkles and the writers treat the viewers like they’re smart enough to…
Did you ever think that if you just won the Powerball lottery, life would be perfect? At the beginning of Sand Castles, Jim Hodene wins millions, and he and his wife Wendy are set for life. Well, they would be if this were a one-sentence story, but then someone sees Jim’s picture in the paper…
Marry Me, Maddie starts out similarly to the movie Hope Floats: Maddie Summers hoodwinks her procrastinating fiance onto a local talk show to give him the choice of marrying her on the spot or saying goodbye. Uptight Jeff declines the impromptu ceremony, and after recovering from the embarrassment, Maddie decides to focus on her dreams…
During the vast majority of the time I spent reading Sun Valley I was in one of two states – confused or exasperated. The confusion comes because Sun Valley is the last of a trilogy, and while I’ve read many a book by itself that was part of a trilogy and been perfect at home,…
If you are in the mood for a nice thick book with an intense story that keeps you absorbed for several days, this is the perfect book. Richards carefully draws her readers into her characters’ world and involves them so deeply they’ll not want to leave. Niccolo Andreani and Megan Donaghue meet in the parking…
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