The Trials of Angela is a romantic comedy that isn’t very funny and isn’t very romantic. Both the hero and the heroine make unethical decisions, and their neighbors and families, especially the older generation, make unkind and bigoted pronouncements left and right. Unless you’re in desperate need of a book with a large collection of…
One of the nice things about this book is that it’s about two successful, independent professionals. They’re not spies, military heroes, or foreign royalty. They’re businesspeople, and though they’re quite a bit more wealthy and sophisticated than most thirty-somethings I know, the author made me believe in them as real people. A year ago, Angela…
Forget the reality checks, because right off the bat I have to tell you that this book won’t stand up to them. But, if you can suspend disbelief and roll with the fantasy, you’ll probably enjoy spending a few hours with Jackson Stone, mega movie star, and Rachel Marsh, widowed owner of an Arizona dude…
If I was forced to make a short, really short, list of outstanding traditional Regency Romance authors, Joan Wolf is one who would be on that list in a flash. Her Regency Romances – most notably His Lordship’s Mistress and A London Season – are classics and worth the trouble of hunting for. With Silverbridge,…
If you have a kind of morbid curiosity to see for yourself just how low a good writer can go, you may want to pick up this book. Otherwise, don’t bother. A distasteful exercise in superficiality and casual sex, Blonde Heat tells the story (it’s not really a plot) of three high school friends who…
This book wasn’t perfect. There was a thing or two that I didn’t love, and perhaps a few more that might bother others. But there was no doubt in my mind that The Edge Of Heaven was a keeper, despite those little imperfections. The plot was compelling, the love story moving, and I didn’t want…
Texas! Chase was my first keeper. It was also the first book I ever re-read. It has everything I require in a keeper: a strong heroine, a sexy if slightly tortured hero and realistic problems – plus emotion, humor, hot love scenes, and absolutely wonderful secondary characters. Even though this is the second book in…
Hometown Girl poses a question to the reader: Be ye an oil man, or be ye a tree hugger? How you answer may influence your evaluation of Hometown Girl, a book that takes on a controversial environmental issue, then offers a silly resolution to this serious and topical conflict. Ah, conflict. Every story’s gotta have…
Imagine this: a young woman in her purple taffeta dress, wearing a small diamond engagement ring is standing on her front porch waiting for her fiancé to take her to the Fall Formal. Instead, another young man approaches and hands her a letter from her little sister and her fiancé, telling her they’re in love…
Finding the perfect beach book can be a real challenge. After all, since the risk of finding yourself on the beach or at the pool with nothing that catches your attention is just too horrible to contemplate, you probably tuck four or five books into your bag. With the release of Face the Fire, Nora…
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