Island Bliss
Island Bliss is an anthology of contemporary novellas all set on warm islands – it sounds the perfect distraction for this rainy gray winter I’m experiencing. If only the stories hadn’t been so, well, mediocre.
Please Remember This by Kathleen Gilles Seidel
This was a difficult review to write because I want so much to express my respect and admiration for this author’s body of work, but I’m confined to a review of perhaps her weakest book in a decade. Kathleen Gilles Seidel is one of my two or three favorite romance writers, a name that I…
Eden Burning by Elizabeth Lowell
If you’re a long-time Elizabeth Lowell fan, you’ve probably already read Fires of Eden, the 1986 Hawaii-set series romance on which this book, Eden Burning, was based. In the Author’s Note, Ms. Lowell indicates she has added pages, fleshed out scenes, added new ones, and had a chance to look again at the relationship between…
Smoke in Mirrors
I gave up on Jayne Anne Krentz’s novels for a time because they started to have a sameness about them. When this came up for review, I asked for it, wanting to see if her publisher switch might have made a difference. Fortunately, there’s no goofy water religion in this book like the last one…
First Comes Love by Christie Ridgway
What a way to start off the New Year! Although technically I read this in 2001, since it’s a 2002 book, I’m counting this as my first winner of 2002. Christie Ridgway writes a great tale of overcoming expectations and reputations and finding a perfect match in First Comes Love. Kitty Wilder plays the madam…
Head Over Heels
Veronica Davis goes home to Fossil intending to takeover the care of her murdered sister’s young daughter and sell the bar that Ronnie’s family has always owned. Cooper Blackstock is tending bar while trying to find evidence to prove his half-brother innocent of the murder. Cooper and Ronnie strike sparks off of each other from…
Sweet Nothings by Catherine Anderson
I selected this book by Catherine Anderson for review, not because I’m a fan, but because I’ve never read her. Before I was halfway through Sweet Nothings, I was down at my local UBS picking up as many of her backlist as they had on their shelves. Other than a teensy little quibble at the…
Heaven on Earth by Marilyn Pappano
Marilyn Pappano is a wonderful storyteller, and Heaven on Earth, her latest installment in the Bethlehem series, is proof of that. Even with the ever-present (though not prominent) angel gimmick, the perfect town of Bethlehem (so squeaky clean it bears little resemblance to reality), and at least one character per book with a soul-destroying problem…
The Spiral Path by Mary Jo Putney
In her second contemporary romance, Mary Jo Putney tells the tale of a memorable tortured hero and the woman who refuses to give up on him. While this sounds like a conventional love story, the special characters prove that, as always, Putney can be relied on to deliver something different. The result is a book…
Gemstone
I love second chance at love stories and I wish that publishers would do more of them. They offer the reader a chance to see couples work through conflict and come out stronger and more united than ever. Gemstone had some promising elements: A rich boy married a poor girl but the marriage was broken…
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