In Loving Jessie, two childhood friends fall for each other. Despite this not-used-enough premise, the book suffers from sheer unbelievability. Some of the plotlines are too old-fashioned for a contemporary romance. Throw in weak characterization and blatant head-hopping and the result is a story that’s both bland and annoying. Jessica Sinclair, Matt Latimer, and Reilly…
Princess Julia Sebastiani of the Mediterranean kingdom of Montebello has been threatened. In an attempt to learn more about those who mean Julia harm, the FBI plans to parade a decoy Julia on a highly-publicized tour through the U.S. FBI agent Laurie Lewis, a sweet Nebraska farm girl who happens to look just like Julia,…
Sheltered in His Arms is a spin-off from Tara Taylor Quinn’s Superromance trilogy Shelter Valley Stories, but you don’t need to have read the preceding books to enjoy this one. I hadn’t, and I enjoyed this story very much. Cassie Tate is a woman scorned, and you know what they say about that kind of…
Generally when I review a book I only glance at the back cover blurb to get a brief idea of what the book is about. I want to have a bit of an idea as to the setting and plot but don’t want to prejudice my review in any way with expectations. Sometimes, even with…
Hide and Seek had the potential for a truly enjoyable tale. Delanie Eastman’s sister has been kidnapped by an evil drug lord. She must outwit the bad guys and get out of the jungle while lusting madly after Kyle Wright, who isn’t everything he appears to be. A similar plot to the highly successful and…
Girl is stranded away from home, boy takes her home to spend holidays with his family, they fall in love, but have to deal with careers and relocation before they can live happily ever after. That is basically the plot of Feliz Navidad, with about 200 pages of minutiae added to fill up the rest…
Feel free to judge this book by its cover. Ordinarily, I’m pretty fond of cartoon covers, but this one has six scary cartoon babies on it, with a couple kissing in the background. While there isn’t actually an unlikely scene like this in the book, the plot is just as far-fetched, impossible, and downright dumb….
Georgia Bockhoven has written a sequel to the enjoyable The Beach House. Another Summer is equally enjoyable and the four couples whose stories are told in this latest work are as entertaining as those in the earlier book. The Beach House is the centerpiece of this book. The house has existed for almost a century…
I asked for this book since I had not reviewed Barbara Delinsky before and it had a sports background which I love. Fast Courting is a re-print of a book first published in 1983 and is dated in certain ways. Old movies show their age in outdated clothing and hair styles. Fast Courting showed its…
“All righty then,” the reviewer said with a weary sigh. “Rip out about half the pages from this book, and you’ve got a pretty good read. Those lost 200 pages are naught but filler,” she moaned, rubbing her bleary eyes, “and do nothing but slow the pace of the book down to a crawl.” Well,…
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