Contemporary Romance

  • Nobody’s Angel

    I predict Nobody’s Angel could join a list of books (if there is such a list) that includes titles that readers either loved or hated, with me tending toward the latter. Books like Sarah’s Child or authors like Dara Joy. However you feel about them, you feel it strongly. Patricia Rice’s latest will most likely…

  • Plain Jane

    I’d never read a book by Fern Michaels, so I was glad when I got the opportunity to review Plain Jane. Unfortunately, this book fails at practically every level – it has overly cute dogs, an unlikable heroine and a hero who defies description. Twelve years after Connie Bryan, the popular Homecoming Queen at LSU,…

  • The Wrong Child

    The Wrong Child started off as a great family drama that I thought might earn a special spot on my keeper shelf. That would have been wonderful, as I’ve read a string of “eh” books lately. A turn worthy of the Lifetime Channel, however, steered this one down to a C+ for me. Abbie Bernard…

  • Blue Moon by Dalia Vargas

    Oh dear. Here I was hoping that the Encanto line meant there would be some well-written stories about Latinos. Well, they got the Latino part right, but aside from only one or two books I’ve liked, they have to work on the “well-written” part of the equation – most have been rather mediocre. Blue Moon…

  • This Perfect Kiss

    This Perfect Kiss is a really fun book. It’s very contemporary, with characters that actually seem to live on the same planet we do – at least most of the time. It’s also funny in a very outlandish way. Occasionally it really goes over the top, but most of the time I was having way…

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