Sandra Brown’s Sandra Brown’s In A Class By Itself is a guilty pleasure if I ever read one. It’s a reissue from 1984 and make no mistakes, it’s got “Eighties” written all over it. It’s a curious mixture of some of the most ridiculous romance clichés packed in a very entertaining parcel I felt compelled…
The dust jacket of In A Class By Itself says, “classic Sandra Brown,” and for once the dust jacket tells the truth. It was originally released as part of the Loveswept series of contemporary romances in 1984, and for those of us who enjoy Brown’s old Loveswepts, it’s a happy discovery. Their ten-year high school…
What do you when you’re reading a pretty average book when the hero has a sudden personality transplant and becomes a jerk? Normally I’d give up on the book, unfortunately I had to keep reading this one in order to review it. Terry Hart has her reasons for disliking all members of Her Majesty’s Canadian…
It’s getting very hard to judge a book by its cover nowadays. With many publishers attempting to imitate the success brought on by cartoon covers, it’s not only difficult to tell the books apart, it’s almost impossible for every book to match the cartoon/light tone the covers suggest. Husband Material has a fluffy opening that…
When it comes to Susan Elizabeth Phillips, I absolutely love It Had to be You and Lady Be Good but I have had less luck with Nobody’s Baby But Mine and Dream a Little Dream. Still, like many of her fans, I have been looking forward to catching up with Molly Somerville and Kevin Tucker…
I often complain about the “too good to be true” characters in most romances. In The Trouble With Mary the heroine is a college dropout who can’t zip her jeans, has a chocolate addiction, and leaves dirty dishes in the sink. And the hero has a Rolaids dependency. These are my people! Mary’s trouble in…
The most remarkable thing about this book is its choice of heroine. Nine years ago, Tessa MacGuire and Sam Tucker were high-school sweethearts certain they were destined to spend their lives together. But one Christmas when Tessa was away, Sam got drunk and allowed himself to be seduced by Tessa’s jealous younger sister Alli. Alli…
Recently, I read Showdown by Patricia Potter from the In Our Dreams anthology and absolutely loved it. Therefore I was looking forward to reviewing Potter’s latest tale, Broken Honor. While I liked the story, I felt it was just missing a few things that would have made it perfect. At the end of World War…
Grady Sullivan is a private detective who has been hired to guard the extremely ancient Archie Peevers, a toilet-paper millionaire, from the machinations of his greedy relatives. Archie has been amusing himself at his heirs’ expense by changing his will every month or so, but now he fears he’s gone too far and one of…
As with most anthologies, Something to Celebrate is a blend of good and and not-so-good storytelling. In this case, all three stories center around the December holidays, and of course, plenty of romance.
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