In the past, I have really enjoyed Elizabeth Lowell’s books. A Woman Without Lies is one of my favorite romances and I’ve enjoyed the Donovan family series as well. Unfortunately, Beautiful Dreamer didn’t live up to my expectations. Hope is a woman who dreams of water. She needs water for her ranch or else she’ll…
Gretchen Brannon, an incredibly sheltered young woman from tiny Jacobsville, Texas, is vacationing in Tangier with her friend Maggie before Maggie departs for her new job as personal assistant to the sheik of Qawi, a tiny Middle Eastern nation. When Maggie is called home for a family emergency, she suggests that Gretchen take her job…
I don’t know about you, but I’ve read way too many contemporary romances featuring virginal or sexually-unawakened heroines in their 30s. I’ve also read too many romances that either ignore race entirely or try to present all possible sides of the issue, robbing it of its power. Donna Hill has written a romance about sexually…
I’ve never been to Ireland, so I’m no expert, but I doubt that Irish people speak and think like passages out of a book of folklore. And that’s where the problem with Irish Moonlight lies: it paints all Irish people as folksy and whimsical and all Americans as uptight and materialistic. While the loving descriptions…
A famous, wealthy, fabulously attractive, professional football star driving down the road in his Aston Martin sees a sweaty woman marching down the side of the road in a beaver costume and decides to give her a ride. Attractive scenario – huh? It hardly inspired me to continue but this is, after all, Susan Elizabeth…
Next to the requisite HEA ending, it is probably the defining characteristic of most romance novels that there be some sort of conflict between the protagonists. Sometimes this conflict is internal, sometimes external, and sometimes a little of each, but nevertheless, it is always there. Without that conflict, what you have is just a story…
Do I like a bad boy? In real life – no way, but in fiction yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Beverly Barton says in the afterward to this book, that the redeemable bad boy is one of her favorite characters. She has done some really good ones in her Silhouette titles and Johnny Mack…
The Attraction Factor features a fun, intelligent, and strong heroine with a zany taste in jewelry and a difficult family situation on her hands. If the hero of this book hadn’t been such a nitwit, I would have enjoyed it. Julie Gates once had a crush on Marc Johnson, when he was an English teacher…
Ten years ago, Julie Gates had a humongous crush on her high school English teacher Marc Johnson. She doodled his name in the margins of her books and even took one of those “Attraction Factor” quizzes one finds in every issue of Seventeen magazine. The results of the quiz were a stunning 98% – they…
Better Than Ever is part of Kensington’s ambitious Encanto line, which features the same story in English and Spanish. In previous AAR reviews the consensus seems to be that the stories are okay, but not great. This installment also fits that description. It’s been seven years since Maya Alfonso has seen Alex Martinez. Alex and…
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