Christie Ridgway is a wonderful new discovery for me. In fact, I liked Wish You Were Here so much, I’ve glommed two of her previous novels (and I’ve already read one and liked it). Wish You Were Here is a sweet romance that can be funny, touching and frustrating all within a few pages. Yeager…
The lure of the mermaid has haunted fishermen through the ages, and even though the heroine of Sea Siren is flesh and blood like the rest of us mortals, her story, and that of the man she loves, is nevertheless a pleasure to read. A mermaid sits perched in the distance, waving to passersby, and…
My used bookstore has a table where they sell older series romances for $.10 each. I have bought quite a few from that table. I’ve purchased my share of duds and bought a few that were just so-so, but for only $.10 each, I figure I can take a chance. Recently, I bought The Trouble…
This is the type of story I would be afraid to pick up if it didn’t have the name Susan Elizabeth Phillips on the cover, because there aren’t many authors out there that could get me to suspend my disbelief long enough to read a romance about the First Lady. For one thing, those of…
A combination of “everything but the kitchen sink” plotting and unlikable characters sunk this book. After reading a continuing series of misfortunes and calamities, this reviewer was exhausted by the end of the story. Both the Creed’s and the Blackthorne’s are Texas rancher families. The Creed ranch is surrounded by Blackthorne land, and the Blackthornes…
Far Harbor is one of those books that you should read when you want a nice, steady plot and a good sense of atmosphere and are not in the mood for a lot of storm and stress. Savannah Townsend returned to Far Harbor after her divorce. Dan O’Halloran is her sister, Raine’s, law partner and…
Catching Kelly is, in a word, zany. Unfortunately, heroine Kelly isn’t. She spends the majority of the story having herself a pity party and whining more often than my three-year-old. If not for her kooky relatives and the terrific hero, this book would have been a disaster. Kelly Burke escaped her eccentric relatives eight years…
One of the most profound things I ever heard anyone say about the reading experience is that “the relationship between the reader and the text is not casual.” In other words, the reader brings her own life story to the tale she’s about to read. That must explain part of my enjoyment as I read…
One thing that makes romance novels different from literary fiction is that they seldom have a serious message. The new light contemporary Handyman has one and, much as I disliked this book, I happen to agree with it. Handyman‘s premise is, in a nutshell: men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but sometimes…
The very first thing I noticed about Christina Skye’s 2000 Kisses was that it was not Y2K compliant. I started reading 2000 Kisses on New Year’s weekend – a romance novel with a Y2K tie-in seemed like the perfect thing to read at that point. But it also made a very basic mistake glaringly obvious:…
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