Feel the Heat begins Kathryn Shay’s America’s Bravest trilogy, and what a beginning it is. An enjoyable relationship between two very likable people makes this one a winner; I’ve already reread it once. Feel the Heat and its sequels The Man Who Loved Christmas and Code of Honor put Shay on my auto-buy list. When…
I first fell in love with Sharon and Tom Curtis when I read The Windflower four years ago. I bought their entire backlist but didn’t read anything that could rival, or even compare to, that masterpiece. That is, until I read The Golden Touch, written under the name Robin James. The plot of The Golden…
They said it couldn’t be done in a romance novel. Then they said that if someone did write it, no one would read it; it wouldn’t be commercial. Who are they? Both readers and writers who posted to romance listservs on the internet saying that a heroine couldn’t have an abortion in a romance novel…
Signet lists Eric Jerome Dickey’s book on its spine as fiction but I think that may be because the writer is an African American male and no one expects such a person to be writing romance novels. However, this novel meets every test for the romance genre ever concocted. Dickey writes about emotions, relationships, love,…
Maggy O’Brien’s life seems far from the stuff of romantic fantasy when we first meet her in Barbara Bretton’s The Day We Met. She’s the divorced and harried mother of two, coping with the news that her ex-husband is about to remarry, and hoping not to get caught in her pajamas as she drives her…
Warning: If you are looking for a story similar to Sleepless in Seattle, this book will not deliver that lighthearted and funny feeling. I grinned when I read the setting of this story because Sweet Grass County is adjacent to the county I live in, and Big Timber, Montana does exist. I’ve been there many…
There are some books that are very hard for me to grade. Some elements of the plot hold zero appeal to me and turn me off, but I know other readers will love them. This is one of those books. One of the things that you should love to read about if you want to…
It is always a delight to read a new novel by Nora Roberts, but seemingly she may be on the brink of writing the best novels of her career. The deep, rich characterizations in Jewels of the Sun drive the plot and give life to the Irish backdrop. Roberts easily holds her reign as the…
Josephine Evans and Cole Dumanski, the protagonists of Prince Charming, hated one another on sight. She thought that he was a crude, loudmouthed chauvinist. He thought that she was a prissy snob. I heartily agreed with both of them. Cole is a Mississippi River towboat captain who desperately needs a cook for his next New…
I enjoy reading and I always begin a book with anticipation and one thought in my mind: “This is going to be a good story.” With Inseparable, that thought did not last through the prologue. After I read where Mike Greywolf’s father and grandparents are murdered in a torrent of blood, gore and overwriting, it…
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