Sandra Kitt is excellent in writing about the races in all of the varied forms we experience them today. Her heroine, Dallas Oliver, is biracial. She and her white best friend, Valerie, are now in their early thirties and have been bound together since they were in grade school. Dallas is a journalist for a…
Romeo & Julia is the antithesis of the “sweet savage romance,” which is why I enjoyed it as much as I did. There’s not a lot of ugly, melodramatic conflict. There’s no overwhelming “I hate you, but I lust after you anyway” passion. Instead, there’s a hero who’s quite a bit younger than the heroine,…
You know you have read a good book when, three days after finishing it, your head is still spinning with questions and ideas that the book has raised. In addition to making me really think about issues of color lines (both outside and within the African-American community), Skin Deep makes it pleasant to tackle these…
When Venus Fell is one of the best books I’ve read all year. Venus Arinelli, former child prodigy and concert pianist, now plays in dives all around the country, lives in an RV and avoids the government. She also protects her fragile sister Ella. Venus distrusts the government because her father felt that it had…
When I was a girl, my grandmother used to give me paint-by-number kits for Christmas. I’d follow all the instructions and when I was finished I could see that what I’d accomplished was obviously a picture of something, but I never fooled myself into thinking I was Leonardo da Vinci. Reading Second Chance reminded me…
I’m just crazy about Harry – Harry O’Dell, that is, the hero of Suzanne Brockmann’s latest blockbuster. He’s a foul-mouthed, rough-edged, rumpled FBI agent from Brooklyn, out to save a dead man’s former trophy wife from the mob. Before you start reading this book, make sure dinner’s cooked and the dishes are done. You won’t…
Michelle Jerott won the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award for her first book, Absolute Trouble. I thoroughly enjoyed that one and wondered if she could do as well on her next book. Well, as good as Absolute Trouble was, All Night Long is even better and it is my candidate for one of…
Neesa Hart’s A Kiss to Dream On makes for a fine read. Ms Hart, who has written historical romance as Mandalyn Kaye, tackles deafness not only as a personal problem, but updates readers on the current politics surrounding this disability. With such heavy material as a backdrop, it’s difficult to imagine integrating a believable love…
Diana Palmer is so very popular that I asked to review this, her latest book. The plot looked interesting – it was about gambling on a contemporary Indian reservation. I sat down to read and the more I read, the less I enjoyed it. Paper Rose left me angry, confused, upset, and baffled. I’m afraid…
Apache Johnny Whitehorse shared a passionate teen-age love with Leigh Foster. Leigh’s horrible and greedy racist father was a rich man who employed Johnny’s horrible and abusively alcoholic father to train his horses. When Leigh’s father found out that his little girl was having sex with an Indian, he told her to dump Johnny or…
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