Catherine Anderson’s Baby Love features some fabulous writing – the premise which begins the book is explosive and riveting. While there is much to recommend about Anderson’s effort, it is also necessary to point out that the story devolves into a series of clichés that verge on the melodramatic. Rafe Kendrick, one-time happily married father…
How do you combine Hollywood, the South, a movie very like Gone With The Wind, a mystery and a romance? Those are a lot of ingredients to combine in a novel, but Kathleen Gilles Seidel makes the mix shine in More than You Dreamed. The heroine, Jill Casler, has just inherited a huge sum from…
Don’t you just love it when you come across a book that is not to be put down? A book that keeps you up into the wee hours of the night. A book that is written so well, you don’t regret the lack of sleep. Stolen Hearts is just such a book. Intrigue, humor, passion,…
I outgrew the fantasy of falling in love with a rock star a long time ago. When I saw that Once Upon a Dream had a rock star hero (and I looked at the goofy guy on the cover), I wasn’t too excited. After a few pages, though the book sucked me in. Unfortunately a…
Paradise is an anthology with one theme holding it together – Elvis Presley. Each story has the King running amok through it in some way or another. Warning: If you are not an Elvis fan you may have a tough time with this one.
Again was the first book I read by Kathleen Gilles Seidel. It was the winner of the RITA award for best Contemporary Single Title for 1995. I enjoyed it so much that I bought her entire backlist. Again combines a wonderfully humorous concept with a poignant love story. I laughed quite a bit at the…
To be perfectly frank, I was very disappointed with this book. After Tex is written by Sherryl Woods, and I have enjoyed her writing in the past (just last year I gave her Amazing Gracie a grade of B+). The plot is this new book is interesting, a few of the characters endearing, it touches…
Many years ago I went to see Splash with my parents. For those of you who may not remember, this fanciful film was a love story between a man and a mermaid. Although each of us enjoyed it, at one point my dad turned to me and said, “When she did that, it wasn’t realistic.”…
Cyber Bride has what sounds like a cute plot. The hero and heroine meet on line in a chat room and get to be good friends. They actually live in the same building, and each figures out the identity of the other. It’s not unlike You’ve Got Mail, or so you would think. Unfortunately, most…
Timmothy B. McCann is the latest author to enter the booming African-American fiction market, following the path blazed by Terry McMillan and Eric Jerome Dickey. His first novel, Until. . ., mines the already well-worked vein of contemporary male-female relationships, much of which will seem familiar to fans of the genre. Betty Robinson is the…
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