One Summer first came out in 1993. When I read it, I thought that Johnny and Rachel were two of the best characters I had encountered in a long time, but I had reservations about the plot. One Summer has been re-issued in a new paperback edition and I re-read it. Johnny and Rachel are…
Just how interested are you in boating and amber? If you don’t know now, you will after you read Amber Beach, a book in which each of these subjects are discussed in elaborate detail. I discovered I was fairly interested in the amber, but not the boating. This pretty much sunk the first half of…
Jayne Ann Krentz has just provided more fuel to the discussion about alpha heroes. Jasper Sloan, the hero of Flash is in some ways a typical alpha – a leader, more interested in business than in pleasure. At the same time, he’s a devoted family man. And when Olivia Chantry comes along, he learns to…
I may get drummed out of the sisterhood, but I must confess that I generally don’t like the heroines of screwball comedies. Too often, they are so dumb and annoying, I wonder how they have lived as long as they have (are you listening, Ally McBeal)? Kit McClellan, the heroine of Elizabeth Bevarly’s My Man…
This book left a smile on my face the entire time I was reading it. It has my favorite romantic element – a Cinderella story. Many of my favorite romances as a young adult involved shy ugly ducklings making themselves over into swans and getting the guy. Apparently my taste hasn’t changed. You armchair psychiatrists…
Picking up a Nora Roberts book is seldom a disappointing experience, because Nora Roberts almost always delivers. The Winning Hand is no exception. It’s like reading a fairy tale, a Cinderella story with a rags to riches plot and deeply satisfying characters. It is also part of the MacGregor series, so fans have the added…
The Amazon link and price information are for the first book in the series, Chat. To paraphrase my fave, Bette Davis— Fasten your seatbelts … it’s going to be a bumpy review. Did you like The English Patient? The Horse Whisperer? The Bridges of Madison County? I’m probably the only person I know who basically…
Somewhere in the middle of Kentucky, there is a garden being built that sounds like it would be a wonderful place to visit. The reason I know so, is because this book was about that garden, and it was about a romance that came about because of that garden. Garden of Dreams is an original,…
Although there has been strong “buzz” on this book, it didn’t do much for me. It harkened back to earlier days of romance when heroes and heroines were stock and descriptions overdone. Seth Wyatt, a best-selling horror novelist, and Pippa Cochran, a woman fleeing an abusive relationship, meet when she takes a job as his…
Taken! is not the kind of book you stop and analyze. It’s not deep or profound, but if you take it for what it is – an incredibly sensuous story with two very likable lead characters, I think you will be pleased. Dillon Oaks is a consultant who has been brought in by the Johnson’s…
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