Let’s just get this out of the way: I hated this book. I was actually excited to review it, because the plot sounded interesting. Hah! This book was annoying to me on so many levels, and pushed a lot of hot button issues. Add the heavy-handed foreshadowing (that our PhD heroine couldn’t recognize) to the…
Allow me to begin by saying I have not read a single Georgette Heyer book in print. I have, however, listened to three of her audiobooks and, although I’m far from being proficient in all things Heyer, I can lay claim to the opinion that you can’t read just one. I’m slowly exploring the audio…
This is the second in the author’s trilogy set in Harmony, Texas. I had trouble with the beginning and felt the ending wrapped up too quickly, but the middle captured me so much that I initially thought I might give the book a qualified recommendation. But I honestly never would have gotten past about the…
I don’t know when the British term “bonkbuster” was coined, but as far as I’m concerned it was invented for Jilly Cooper. Her novels regularly run over 700 pages – that’s the “buster”. And the “bonk“ – goes without saying. At their worst, Ms. Cooper’s novels are cornucopiae of orgies and shagfests without a shred…
AAR receives general fiction from publishers fairly often, usually because it has some sort of romantic element – and would therefore appeal to the lucrative romance reader market. I can’t help wondering how much cross-over there really is, and whether romance readers actually seek out straight fiction that just happens to include a romantic relationship…
With the paranormal boom that is happening right now you would think it would be easy to find books that meet the terms enchanting, magical, or charming. It’s not. Most simply convey the idea of a supernatural world, but somehow Sarah Addison Allen has the gift for pulling you into the very heart of her…
I picked High Anxiety for review because it sounded like a cute combination of mystery and romance. After reading it, I don’t have a clue what genre it’s supposed to be. All I know is I didn’t care for the plot, and hated most of the characters. This is the latest book in a series…
Curing the Blues with a New Pair of Shoes is the latest entry in Dixie Cash’s series featuring “Domestic Equalizers” Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin. I never figured out whether this was supposed to be straight fiction or a cozy mystery, but whatever it is, I didn’t like it. Debbie Sue and Edwina run…
Two years after Nadia’s mother died, her 84-year-old father fell in love with a 36-year-old Ukrainian divorceé . Her name is Valentina and she has golden hair, a pair of superior Botticellian breasts, and a penchant for boil-in-the-bag cuisine. But what do you do when your father refuses to see that his blonde Venus is…
I read Bel Canto years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Then, after giving it to my best friend and recommending it to lots of people, I used it as the first discussion book for my book club. Needless to say, I think this is a book that people should read. It’s very well-written and thought-provoking…
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