How do you get back into the dating scene after your divorce? Must Love Dogs shows how one woman copes with yet another change in her life, in a light but never fluffy book that I breezed through, smiling most of the time. Preschool teacher and divorcée Sarah Hurlihy knows there’s got to be more…
Inter-Office Male is a quirky little book that is probably more different than it is romantic. It’s written in an offbeat style and its characters have realistic, sometimes troublesome flaws. I’m not sure this is a story that will appeal to all romance readers, but lately the more unconventional something is, the more I’m bound…
The idea to review Susan Isaacs’ Shining Through came to me after some people mentioned it fondly on the Reader to Reader Message Board. As a fan of World War II-era fiction, I was thrilled when my editors gave me the go-ahead, even though the book first came out more than a decade ago in…
I knew going in – and I hope this is no surprise to anyone, considering the fame the book and movie have gained over the last 30 years or so – that this story was not going to have a HEA. I’d never seen the movie, never read this story before, and only knew there…
I’ve heard many positive comments about Susan Sizemore’s Laws of the Blood vampire series, and being a tremendous fan of vampire fiction, I was thrilled to find Laws of the Blood: The Hunt, the novel that began it all. But as I began to read my excitement faded and I continued turning the pages only…
Once upon a time, we met Snow White, Cinderella, and scores of other characters through beloved fairy tales. These accustomed us to the idea that the heroine is usually good-looking; her Prince Charming can be counted on to save the day; and perhaps most importantly, there is almost always a happy ending. Which is why…
I couldn’t resist picking up this book, the current number-one bestseller at Amazon.com, with its billing as a satirical expose of the child-rearing habits of upper crust New Yorkers with far, far more money than decency. I sat down with it expecting a fast and funny read. While it was quick, often humorous, and addictively…
Once in awhile there comes a story so completely transporting that, from the exhilarating experience of reading it, you emerge almost wordless. A review cannot fully describe what is indescribably beautiful. But I will say this: Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha is among the handful of works that come to my mind when confronted…
I started A Bend In The Road wanting to like it, and for the first half I basically succeeded. Up until about the halfway point it is a sweet, if uncompelling, tale of two people trying to find hope for a second happiness in life. And then it suddenly turns into a slightly more-compelling but…
I’ve loved Donna Boyd’s werewolf books and am disappointed this is not the next in the Devoncroix series, which I was thoroughly enjoying. While The Alchemist is a change of pace for her, Boyd’s writing is compelling and what she’s created here is as as interesting as the werewolf world she crafted for those earlier…
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