When this book was first assigned to me to review, I was excited. At four-thirty this morning when I finished reading it, however, I knew that the review process was not going to be as easy as I supposed. How to convey the brilliant complexity of the story, the unexpected revelations, the thought-provoking intricacies, without…
Foreign Correspondents isn’t dull. It’s rather grimly fascinating, like watching a car accident in slow motion. Very slow motion. Clare is an emotionally-crippled Englishwoman who lives with a famous cricket star, Jeremy, and writes novels about people with fruitless, unfulfilled lives, much like her own. She’s not happy with Jeremy, but she plans to marry…
And they say women are the sentimental sex? Fallen Angel is so filled with Hallmark moments it’s a card store in a book. Young boy confronts tragedy, teen estranged from the Old Man, young man gets rich, mature man leaves the big city and comes home to small town where he finds himself and true…
I suppose the identity of the villain in Envy could be considered a spoiler. If you don’t want to know it, you might want to stop here. Of course, the book features a love story between a married woman and a man who is not her husband, so I was pretty sure I knew who…
Barbara Wood’s latest novel Sacred Ground is a complex tale of mystery, insight, and history, with strong characters both in the present and in the past. All aspects of the plot are involving, and if the suspense is lacking in some subplots, it’s more than adequate in others. Dr. Erica Tyler is an archaeologist for…
Inventing Savannah, the first collaboration by Susan Shapiro Barash and Joanne Lara, contains hints of a story that could have been entertaining and even deeply moving, had it not been for extremely poor writing, a complete lack of subtly, consistency, or likable characters, and a spattering of elements that never fit in, as if the…
Ever since I started reading Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ contemporary romances, I’ve been hearing readers say that they wish she’d return to her days of contemporary fiction. Having read Glitter Baby, I now know why. Belinda Britton was a star-struck beauty who lived for the sight of a silver screen face and dreamed of the day…
What should I say about Rescue Me? Well, first of all, it’s definitely not a romance. It’s fiction. Gritty, overly realistic fiction about people you probably wouldn’t like if you met them. Get-out-the-razor-blades-’cause-life-is-terrible-and-surely-not-gonna-get-any-better type fiction. Bleak. If that’s what you like, then this is the book for you. Amanda McHenry is a college graduate working…
You’ll have to be in a specific mood to enjoy The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love: namely you’ll have to be in the mood to read about warm friendships between mature, older women. Also don’t expect a lot of action, and don’t be in a hurry for the story to end. Grace Singleton, Hannah…
The last quarter of Dorothea Benton Frank’s latest work Plantation is all that keeps it from being a solid D. But that last portion is so moving that I was forced to raise the grade of the otherwise hackneyed novel to the distinctly above-average mark. Unfortunately, the rest of the book reads as if the…
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