Everybody’s got it. A spark, a kernel, something in our heads and hearts that lets us believe that someday we’ll meet that someone. The love fate intended for us. For some, the meeting happens early, for others it does not. Lamb in Love is the sweet, funny story of a man who thinks he’s finally…
Confession time: once upon a time, as a starving grad student, I was a phone ‘ho. Or, as I put on my taxes that year, “fantasy consultant.” So I was immediately interested when I heard the premise of M.J. Rose’s Lip Service – a writer undertakes phone sex for research purposes and ends up on…
“How many of those Nazi bastards did you kill?” General Patton asked, squinting in eyeball-to-eyeball contact with the stiffly standing, erect, and at-attention sergeant. No, that’s not a line from some bizarre gay porno set in World War II. It’s actually a quote from James Michael Pratt’s The Lighthouse Keeper, and believe me, that’s just…
The inside flap of The Wind from the Hills tells us that it continues the story of “love, greed and betrayal” that began with The Island Wife (the author’s previous book). Well, I got the greed and betrayal part, but love? This book is a kind of anti-romance. In fact, as far as I could…
Long, Lean, and Lethal may be labeled fiction, but it seems more like romantic suspense. In most romantic suspense I’ve read lately it seems to me that either the romance works or the suspense works but one element works better than the other. This is the first novel I’ve seen where neither element works. Jennifer…
When a baby is born and found dead in the barn of the Amish Fisher family in Paradise, Pennsylvania, 18-year-old Katie Fisher is discovered bleeding. Though she denies not only the birth but the murder of the infant, it seems apparent to one and all that she is either deluded or a liar, the latter…
Disguised Blessing is a pleasant read and an example of what I prefer if I’m reading something that falls into the women’s fiction category. It’s a story that has enjoyable protagonists and a semi-serious plot that isn’t too deep but still has substance. That’s both a strength and a weakness, because the author missed some…
Judith Michael’s new book is about a clothing designer who goes to China on a business trip. In just a few weeks, love, and China, change her forever. In the nineteen eighties I traveled on business quite a bit and many of my trips were to China and Asia. For this reason, the premise of…
Ah, how the other half lives. I used to read Danielle Steel books and dive into a world of pretty people and pretty settings, and glitter, glitter, glitter. Now, however, I demand a little more substance from the books I read, and find the dive into her world is a bit too shallow for my…
Social climbing and the lengths people will go to in order to make a better life for themselves can be fascinating. In The Gatecrasher we have one such anti-heroine, but thankfully, she is surrounded by some of the most interesting and likable characters I have met as of late. Fleur Daxeny crashes funerals in order…
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