Reading Kit Dee’s Brit’s Lady is the equivalent of eating fast food – it’s quick but unmemorable. While the story reads at a brisk pace and the lead characters have possibilities, neither seems terribly realistic. The villain has that Snidely Whiplash aura, and the love scenes are marred by the. . . over-exuberant use. ….
Have you ever been at a play, maybe a high school performance, and it’s not working very well? All the props look fake, the rigging is showing, and the lead keeps missing his cues. The audience is left to try to indulge the performers and grit their teeth and get through it. That’s what reading…
I can tell what I think of a book I’ve just finished reading by counting the number of page corners I’ve turned over, because that’s how I mark places where something happened to jar me out of the story. The fewer the folder-over pages, the better. Unhappily, there are lots of them in my copy…
The Maiden’s Revenge offers two bigger-than-life characters, an overdose of lust, and a modicum of action as pirate meets merchant, neither ever to be the same again. Although the book is competently written and possesses an intriguing story concept, the characters lack the multi-dimensional quality that lends life and appeal, and the action bogs down…
Indiscretion is a very lusty farce and an altogether wonderful romance. It’s far more sexual than any of author Jillian Hunter’s books of which I am aware. It also features a fairly daring plot structure, which reveals the hot and heavy past relationship between hero and heroine right at the start. If, as I do,…
Other reviewers at this site have liked Julia London’s novels, so I was looking forward to reading this one. This is an unfortunate example of what different tastes we reviewers have. Adrian Spence kills one of his best friends at the opening of this novel. He and his remaining two friends, a group known as…
Over Christmas vacation I had the delightful experience of finding a book that I will always keep and remember. It was Karyn Monk’s Surrender to a Stranger, a wonderful book set in England and Paris during the revolution. Imagine my delight when I discovered that this author had a new book coming out. Wow. I…
The Mistress of Rosecliffe succeeds in providing plenty of Medieval flavor set against the backdrop of the Welsh-English conflict. This well written tale, with an interesting although familiar plot, makes for the final installment in Rexanne Becnel’s Rosecliffe trilogy. Isolde FitzHugh is determined not to marry the uninspiring man her father has chosen for her;…
I’ve always said that a good writer can pull anything off, but some plots are harder to swing than others. One of the very hardest is the “wild child” story where one of the two main characters has been raised in a “primitive” culture. This goes double when the country of origin is imaginary. All…
When I pick up a book by Amanda Quick, I expect to not have to worry about a “big misunderstanding.” I expect to enjoy a lot of quality interaction between the hero and the heroine, and I expect that there will be some humor, some passion, and some intrigue. In short, I expect a comfort…
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