Do You Believe? has an interesting premise and began with a lot of potential. It’s a paranormal romance, one of my favorite subgenres, and features two story elements that I find appealing: a horror novelist hero and an English setting. But its early promise soon faded as it got bogged down in a slow-moving plot…
Melanie Jackson’s Divine Fire is a paranormal romance with an original and fascinating premise. It’s a very interesting read, but also has a number of weaknesses that make it an uneven one. In 1816, Lord Byron came to stay at the home of Dr. Johann Conrad Dippel, the mad scientist who inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein….
You know, the hardest part of writing a review isn’t supposed to be picking a category for the book. Windwalker isn’t really a Romance since the main protagonists don’t actually meet until page 265 and there isn’t a traditional HEA. Despite a few half-hearted paranormal elements, it’s not really a Paranormal either. And, even though…
Seal Island is a gothic paranormal that is just…too long. There’s a lot of interesting stuff here that would have been much more interesting had the book been shorter by about a third. Cecilia “Cecil” Hargrave is at a crossroads in her life when she unexpectedly inherits a house and business from a rather distant…
The Shadows of Christmas Past offers two stories, one a wonderful read and the other only just good enough to pass the time. Both stories, though, have enough plot to keep the reader interested and spread a little holiday cheer. A Rocky Mountain Miracle by Christine Feehan Although the title A Rocky Mountain Miracle kept…
Fay Rae Lambers is a shy, inexperienced calculus professor. She was the victim of sexual abuse as a teenager, and she currently suffers from chronic rheumatoid arthritis that gives her constant pain. Due to those two things, Rae is a virgin and has no plans to ever change that. On vacation in Egypt, Rae literally…
The third book (follows Forever… and Forever and Always) in a series-within-a-series revolving around the supernaturally gifted Darci Montgomery, Always initially sets a fast pace with its rather suspenseful and multilayered plotline, only to repeatedly stall and, ultimately, become rather confusing. Jack Hallbrooke grew up with everything that money could buy, but without the parental…
Dark, sensual and wholly compelling, Dream of Me is an absorbing read from start to finish. Theron is an incubus, a demon who slips into women’s dreams and fulfills their deepest sexual longings. For four thousand years, he has given women the kind of pleasure they could only find in their sleep, while feeling nothing…
I want you to know that I don’t enjoy doing this. I wish I could give every first novel by every new author at least a B. But in the case of Lauren’s Eyes, the debut by Norah Wilson, that would be just a little too complimentary. Lauren Townsend is a veterinarian who is also…
When I first began to review for AAR, the Loveswept line of series romances was about to be discontinued. One author who was published by them toward the end was Catherine Mulvany and one of my first reviews was of her charming debut Upon A Midnight Clear. She published Man Shy and Aquamarine with Loveswept…
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