I don’t read scary books. Why? Well, it’s simple, really: I’m scared of my own shadow. No, really – I slept with a nightlight for years. In college. So when I tell you that Brenda Joyce’s latest novel House of Dreams is really scary, you might want to take it with a grain of salt….
It’s great to have an anthology where the majority of the stories are so good. Even if you’re mainly interested in only one of the authors, be sure to check out the stories by J.D. Robb, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Susan Krinard. Hamilton fans should be aware, however, that the Anita Blake story is actually…
The heroine of A Light on the Veranda is a busy girl – she moves from New York to Mississippi, switches careers, starts to fall in love, deals with her horrid mother and ex-fiancé, and must face the tragic events in the life of her long-dead namesake. While the paranormal aspects in this book, which…
Ritual of Proof features a sheltered but willful young virgin, an inescapable arranged marriage and an evil villain hell-bent on destroying the couple’s blossoming rapture. Is that a snore I hear? So, you think you’ve read this story a few hundred times already? Why would you even consider paying hardcover price for this tired old…
The premise for Once Upon a Dream has much more potential than the book actually delivers. Still, even though it falls a short in places, the characters are charming, the storyline intriguing, and the hero is handsome and capable without being macho. The only villain in this tale, is time. In two weeks, reclusive Robin…
The idea that a person may, with every full moon, abandon every last vestige of civilization and humanity and become a wolf is an idea that has fascinated people for centuries, and if well used, can add a wonderfully dark, doomed tone to a romance. Here, in The Wolf of Haskell Hall, the werewolf myth…
Here’s how good Bloodsucking Fiends is: I was reading passages out loud to a friend on a long bus trip when I realized that at least three rows of people around us had been silent for the last 40 miles, apparently listening in. I got embarrassed and drifted off (who was I to inflict my…
With her previous books, The Legend McKinnon and Legend of the Sorcerer, Donna Kauffman has made a name for herself in paranormal romance. I am happy to say that Your Wish Is My Command extends her winning streak to three. It is a charming read about a pirate-turned-Cupid and a former boat racing champion who…
I have enjoyed the other books in this series (Infinity and Eternity), but an unlikable heroine and a Big Misunderstanding marred my enjoyment of this latest entry. Nibada is one of the oldest Immortal High Witches around. In 2,501 B.C. she had been left at the temple in Sumer with no clue as to her…
Be warned: the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series is not for the faint of heart. I have to say that, because I’ve read Kim Newman and Elaine Bergstrom and other vampire stories, and I still cringed at times as I read Guilty Pleasures. The continuing saga of the very normal woman who chooses to make…
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