After finding enjoying several books in the Superromance line, I requested to review Ms. Stockham’s latest. With the feisty heroine and overprotective hero, the book has a strong beginning, but my enjoyment was impacted as the conflict in the story becomes more internal. This book is the beginning of a new series, although in the…
One Good Reason has Ms. Mayberry’s excellent writing, but a few plot details had a negative impact on my grade and ultimately my ability to believe in the happily ever after. This book is the second book in a series loosely connected by the fact the hero is the brother of the hero from The…
This is the last in the author’s Mirabelle Island series. I enjoyed it overall, despite featuring one of my least favorite plot devices: A romance between a career woman who doesn’t want children and a single father. While not without flaws, this story of two troubled adults and two decidedly troubled children held my interest…
I chose Ann Christopher’s Redemption’s Touch for review because I read very little African-American romance, and I was curious in which way the character’s racial background was going to be reflected in their story. From my perspective as a European reader, the answer seems to be in nothing really besides looks – this is a…
Too Wild to Hold starts out with a bang – almost literally – when private detective Claire Lecuyer meets FBI agent Michael Murrieta at a sensual retreat run by a secret society of sexual fetishists called Novelle Placage. The retreat is a re-enactment of an old school quadroon ball, where wealthy gentlemen would seek mixed-race…
I have a weakness for island romances, and this romance, set on a fictional island off the coast of Massachusetts, didn’t disappoint. I found this to be a lovely, quick read featuring a truly tortured hero and a heroine recovering from a broken heart. While the characters – in particular the hero – had real…
Neither melodrama nor anti-climactic resolutions are good for a story. It’s even worse when they are combined. Since that’s exactly what happens in Skylar’s Outlaw, this just isn’t a book I’d recommend seeking out. Skylar Belle is the child of a Texas ranch owner who, upon his death, left the ranch to his three daughters….
This second book in a series by Ms. Bliss definitely held my attention throughout, but as with her last book, Here Comes the Groom, parts of the plot devices just didn’t work for me. Some of the referenced family dynamics are explained more fully in the first book, but you can still read this as…
All right, riddle me this: What do you get when you cross vivid imagery, wry humor and self-awareness, a non-Regency historical setting, and a brisk pace, with a dumbo hero, even dumber heroine, wall-banging anachronisms, and enough clichés to write Hackneyed Writing for Dummies? Answer: A royal pain in the ass. So the idea is…
There are many reasons to celebrate the resurrected Loveswept line, but the republishing of classic romances is certainly one of the biggest. I’d somehow missed this Sharon and Tom Curtis classic when it was first published and I’m delighted I had the chance to read it without paying an exorbitant price for an out of…
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