This was a tough book to grade. I found the setting interesting and liked the hero, but the heroine is far too weak for my tastes. I wanted her to get a spine and speak up for herself and, sadly, that didn’t happen until far too late. AJ Rahia is back in his homeland of…
There’s a telling exchange between Edie Higgins and Tyler Hart — the heroine and hero of Ms. O’Reilly’s latest Harlequin Blaze novel Just Surrender — when the two first meet. Edie, moonlighting for a night as a New York cabbie, picks up Tyler from JFK and takes him the very long way into the city….
What do sheikhs and Cajuns have in common with leopard shape-shifters and bloodthirsty archangels? Well, besides the totally possessive hero, they also share Nalini Singh. Like many authors, she sharpened her pen on series romances (in this case, Silhouette Desire) before moving on to prime time. The second book in her Zulheil series doesn’t quite…
I never really paid that much attention to the word “Extra” in the title of Harlequin Presents Extra, aside from knowing that the Extra books are a little more modern in their plots and characters than the regular Presents line. However, after reading Walk on the Wild Side I can’t help wondering if it stands…
I chose She Who Dares, Wins because I thought the plot sounded fun. The heroine is a private detective who goes to London to figure out who is threatening a prominent professor. I thought “London! Sexy Professor! How could I go wrong?” Unfortunately, the plotting was all so superficial that I just couldn’t buy into…
This anthology pairs two short stories that feature wealthy, powerful men who fall for ordinary heroines. I was quite bored with the first story in the collection but had better luck with the second.
These days, it seems to me, Harlequin books break down into two huge categories: Fluffy romances between two people without many problems and heavy, angst-laden stories featuring a couple with one or both so burdened with exceptionally heavy baggage that readers have to wonder how it’s possible to get up in the morning. Rebel with…
Do you ever get a prickling of excitement when you first realize that a book has the potential to be a great read? I do, and by the time I finished reading chapter two of His Wife for One Night the tingling of expectancy was going strong. Happily, that feeling stayed with me throughout the…
If I had a choice of being outside in the six degree weather shoveling snow off my driveway, or reading Bella and the Merciless Sheikh in the warmth of my home, I would have been bundled up in a nanosecond. Sadly, I didn’t have a choice. I didn’t get slammed with the book’s mediocrity in…
Breaking the Rules begins with a scene that nearly anyone would find funny. The heroine owns an art gallery that used to specialize in erotic art, and the hero (her brother’s commanding officer in the army) shows up just in time to help her move a heavy, four foot penis statue. Haha! The heroine snaps…
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