I think we can all agree that Romlandia abounds with rogues. Indeed, they appear nearly as plentiful as dukes. Sometimes “rogue” is code for what seems to be the Regency version of a frat boy, but in other cases, the word “rogue” seems to be code for, “The hero is a really nice guy but…
I’ll give the author credit for taking risks. The lead heroine – because yes, there’s a strong secondary romance – has been homeless and on the run for the last six years. This isn’t a glossed over homelessness, she genuinely suffers the afflictions one would expect from living that type of life. But despite interesting…
Have you ever read a book with a billionaire hero? Then you’ve already read this book. Generic billionaire meets generic heroine, takes her to generic posh event and posh dinner, then is manipulated into taking her to a family wedding. She swears not to fall in love with him but OOPS SHE DOES, and so…
The setup for Disarming Detective is ridiculous, but the suspense plotting worked so well that I got completely sucked into the book. For a while. Unfortunately, the tension didn’t last and I couldn’t help feeling a little let-down by the end. FBI profiler Isabella Cortez is leaving her office, about to go on a much-needed…
A Nice Girl Like You is a rich, densely-written story about two likeable characters. It’s what I always hope for when I pick up a series book but all too rarely find. Samantha (Sam) Jagger, a freelance journalist in Toronto, meets acclaimed war photographer Ben Harris after responding to a newspaper ad placed by Ben’s…
Divorced Rand Waddell persuades his ex-wife Kat to let him move into the basement apartment of their British Columbia house to be their children’s new nanny. He wants to prove he’s changed and win back his family; she’s skeptical and wants to avoid raising false hopes in their two kids. If it’s hard to write…
I read a fair amount of romantic suspense, but kidnapped heroine plots tend not to work for me. There’s often way too much TSTL craziness involved for me to get sucked into the tension of the story. It’s also hard for an author to convince me that the kidnapper and the kidnappee have a healthy…
I’ve reviewed two other books by Ms. Parry, and her books continue to interest me; this is no exception. At its bare bones, the story seems trite: a successful woman doctor meets a star baseball player in a hospital. I thought I knew where this was going: she’s all brains, he’s all brawn, but somehow…
During college I found a copy of LaVryle Spencer’s Separate Beds. It’s the love story of two people caught up in the drama resulting from a pregnancy that occurred after a one night stand. In that book Spencer deals with an era without paternity tests, two very young protagonists and a belief system that doesn’t…
Winning Ruby Heart was pretty hard for me to resist. First of all, I like unusual characters, and it’s hard to top a disgraced Olympic runner – and the paraplegic sportscaster who exposed her – in the unusual department. Secondly, the heroine is a runner. I run recreationally, work with runners and ultra-runners, and am…
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