In The Personal Touch, Lori Borrill takes a break from writing about wounded heroes to deliver an enjoyable flirty-playboy/hero-in-pursuit romance. Clint Hilton loves his mother, but she’s driving him a little crazy. After his father passed away, Mom moved in with Clint in what was supposed to be a temporary arrangement. More than a year…
Sometimes we love books because they push the envelope and stretch the boundaries of our imagination, taking us places we would never think of going on our own. Just as often, though, readers fall in love with books because they are “comfort reads,” taking a familiar formula and telling the story in a fresh voice….
Kimberly Van Meter writes contemporary romances set in the fictional small town of Emmett’s Hill, in the California Sierra Nevadas. And it’s the first small town I’ve read about in recent history in which the residents look out for each other, but in which they are really nasty towards the outsider. No absolute hearts of…
Heroines who want to be in charge of it all are usually heroines who test my patience – greatly I may say. But for a heroine to drolly, yet truthfully, admit more than once “I am a terrible person”…well, there must be something there to like. Architect Tess Roussel is trying to make a go…
Actually, this one isn’t half bad. Kate Crawford has been Drake Daniels’ sporadic lover for the past two years. When she discovers she is pregnant, she tracks down the semi-reclusive author to his hidey hole to spend time with him outside of bed and see if they have a future together. Nothing new. Absolutely nothing…
Always the Bridesmaid really tries to pack a lot into a little book. There’s a wedding (the heroine’s best friend), a hero and heroine with complicated childhoods, and current challenges to overcome. None of this is bad, but it’s way too much for a book with fewer than 180 pages. Amy Edler is a baker….
Someone Like You is the first novel by Janice Kay Johnson I have ever read. Although I found it extremely well-written for the most part, some elements seriously annoyed me, which led me to lower the grade. Lucy Peterson owns and cooks for a café in her small hometown of Middleton. A special guest is…
When I read the cover blurb of Brenda Jackson’s Intimate Seduction, by the third play on the hero’s name, my hopes sank. “Maybe it was written by a un-punny editorial assistant,” I tried to assure myself. Maybe the book is better. I was wrong. The story is just as bad as the back cover copy….
I frequently complain about series romances that focus on people who leave their small towns and come back. But I won’t bother this time; even though The Boyfriend’s Back has that basic plot, it’s pretty good. It even surprised me in some ways. JT McNulty hasn’t been back to his small Pennsylvania hometown in years….
Harlequin Presents mini-gloms are a springtime tradition for me since something about the advent of warm weather awakens this wish for a little reading streak of modern-day fairytales. It was during my HP-fest this spring that I chanced upon The Ruthless Billionaire’s Virgin. Though not the best series book I’ve read, the author does have…
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