When I first read the back of this book, I said to myself, here we go again – yet another marriage of convenience story. However, as I read, I was surprised and touched by Fielding’s take on the old plot, and in the end, liked it a great deal. Ivo is a millionaire married to…
The Secret Dreams of Emily Porter is Judith Raxten’s debut novel. Though competently written and easy to read, it left me dissatisfied. The author tells an interesting story, but her style of telling about events and characters shortchanged both, and her character development lacked refinement. The novel begins with a prologue. Emily, on the eve…
Cindi Meyers’ Marriage on Her Mind is a small-town romance, the type some people love and others, well, don’t. Aside from the protagonists, a host of minor characters and fellow townspeople provide comic relief. Casey Jernigan drove herself from Chicago to a small Colorado town with little more than a potted plant and a wedding…
You would think that a book entitled Father Material would be about the attributes that make a man a good father, rather than his material assets. That’s not the case in this book, unfortunately. Don’t get me wrong – steady employment with benefits is always helpful, but it isn’t the only advantage a man offers….
The Debutante’s Second Chance is a pleasant low key romance set in a small Indiana river town. A serious thread runs through the story – the heroine is a former abused wife who runs an underground railroad for abused women and children. Despite its dark subject matter, the book is sweet and sunny and low…
There are times when I come across a romance novel that’s just plain boring. Adopted Son, unfortunately, is just that. Jeremiah Tucker – Tuck to his friends – finds a little baby named Brady at a crime scene. Brady is clearly a neglected child, and shows the physical and mental scars. The baby’s plight brings…
Marriage at the Circle M sounded like a sweet romance about two nice people. In actuality, it’s a sweet romance about two annoying people. As I spent most of the book wanting to bang their heads together, this wasn’t quite the quick, fun read I had hoped for. Grace Lundquist is the sweetheart of her…
Stripped begins well, but even though the leads are engaging, the sub-plot and the addition of too many secondary characters interfered with their screen time. I appreciate that the author tried to do something different here, but her execution wasn’t all it could be. At the start of the book, Lilith St. Lyon, a powerful…
Wife for a Week suffered the misfortune of being read between two books I liked much better. I picked it up in the brief span of time between reading The Thirteenth Tale for book club and the long awaited Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It didn’t come close to matching the caliber of either…
The Asian idea of yin and yang – or balance in all things – is true for romance novels as well. There needs to be a balance the emotional conflict and sexual awareness of the hero and heroine. Ms. Lewis favored the second over the first. As the book opens, Sara Daley enters her boss’s…
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