Well, well, well! The first series romance I read in 2007 turns out to be a good one. I hope this is an omen of things to come. Michael “Spike” Moriarity is not the kind of man to attract genteel ladies. He’s six feet four inches tall, spikey haired, tattooed, always dresses in black, and…
Marie Donovan’s debut, Her Body of Work, was one of the better, and hotter, romances I read in 2005, so I was eager to read her follow-up, Her Book of Pleasure, the story of the earlier heroine’s best friend. Thankfully, unlike so many others, this is one author who doesn’t disappoint in her sophomore effort….
In the early days of the Blaze line, the publisher’s guidelines stated that the books needed to have a “sexy premise.” The problem was that not only were many of these supposedly “sexy premises” forced and lame, but having one didn’t necessarily result in a sexy story. Mara Fox’s Letting Loose! suffers from an even…
Aside from the generic title and the presence of a Big Secret, this was a wonderful romance that places the author firmly on my radar. Maggie Sullivan is a television reporter who is good friends with her cameraman, Sean O’Reilly. Previously Sean’s womanizing ways were an automatic turn-off, but strangely enough, Sean has recently stopped…
Sylvie Kurtz’s A Rose at Midnight was the guiltiest of pleasures for me, a gothic romance so wildly over-the-top I could practically feel the cheese oozing from the pages as I read it. I couldn’t call it good, but darned if it wasn’t entertaining. Kurtz tones down the melodrama in her latest gothic-themed romantic suspense,…
Amanda Stevens is an author whose books I used to enjoy very much, but over the years, I’ve become less and less satisfied; they are now shorter, shallower, and less fulfilling. Double Life is a case in point. It has a classic gothic premise that the Amanda Stevens of old could have done great things…
Beyond the Boardroom is the culmination of the year-long Elliotts continuity series, but don’t expect great fanfare here. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. The book isn’t over-run by past couples (in fact, barely any show up), and the focus is definitely on the hero and heroine. So while it may be a bit…
Haunted was one of those books that I breezed through even as I recognized that it wasn’t particularly good. The first in Lisa Childs’s new trilogy Witch Hunt, it’s a more engaging book than the other Silhouette Nocturnes I’ve tried. It also suffers from a number of weaknesses that prevent it from being a satisfying…
When it comes to authors Missing In Action, I really miss Jan Freed. She wrote some of the best Harlequin Superromance titles ever including this Pygmalion inspired little gem – My Fair Gentleman. It’s one of my all-time favorite comfort reads and one of the books I simply must have on the desert island. If…
Historical author Hope Tarr makes her contemporary debut with It’s a Wonderfully Sexy Life, the third of Harlequin’s Extreme Blazes. This holiday-themed tale makes a few missteps, but overall it’s an enjoyable read. Baltimore cop Mandy Delinski doesn’t think she has much to celebrate this Christmas. It’s starting to look like she’ll never make detective,…
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