There are worse things for a book to be besides spectacularly boring, but when you’re reading a spectacularly boring book it’s hard to think of anything that’s worse. Here and Now is boring. Mind-numbingly boring. Rather watch paint dry boring. You’d think it would be entertaining. The hero, Charles Garrity, is catapulted forward in time…
Pam Binder’s latest time travel romance, The Enchantment, offers an enjoyable storyline and sympathetic characters marred by poor plotting and inattention to detail. These factors combined with a less-than-perfect understanding of time travel and its implications and mechanisms contribute to a book with a few highs and numerous lows – with the lows far outnumbering…
Set during a period that brings to mind impregnable castles, kilted warriors, and rugged mountains, Kiss of the Highlander is actually a cute love story with only a sprinkling of atmosphere. Karen Marie Moning’s latest work is the furthest thing from an impressive, cathartic epic. I almost feel guilty for enjoying it. During a trip…
If you love action, this is the book for you, because it’s packed with it. From the time the heroine steps through into the seventeenth century until the last page is turned, the plot moves quickly and the excitement never stops. If deeper characterization and romance is a little neglected in the process, it’s still…
Jane Eveleigh has been blackmailed into marriage by Dominic Stainbridge, the Marquess of Lancaster. Lancaster is famous for his scandalous behavior towards women. He exiled one mistress to America after she shot him, and another killed herself when he dumped her. Lancaster is cold, narcissistic, and childish. Jane, the only woman to ever tell him…
The Pleasure Master by Nina Bangs tries really hard to be an ooh la la sort of read. For me it was more of a ho hum read, all the more disappointing because of the good review she received at AAR for last year’s An Original Sin. Kathy Bartlett is a modern-day New York hairdresser…
I wanted to read A Find Through Time because it takes place in and around the Battle of Little Big Horn (also known as Custer’s Last Stand), which sounded like an interesting setting for a time travel romance. Unfortunately, Marianne Petit’s book reads like a rough draft, and not a particularly good one. Gabrielle Camden…
Alicia James and her two sisters are singing in a graveyard to honor a recently deceased woman (who was believed to be a witch) when they are separated by an extremely thick fog. While making her way through the fog, Alicia realizes that she isn’t in the Wyoming cemetery anymore, and this is confirmed when…
I spent a few enjoyable hours with A Double-Edged Blade, but in the end, it was neither excellent nor horrible. I felt a distinct lack of connection with the characters, and it was almost like watching an event from the highest stadium seat, where it doesn’t have much impact. When Faith Worthington was a little…
A funny thing happened on the way to the past in Night Visitor: this somewhat skeptical reader began to enjoy herself very much. Don’t get me wrong, I’m always on the lookout for new time travel novels. But the ones I find often don’t live up to my expectations, hence my wariness. Jackson’s heroine, Tafaline…
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