Narrated by Phil Gigante When I look back on my first romance audiobooks, Karen Marie Moning’s Highlander series almost always comes to mind as something I gobbled up like candy. The Dark Highlander, the fifth book, was my favorite and I was eager to review it for the Month of Romance Audio Favorites feature at…
On Sherry Southerland’s sixty-third birthday, her friend Lorena gives her an unusual present: a visit to a virtual reality studio in Hollywood which can replicate two weeks in any time period. Sherry, nostalgic for a missed romantic connection from her youth, chooses 1969 London. But to their surprise, the two women actually travel through time….
Narrated by Tanya Eby I have mixed feelings about this audiobook, and had to think about my review – and grades – for several days after I finished listening. There’s a lot I don’t like about this time travel story, from the clichéd language in sex-scenes to the use of first-person present tense to some…
You know the stereotype of the Ugly American, a tourist from the U.S. who travels abroad but instead of immersing herself in the culture and trying to really experience the uniqueness of her environment, she expects everything to be like it is “back home”? Geek Girls Don’t Date Dukes is the literary equivalent of the…
At the Duke’s Wedding is a set of linked novellas, each one written by a well-known author in the world of historical romance. Each of the stories takes place in and around the two weeks leading up to the wedding of the eponymous Duke, and one of the things I particularly liked was the way…
I wasn’t completely sure what to expect when I started this book. Yes, I had the summary, but I’ve learned from past experience that just the summary doesn’t always help in choosing something to read. And I was right about that – it isn’t that the back of the book doesn’t describe what is going…
Catherine Anderson books are some of my favorite comfort reads. Her typical heroine displays tough survivalism in the face of hard times, and often finds help and a second chance with a strong country hero. Unfortunately, this book had none of the things I typically like about Anderson’s books, and plenty of things I don’t…
When I picked a book about a time-traveling “Geek Girl,” it never occurred to me that the heroine would be not only coarse but TSTL. The book itself is bland and its plot, minus the time travel, is a class-and-culture conflict straight out of dozens of Regencies, but the unlikeable heroine took this book down…
I’ve been using the 12 in 2012 Reading Challenge on the Potpourri Board to encourage me to clear off my TBR pile and to read new to me sub-genres. Lovers lost in time is not exactly new to me, but it is a sub-genre I don’t read very often. I’m glad I picked it for…
Like many other readers, I’ve been waiting for Peaches Alexander’s story in Kurland’s Medieval/modern romance series. We’ve seen her sisters, including her twin Tess, find the men of their dreams, so it was definitely Peaches’ turn. Unfortunately, 75% of the story is boring fluff, with only a few whiffs of the writer Kurland can be….
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