I have a select few books that I like to pull out frequently to reread during the Christmas season. The Best Gift will definitely join their ranks. Though one need not read If Only in My Dreams to follow the plot of this book, it would probably help enrich the experience as both books (written…
A writing professor once told me that dialogue isn’t conversation; it’s conversation’s greatest hits. I wish Heather Graham had taken this advice to heart, as her excessive dialogue and blocky writing style bogged down a book that had some potential. Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas during a snowstorm when a man suddenly appears…
Sapphire Dream is a time travel romance with an interesting, even (dare I say) believable premise. It’s a pleasant read, even if I occasionally found myself liking the idea of the book more than the actual book. Brenna Cameron travels to Scotland at the age of 25 to fulfill a long ago promise to her…
This book was an unusual choice for me. I don’t usually like paranormals, time travel romances, or medievals—and yet this book is all three. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Till There Was You by Lynn Kurland. Zachary Smith doesn’t want to do any more century-hopping, so when he stumbles back…
Too much of a good thing isn’t always a good thing. In late 2007, author Laurie Brown published a ghost story time-travel romance that felt fresh to me. Too bad that with What Would Jane Austen Do? she’s doing almost exactly the same thing again — only less skillfully. <a href="http://www.likesbooks.com/banmanpro/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&Task=Click&Mode=HTML&SiteID=1&PageID=33387 ” target=”_blank”> <img src="http://www.likesbooks.com/banmanpro/a.aspx?ZoneID=4&Task=Get&Mode=HTML&SiteID=1&PageID=33387…
Early in Julie Leto’s Phantom’s Touch I thought I was mistakenly reading an erotica novel, not a paranormal romance, for the hero and heroine barely said “Pleased to meet you,” before they were rolling around naked. I was not ready for their relationship to progress so far, so fast – it made me feel creepily…
I really learned something from this book. If I ever acquire a strange fae-mark in the shape of a rose, signifying that any wish I vocalize will come true, and I then have an urge to wish for “a Highlander of my own,” I am going to be more specific. Rather than vaguely wishing for…
I will just start with the few elements I actually liked about Veronica Wolff’s Sword of the Highlands: the Scots setting, the nicely bad villain (though I did have a problem with his comeuppance), and the escape sequence near the end. However, I had issues with the hero, the heroine, the plot, the romance, the…
What would happen if you could suddenly appear in one of your favorite novels? That’s the interesting premise of Seducing Mr. Darcy, a mix of chick lit, time travel, and alternate reality. Unfortunately, a weak hero left me with mixed feelings about the book. Flip, our heroine, is a research ornithologist at a university in…
I’ve found my first guilty pleasure of the year in Angela Knight’s Warrior, which kicks off her Time Hunters series. Take an alpha male hero, a strong heroine, and a nasty villain, then throw in the future, science fiction, and time travel for an attention-grabbing, fast-paced, lush romance. As one who normally avoids time travel…
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