Reviews by Dabney Grinnan
I read The Seduction Hypothesis when it came out and enjoyed it. It was my first quasi BDSM book that sparkled with humor and I did and do love Dryden's writing--she is another writer I sorely miss. Recently it popped up on Steals and Deals and I decided to give it a reread.Perhaps the best thin ...
The heroine of The Worst Guy is a plastic surgeon at a teaching hospital with a practice of reconstructive rather than aesthetic cases. My husband is a plastic surgeon who, for the first twenty years of his career was... at a teaching hospital and whose practice was half reconstructive/half aestheti ...
B+
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among warehouses in London. Its roof terrace is so discreet, you wouldn’t know it existed if you weren’t standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that’s when you see a man up there—a man you’d recognize anywher ...
Who knew pretending could be so hot? Clark: It started as a joke. After all, I’d never pretend to date a woman just to get my mom and sister off my back.I would, however, pretend to date her to get her ex-husband off hers.Now the two of us, the wilderness warrior and the wedding plann ...
Every damn day I search for Steals and Deals for AAR's readers. Recently, Take What You Want showed up. I remembered loving it years ago so I bought it and read it again. I don't read a lot of NA and I think good novellas are few--Take What You Want is both and, yes, I still think it's great.Ell ...
Joy Delaney, almost 70, has vanished.Her husband of fifty years, Stan, and their four kids--Brooke, Amy, Logan, and Troy--say they've no idea where's she gone. She left no word of where she was headed and her cellphone, purse, and car are all sitting at home. Has she been killed? And if so, did ...
Illumination Night was my favorite book for a decade of my life. It and Josephine Humphrey's Dreams of Sleep are two stories I wish I had the talent to have written. I read both before I was married and now, after almost 35 years of marriage, their perspectives on the complexity of a partnered life ...
A most unexpected client shows up at Charlotte Holmes's doorstep: Moriarty himself. Moriarty fears that tragedy has befallen his daughter and wants Charlotte to find out the truth.Charlotte and Mrs. Watson travel to a remote community of occult practitioners where Moriarty's daughter was last se ...
I'm a fan of Bell's Wilder series and had thought there'd be six books, one for each Wilder sibling. It appears, however, that the story of the lone female Wilder, the already married Amanda, is told in a short story included in the anthology Tinsel and Tatas. This collection, a charitable endeavor ...
If ever there were a man ho who could steal your heart, it's Brody Wilder.Brody is the second of five absurdly sexy brothers who live in the small town Rush Creek, Oregon where they run, with their sister's help, Wilder Adventures, an outdoor adventure outfit trying to stay in the black. Unlike ...