Reviews by Ellen Micheletti

C+
A Child of Her Own

I enjoyed Beverly Barton's Protectors series and thought I'd try one of her stand-alone books, so I read A Child of Her Own. It was thoroughly enjoyable and I was fully prepared to give it a 4 rating until just before the ending when one scene jarred me out of the mood and caused the book to drop a ...

C+
Fever

Elizabeth Lowell books are one of my guilty pleasures. I know when I get one of her older novels, I am in for some serious sensuousness. Characters? Well, the man is usually (hell always!) scarred, bitter, does not like women, thinks they're all money grubbing vixens who only want to get their perfe ...

A
Knight of a Trillion Stars

Knight of a Trillion Stars launched Dara Joy as one of the more sensual (to put it mildly!) romance writers around. It is followed by Rejar and you really ought to read them both in order to get the full effect.Deana Jones is having a horrible day. She's just been fired, and when she goes to the ...

B-
The Devil's Love

If I could distill what it is that makes some heroines come across as warm, lovable and kind while others with very similar characteristics come across as fluffy girls, I'd bottle and sell it. Abigail Carrington in The Devil's Love is the kind of heroine I love and she is the best thing in the book. ...