While I’ve enjoyed all the books in Elizabeth Hoyt’s Maiden Lane series, Dearest Rogue has been the one I’ve most eagerly anticipated. In fact, it’s one of my most highly anticipated books of 2015. Perhaps that’s a little unusual, considering this is the eighth book in a long-running series, but something about the pairing of…
Anthony Brandt said “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.” It’s true that family can have the most profound effect on our lives. In this novel, family is a tie that binds, in both good ways and bad. Penny Sandoval has a complicated family life. On the one hand, her…
I’ll admit that when I saw the title, Sins of a Virgin, my first thoughts went to the virgin widows and faux courtesans that seem to live in abundance in Romanceland, if not anywhere else. And as I started getting into the backstory, I wondered whether the spy heroine was going to be one of…
If you saw a book described as being about King Arthur, warlocks, sorcerers, and Avalon, what kind of book would you expect? Probably the same thing that I would and we would both be way off in the case of Master of Darkness. In the description it did say that there were werewolves involved, so…
Like many published writers who have been writing a long time, JoAnn Ross has perfected her style of writing and it hasn’t changed much over the years. Though a favorite author of mine for a long time, lately I’m finding I have an uneasy time with the perfection of her characters and the lovefest ambiance…
The Kelley Legacy series may not be sheer romance genius, but I will say that it works as a marketing ploy. Two C-level books in, and for some reason I feel compelled to buy them all and find out how this ends. Go figure. Special Ops Bodyguard picks up where the first book in the…
Some storylines in romantic suspense novels are believable, are placed in a realistic universe. Others are, well, not. Edge of Sight falls somewhere in between these two. Regardless of whether or not the conspiracy around the suspense is likely, it’s plausible within the universe the author creates, and enjoyable. Three years ago, Sam Fairchild and…
What A Demon Wants is a hoot. I haven’t been so entertained in a long time, and I can definitely recommend this light, fun read. Ellina Kostova is a half demon, half human author who happens to write a successful fiction series about a cake decorator-turned demon hunter named Jenny Bell. Unfortunately, because her facts…
There are no shades of gray in Julie Garwood’s books of late. The villains twirl virtual mustaches and the good characters are nothing less than saintly. Still, the author remains one of the best storytellers in the business and the one she tells in Sizzle is largely a good one. Lyra Prescott is a breathtakingly…
Cliches and formulas are only boring if the author doesn’t write beyond them. For example, many of Liz Fielding’s books employ the following structure: A quick establishing of the characters and scenario, followed by… An intense, 48-hour period in which we get to know our two characters inside and out, which sets us up for……
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