I’ll say this for the art department at Dutton: They have some serious love for Lauren Willig. Her covers are always attractive, but the one on The Mischief of the Mistletoe is absolutely stunning. Periodically I would find myself lost in a daze and realize I was doing it, again – staring at the cover,…
A Cowboy Christmas isn’t all that Christmas-y. Our heroine decorates the house and the story takes place in late December, but that’s about it for holiday atmosphere – it could have been set in the summer just as well. This is a very busy tale with several subplots, and lots of characters but it’s not…
I picked up my copy of A Christmas Promise at a library book sale a couple of months ago for a dime. My experience in the past with Mary Balogh has been spotty, but I thought there was a chance this might have resale value and my initial investment was hardly steep, so decision made….
Seduce Me by Christmas is an average book that lured me in with the Christmas theme. It wasn’t a terrible book by any means, but it’s entirely skippable – even if you love Christmas stories. Raoul Charlebois is a renowned actor who has just retired from the stage, mostly so he can devote some time…
Sometimes I just want to wring characters’ necks for being so stubborn. This was one of those books. I really liked A Christmas Scandal by Jane Goodger, but if the characters just swallowed their pride and were honest, it would have been significantly shorter. In a previous book, Maggie Pierce met Lord Edward Hollings when…
Ah, my Christmas reading binge has already begun. I have a running head start this year, and am actually three books into it – and it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. Christmas Spirit was a decent (if not awe-inspiring) offering. The love scenes are hot and well-written, but there isn’t a lot of substance to this…
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…
I chose this book because I’ve read one other by Liz Fielding and it made me cry. There is a quality to her writing that pleases me – she lets dialogue stand for itself without cluttering it with speech tags and the sentences roll off each other in the best tradition of understated British prose;…
Although Lakeshore Christmas is the latest in Susan Wiggs’ Lakeshore Chronicles series, it works fine as a stand-alone. Fans of the series will no doubt enjoy cameo appearances from past characters, which, thankfully, weren’t too much for a newcomer like me. Maureen Davenport absolutely loves Christmas, so she’s very excited about getting to direct Avalon’s…
There’s nothing better for December reading than a traditional regency romance set during the Christmas season. Thank you Signet for re-printing several of the beloved old favorites including Father Christmas, by the wonderful mistress of regency humor, Barbara Metzger. Leland Warrington, Duke of Ware has an heir and a spare as well, just not his…
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