The Shadows of Christmas Past offers two stories, one a wonderful read and the other only just good enough to pass the time. Both stories, though, have enough plot to keep the reader interested and spread a little holiday cheer. A Rocky Mountain Miracle by Christine Feehan Although the title A Rocky Mountain Miracle kept…
The Trouble with Valentine’s Day takes the reader back to Gibson’s fictional town of Gospel, Idaho for a second visit. This is a pretty typical Rachel Gibson story with its ex-athlete uber-alpha hero and attractively insecure heroine in the midst of a life change. I was glad to read it – I’m a sucker for…
This is a story of unrequited love, a plot that usually works for me. And while Miss Whitlow does finally get her man, the path toward her Happily Ever After is a well-worn and familiar one. George Clasby has seen his friends fall victim to happiness one by one, causing him to take a good…
A Family Christmas is one of the better series romances I’ve read this year. You won’t find spies, cowboys, or babies here, though there is a child, and it’s set in a small town. It’s not glamorous or fast-paced, but it fits the bill if you’re looking for romance between two ordinary people. Rose Robbin…
When I was at the bookstore last week buying Signet’s new Regency Christmas anthology, the sales associate managed to convince me to buy this book too. It didn’t take much convincing; all I needed to see were the words “Christmas” and “house party,” and the book all but sold itself. I wasn’t expecting a masterpiece,…
Somewhere in this book there was a story that I wanted to read. A young girl publicly and painfully jilted in her first season by a cad who targeted her and planned the stunt to get into an elite club. The cad’s brother, an honest and decent man, meets this girl six years later and…
I enjoyed Christine Feehan’s first story about the magical Drake sisters in the Lover Beware anthology earlier this year and looked forward to seeing more of them. I can’t say the same after reading her second story about them in The Twilight Before Christmas. It has a beautiful, atmospheric cover and opens with a nicely…
A 5th Avenue Christmas didn’t work for me. At all. Though the premise is interesting, the actual execution falls short. Part of the problem is that the book itself is short, but it’s also crippled by characters who would be annoying in a book of any length. Meryl Carrington is the youngest daughter of a…
Okay, I have to say it: I feel like Scrooge. I always look forward to reading the Christmas books that come out every year (although there seem to be fewer and fewer), and The Christmas Basket was my first one of the season. Well, this story is the equivalent of a lump of coal in…
What’s better than a house party book? A Christmas house party book, of course. Members of the Regency list I hang out on know that my ears perk up with the mention of the words “house party,” and nothing seems to suit a house party better than snow storms and mistletoe. Donna Simpson’s latest book…
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