What She Wants for Christmas is an idiotically titled book, that is, nonetheless, a very touching story of striving and acceptance. Teresa Burkett has just moved her small family from the big city to the small town of White Horse. Her ten-year-old son is fine with the move, but her teenage daughter, Nicole, is less…
Girl is stranded away from home, boy takes her home to spend holidays with his family, they fall in love, but have to deal with careers and relocation before they can live happily ever after. That is basically the plot of Feliz Navidad, with about 200 pages of minutiae added to fill up the rest…
We have all had the experience of watching a movie or television show where one of the supporting actors steals the show right out from under the star. Remember Alan Rickman as the sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves? I think the star was some guy named Kevin something or other. In…
As I write this review, I’m really trying to keep my temper under control. With few exceptions, the heroine of A Christmas Promise is the most irritating, pig-headed, unreasonable, whining twit I’ve ever read. I couldn’t get through this book fast enough and get that woman out of my life. Lady Juliana Archer married the…
Comfort and Joy is a Christmas offering from Zebra that failed to put me in the holiday spirit. Charles Rycroft is a member of the Boston creme de la creme. He’s inherited a publishing business, and as a hobby he collects fine art. One day, after making a particularly important art purchase, he is mugged…
In her debut hardcover Stephanie Laurens plumbs the family history she created in her Cynster series to tell the story of Sebastian, the Duke of St. Ives and Helena, Comtesse d’Lisle. Writing a prequel to an already existing series can be a challenge. Facts about the characters that may have been simply backstory in the…
Sugarplum Surprises is exactly the type of book I hope to read when I open a traditional Regency Romance. It has a worthy heroine who is somewhat down on her luck, a noble hero (who is the furthest thing from a cad), a fun Bath setting, period detail (and period mores), an engaging plot that…
I was hoping to read and review A Candle In The Window before Christmas-time because the “holiday spirit” literally permeates the book. Unfortunately, putting the book down after the riveting and emotional first few chapters was far too easy, and it took me over three weeks to finish this sometimes heart-tugging but all too often…
I love to find buried treasures. When I picked up this book with its silly title and cheesy, anacronistic cover (I assume those were supposed to be candles on that Christmas tree but they sure looked like electric lights to me), I didn’t have my hopes up for a good book. To my complete surprise,…
I don’t feel the holiday spirit until the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, so reading a holiday story in October was a little odd. Fortunately, when I read it I was in Vermont, where it happened to snow. I expected a sweet heartwarming tale. As a bonus, it’s also well written and surprisingly sexy. Twenty-year-old Robin…
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