librarian
I'm thinking of issuing a fatwa against all writers who portray librarians as repressed sex pots. I'm a librarian, and while it's interesting to see how my profession is portrayed in fiction, especially romance, too many romance writers tend to use the librarian as an archetype for the surface-frigi ...
She's The One presents an interesting storyline - a successful, single, black thirty-something librarian suddenly finds herself named guardian of an old friend's biracial daughter. But the characters fail to draw sympathy, and the story falls on the flat side, despite a lively (if uneven) plot.
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Move over, Buffy . . . Step aside, Xena . . . Zoë Smith's the new super gal in town! Ahhh, those marketing folks. They'll say just about anything to make a sale, won't they? Well, after reading about Zoë's adventures I don't think Buffy and Xena need to worry about retiring and settling ...
There's nothing as irresistible as a larger-than-life hero: a demon Earl, a maurading Viking, a devil-may-care race car driver. But sometimes I'm in the mood for someone a little more - real. You know, someone who could actually interact with me. In The Master's Plan, LaVerne St. George delivers a s ...
The Observatory is boring. It is whiny. It's characters are lifeless and dull. The cover blurb insists it is written "In the romantic tradition of The Bridges of Madison County and The Notebook..." Well, I should have slammed the cover shut right then and there.
Liz and Harper Mallory are twi ...
Rachel Lee has made Conard County, Wyoming her own little corner of the world. The cast of characters who live there - Nate Tate the sheriff, Maude at the diner, Reverend Fromberg at the Community Church, have become old and dear friends and I eagerly await each book so I can see them again.
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Romeo & Julia is the antithesis of the “sweet savage romance,” which is why I enjoyed it as much as I did. There’s not a lot of ugly, melodramatic conflict. There’s no overwhelming “I hate you, but I lust after you anyway” passion. Instead, there’s a hero who’s quite a bit younge ...
This was an impulse buy, and like many impulses, I lived to regret giving in to it. There really isn't anything wrong with the book - but there isn't really anything right about it, either. It's just boring. The characters are boring, the story is boring, the writing is boring.
It's been four ...
When I read this touchingly funny, passionately sexy book as one of the early (#25) Loveswepts, I knew immediately that it was probably the best, the most definitive romance novel - particularly "category" romance - that I'd ever find.
Lightning was such an outstanding book that it made it hard t ...