Blended families are tough, especially in romance. When the kids are perfect, the books are too sweet. When they are impossible, you wonder why the two primaries are bothering anyway. But what if they are adults? Is the family still blended if the “kids” being spoken of are all grown up? In the case of…
Her Secret Fling is a well-written, promising book that only just misses the mark. It starts out with an intriguing conflict and sexual chemistry to spare – and then descends into a plot and conflict that I find particularly annoying. Poppy Birmingham is an Australian gold medal swimmer forced to retire by a shoulder injury….
The Right Mr. Wrong is the second book Cindi Myer set in Crested Butte, Colorado (following Marriage on Her Mind). It’s a quick, light read, and though the main characters have a fair amount of baggage from their past, the book is not filled with angst or deep emotions. While I enjoyed the heroine, though,…
Stephanie Doyle’s The Contestant is set against the backdrop of a reality TV show. Fittingly, the book itself is much like most reality shows: easily digested, sporadically entertaining, but also rather empty and unsatisfying. It gets off to a promising start. In the prologue, the author introduces us to Talia Mooney, an Olympic diver competing…
A bad cover and a terrible title can often conceal a wonderful romance. In the case of Fire Beneath The Ice a good title and a beautiful cover conceal a very clumsy book. The premise is intriguing and one we don’t often see in a romance – the first few months after a marriage. But…
Have you ever read one of those series romances? You know, the kind of book with overblown, “everyman” heroes (like the charming cowboy turned award-winning journalist turned top-of-the-line firefighter)? Or the one about the assertive heroine, just soft enough on the inside, who carries on an “I hate you, make love to me” kind of…
With early Elizabeth Lowell, it’s a hit or miss proposition. The many series romances I’ve read by her that were written in the 1980’s are all replete with “Lowell-speak,” that type of purple prose that goes way over the top, as well as the heightened sensuality that, if it were real life, would cause the…
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