Historical author Hope Tarr makes her contemporary debut with It’s a Wonderfully Sexy Life, the third of Harlequin’s Extreme Blazes. This holiday-themed tale makes a few missteps, but overall it’s an enjoyable read. Baltimore cop Mandy Delinski doesn’t think she has much to celebrate this Christmas. It’s starting to look like she’ll never make detective,…
Outside of politics and religion, few subjects seem as emotionally charged as weight and body size – especially for women. When my husband asked me the title of the book I was reading, and I told him it was Size 12 is Not Fat, his first response was, “Sure it is. If you were size…
Stacy Kavanaugh is just trying to get on with her life. Hopefully just days, if not hours, away from negotiating the final property settlement with her soon-to-be-ex husband Daniel, she decides to give into his latest requests – the fondue set and pasta machine. Dealing with him or his bimbo girlfriend has become too much…
Ain’t No Valley is proof that the inspirational sub-genre is expanding its horizons. Sharon Ewell Foster has little in common with Lori Wick. Her characters are more flawed, more urban, less traditional, and certainly less white bread. The bread here is thick, warm, and full flavored. Unfortunately, the plot, such as it is, meanders, drags,…
I have always been a sucker for the old-fashioned “governess-finds-love-with-her employer” plot. Nothing fancy, you mind. Give me a plain governess, some kind of troubled aristocrat, a bit of forbidden love and chances are, I am a happily engaged reader (personally, I blame it all on Charlotte Brontë). Admittedly, this might not be the most…
Rexanne Becnel becomes the latest historical romance author to try her hand at contemporary women’s fiction with Old Boyfriends. Part of the new Harlequin Next series fiction line for “older women” (older than 35 that is), it’s a decent read, if a little too uneven for me to recommend wholeheartedly. M.J., Bitsey, and Cat are…
Anne Gracie burst upon the romance scene in 2001 with two stellar books, Tallie’s Knight and The Gallant Waif. It has been three long years since she has had a new novel published, but she is back with The Perfect Rake, the first book in a new series about the Merridew sisters. After their parents…
Advertising Executive Lucy Cunningham sells one of her accounts on the idea of doing a makeover of a hapless overweight woman in “real time.” Little did she guess that the guinea pig would be her. When she shows up to meet her gorgeous trainer Theo Redmond looks like Malibu Ken and is training a super…
The reality TV show craze has passed me by, I have to admit, and so I opened this book warily. A woman with self-esteem issues wants to publish her body-fat index on the Internet? She wants to get weighed on live TV? But then the hero strolled in, and oh my, he melted more than…
I’m something of a sucker for Sherrilyn Kenyon. Although I don’t believe this is the strongest book in Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series – mainly due to confusion with her background mythology – I still had a great time reading about Vane and Bride. It was also refreshing to have a “less than perfect” heroine, and…
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