Bethany Campbell is a three-time RITA winner – twice for her traditional Harlequin Romances, once for single-title romantic suspense – but it’s her books for Harlequin’s Intrigue line that are some of my favorites. I love all four of them for different reasons: Pros and Cons for its clever plot and the banter between its…
Brenda Novak’s Cold Feet is a phenomenal read, full of exemplary story-telling which completely entertains and satisfies as both romance and suspense. Madison Lieberman is struggling to make her new real estate agency succeed and to maintain stability in the life of her six-year-old daughter Brianna. Her business is not taking off as fast as…
Brenda Jackson’s newest book, The Savvy Sistahs, is a terrific read about finding friendship when you most need it, and finding love when your heart is ready. It’s a “keeper” in the truest sense. The book’s savvy sistahs are Amber Stuart, Branda Bennett, and Carla Osborne. The three met when they formed a support group…
I have read Karen Templeton before and enjoyed her, so I was glad to have the opportunity to review her newest, Playing for Keeps. At the very least, I knew the book would be readable and chock full of down-to-earth characters. Templeton has a knack for making the mundane details of the everyday come to…
In the romance-novel industry, the word “sweet” signifies that a book has no sex scenes. In that sense, the word does not apply to Cabin Fever by Marilyn Pappano, as the characters do make love. But in every other sense of the word, this is an extremely sweet book. A sheltered Arkansas woman named Nolie…
Shore Lights is a lovely book about family, the relationships between parents and children, and how some feelings go unsaid when you just can’t find the words to express them. Hopefully I can do a little better than the characters in that regard in this review. Maddy Bainbridge and her mother Rose never got along….
I picked up Saving Dr. Ryan because several of my colleagues have had great things to say about Templeton’s books. Well, either I chose the worst possible book to start with, or this is a case of serious taste differences. I kept thinking of my reading experience in terms of a personality clash; I just…
Last year I discovered Karen Templeton and glommed her books. I enjoyed all of them, fell in love with the town of Spruce Lake, Michigan, where most of them are set, and put her on my automatic buy list. When I began What A Man’s Gotta Do, I was happy to see it takes place…
The Dress Lodger is a tour de force, a boldly imaginative novel that is nonetheless based on fact. Reading it is like biting into a rich, dark chocolate: almost too delicious to bear, all sorts of scents and tastes rushing throughout your mind. The writing is sumptuous, conjuring up the period with a wry, unerringly…
I was pleased to review The Boy Next Door because I read and enjoyed the authors’ previous American release Come Together. I’m happy to say that their new one is even better. This story is absorbing and touching, the dual first-person narrative device still works well, and this story isn’t quite so gritty in its…
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