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What would you do if tucked inside the invitation to your ten-year high school reunion was a letter you’d written as an 18-year old, describing your hopes and dreams for the future - dreams you're nowhere close to fulfilling? That's the premise of Pamela Ford's Her Best Bet. While not without prob ...
Next Comes Love is a surprising complex story about a woman on the run who finds a safe haven on a small Wisconsin island. It sounds like a common enough plot-line, but the characters have an unusual depth to them - especially for a series romance. The love story takes a bit of a back seat, but it's ...
In recent years innovative romance author Theresa Weir has turned to writing straight suspense under the name Anne Frasier. As in her romances, her suspense plots mix familiar murder mystery elements with dark and unique touches. In Garden of Darkness, Frasier returns to the haunted town of Tuonela, ...
You know, just about the last thing I'm looking for when I pick up a book is 336 pages of staccato dialogue delivered by a bunch of crabby, unpleasant people. Add in a confused plot largely predicated on back story from previous books requiring a lot of really awkward exposition and the result, as y ...
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Readers who enjoyed Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series before Anita turned into a complete ego/nymphomanic will probably enjoy Blue Moon, the first in a new paranormal series by Lori Handeland. This story is a lot less bloody, but the cynical, wisecracking heroine will seem familiar.
Jessie ...
I'm extremely partial to young adult fiction. I am, of course, a children's librarian, so that's not surprising, but I don't think that you have to be a young adult or a young adult librarian to enjoy YA literature. It's quite often well written, but almost never pretentious. It often deals with ser ...
I don't usually like books with supernatural elements. I'm more of a "reality" person and like my stories grounded in the touchable, knowable world. But, against my own instincts, I found Thoroughly Kissed to be a thoroughly fun read.
Emma Lost is the original Sleeping Beauty. Her life and her be ...
I first fell in love with Sharon and Tom Curtis when I read The Windflower four years ago. I bought their entire backlist but didn't read anything that could rival, or even compare to, that masterpiece. That is, until I read The Golden Touch, written under the name Robin James.
The plot of The Go ...
Michelle Jerott won the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award for her first book, Absolute Trouble. I thoroughly enjoyed that one and wondered if she could do as well on her next book. Well, as good as Absolute Trouble was, All Night Long is even better and it is my candidate for one of th ...