I can only attest to reading one of Kathleen Eagle’s books in the past and it moved so slowly that I was hesitant to try another. Therefore, I must admit that as I began to read Ride a Painted Pony, I was a bit surprised by not only its ability to garner my total attention…
Since reading Delicious, the first in this series, I have been anticipating Reid’s story and was delighted when I was given the opportunity to review this third installment in the Buchanan series. Not only does this book feature the bad boy of the Buchanans, it also offers the reader a different perspective on the past…
What you start out with here is definitely not what you ultimately get. With opening scenes decidedly on the wacky side, Natural Born Charmer soon evolves into the story of a group of wounded people coming to terms with themselves and the mess they’ve made (with the help of others) of their lives. And, yes,…
It takes a certain kind of writer to develop a cast of wacky characters without making them into caricatures. Pamela Morsi is able to do just that with the folks of Warbler’s Lake, Missouri. From the leads to the supporting cast, it is the characters and Ms. Morsi’s smooth writing that give Bitsy’s Bait &…
I picked up Deirdre Martin’s first hockey-related book simply because it was hockey-related. There’s not a whole lot of recourse for Canadian ex-pats in the land of eternal sunshine (Australia). So combining two of my great loves – hockey and romance novels – together in one cutely-covered package seemed the perfect solution. However, even my…
Mrs. Big promises a juicy tale – a woman who schemes to marry rich only to ponder about reforming her ways – but it badly disappoints. The heroine’s reformation is unconvincing, and I couldn’t care about her after she expresses no remorse for committing a stupid, selfish act. Loletta is a young, attractive black woman…
I read a lot of fiction and romance set in the Regency, and besides the occasional storyline of a hero coming back from fighting Boney on the Peninsula, I never gave much thought to what else was going on in the world while Lady This and Lord That took a turn around the room. The…
It has been a while since I picked up a book and wondered why I bothered staying with it all the way to the bitter end. This haphazardly plotted novel about a restaurant family in London featured an irritating heroine and enough awkward plotting to make it close to unreadable. Add in the fact that…
What an odd, unsettling little book How I Live Now is. Should I be surprised that this received the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult fiction? It seems all of the YA award winners these days are for stories that push the envelope. And this one does. It really does. Daisy has…
The promise of a truly strong heroine was all I needed to pick up Beverly Jenkins’s Sexy/Dangerous. Max Blake more than lived up to her billing in one of the more solidly enjoyable 2006 romances I’ve read. Dr. Adam Gary is on the verge of a landmark scientific breakthrough that has made him the target…
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