I’ve been having a bit of unlucky streak over the last few months when it comes to new-to-me authors others seem to love. I couldn’t be happier to report that Jennifer Ashley seems to have broken it. In some ways hard to define, The Mad, Bad Duke felt a little like an old-fashioned romance. Hero…
For reasons having more to do with time rather than with my level of interest in her books, I’d never before read Anne Gracie. My reaction to my first book by the author is a bit of a mixed bag. To put it bluntly, my biggest problem is that The Perfect Kiss seems like an…
Unquestionably, Melody Thomas is the best of Avon’s newer writers and she continues her winning streak in her latest release. This, book, though, isn’t without its challenges. During the first fifty pages or so, I was afraid that Wild and Wicked in Scotland was going to be one of those frustrating mistaken identity books in…
Do-Over is the third book in a series about Valerie Winslow, a fifteen-year-old girl living with her father in the fictitious European country of Schwerinborg shortly after her parents’ divorce. Although it’s not vitally important to have read the previous books, it would help to know more about the past story to understand some references…
There has been a lot of talk this year about the “Avonization” of romance novels. When people say that, the first author who usually comes to mind, for me, is Stephanie Laurens. Since To Distraction is her 20th book for Avon, perhaps it’s no wonder that for me they’ve become almost synonymous…but no longer in…
Beyond the Boardroom is the culmination of the year-long Elliotts continuity series, but don’t expect great fanfare here. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing. The book isn’t over-run by past couples (in fact, barely any show up), and the focus is definitely on the hero and heroine. So while it may be a bit…
I rarely read Western or Americana romances. For whatever reason, the era doesn’t appeal to me. But rifling through a box of books, I came across Waiting for Summer’s Return. By description it sounded a bit like Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke, a classic in the Inspirational Romance genre. So I thought, why not?…
I look forward to each new book by Lorraine Heath, as several of her Texas-set historicals are on my keeper shelf. Unfortunately in A Duke of Her Own, Heath fell short for me with a book that, while enjoyable, was completely predictable – and a plot that has been used too often before. In fact,…
Murder in the North End is the fifth book in P.B. Ryan’s Nell Sweeney mystery series set in post-Civil War Boston. While this series has been generally quite enjoyable overall, this new installment is weaker than the others, and the lack of romantic denouement feels forced. Nell Sweeney is still acting as a governess/substitute mother…
Unlike many of the vampire romances filling the shelves, the author of Watchers in the Night does not glamorize her undead characters. In Ms. Black’s world, vampires who feed off humans become addicted to the killing, and become menacing Killers. Other vampires who manage to subsist without killing humans are known as Guardians and they…
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