As Harlequin inexplicably tries to make its already short books even shorter, I’ve become accustomed to opening its books and finding huge print and margins. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the series books I’ve read of late have subsequently been more shallow, less developed, and less satisfying. So whenever I open a series book these days…
Billionaires Prefer Blondes is the third in Suzanne Enoch’s series starring “reformed” art thief Samantha Jellicoe and her billionaire boyfriend Rick Addison. I haven’t read the first two books in the series (I am planning to remedy that as soon as I can), but I wasn’t at all lost. What I was, was vastly entertained….
The Rogue’s Bride is the second book in LaFoy’s trilogy about the three illegitimate daughters of a deceased duke who had arranged for the girls to be ennobled by the Queen and made wards of his heir. The eldest daughter married the new duke in Her Scandalous Marriage, so this book tells the story of…
Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving. Because Juliana Chase does not favor dark-haired men and longs for a husband who will “love her to distraction”, she immediately writes off James Trevor, the Earl of Stafford, when she meets him. Not only is he dark, but he practices medicine and actually takes his position in the…
Branded, a novella by Emma Peterson, is a reunion story about cowboy and ranch owner Ty Parsons, and Jenny, a woman who spent the last five years in California, first at veterinarian school, then running her own practice. In high school, the two were inseparable. Though he told himself she was annoying, Ty nevertheless found…
Literacy and Longing in L.A. is one of those books that I was glad to finally finish. While going through the long slog reading it, I continually eyed my TBR pile and had to convince myself those books would have to wait. That strategy only worked because I realized that if I picked up a…
With its title alone, The Wicked One may bring more than one curious reader around looking for a deliciously wicked hero as the title infers. But it’s best you understand upfront that it is only a name given to the hero for past wrongs he never committed. Though he’s seen his share of wild living,…
A guardian/ward relationship isn’t one of my favorite romance themes and a story of a young woman who swears she will never marry is even less so. But if anyone could persuade me not to avoid this type of book, it would be the author Julia Justiss, whom I can count on to be a…
This could have been an exciting mystery, but its dull execution made for a rather emotionless and methodical read. Christina Alberti is an expert in art history who specializes in gems and jewelry for an auction house in San Francisco. She’s in charge of a very valuable diamond necklace to be auctioned off that several…
I loved Ms. Snyder’s first Luna book (Poison Study) so much that I was counting the months and days until the sequel came out. Imagine my disappointment when I got the book and didn’t love it like I had the first. What was fresh and sparkling in book one came through as somewhat forced in…
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