I love adventure stories. I didn’t realize that the Silhouette Bombshell books were adventure stories when I picked up one for review. While I enjoyed the solid, intricate adventure plot in Cindy Dees’s Haunted Echoes, the scant attention paid to its romance irritated and disappointed me. Jobs for art historians aren’t plentiful, which is why…
Belle Jamison is having a bad day. Arriving at her coffee shop job late again, she maneuvers out of being fired only to be slipped a drug in her grande mocha latte by a strange doctor being chased by men “trying to kill him.” Belle doesn’t realize she’s been drugged and falls deathly ill for…
Marta Acosta’s debut has potential. While this one didn’t knock my socks off, I will keep my eye out for future books by this author. She was able to combine Chick Lit with a hint of paranormal very well. And this was a book that improved as it went along; as much as I disliked…
Vampires in Vegas! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this yet and if they did, why haven’t I heard anything? The premise had almost everything I love in a book: vamps, humor and hot lovin’. I hoped and prayed this would be a winner but it wasn’t. Erin McCarthy just didn’t pull through this time around,…
The Slightest Provocation is an “Anything But” book. As I waded through it, I kept wishing I was doing anything but reading it. At one point, I was so bored I decided to take a break and scrub my bathtub. The half hour I spent doing so was more interesting, satisfying and enjoyable than any…
The early sections of The Book of True Desires set up a premise so tantalizing I actually experienced a giddy rush of anticipation. But while Betina Krahn takes readers on an interesting journey in this romantic adventure, I ultimately couldn’t help thinking that some better company would have improved the trip. In order to fund…
Two years after Harlequin Intrigue launched its Gothic romance promotion Eclipse, Blaze gets in the game with its own Gothic line “It Was a Dark and Sexy Night…” Cindi Myers’s Fear of Falling kicks things off, and while I appreciated several things about it, it ultimately fell a little short. On the plus side, it…
I expected this book to be a guilty pleasure – the kind of book that you enjoy even though you know you shouldn’t. But though the love scenes were hot, the story was simply too thin and the characters too flat to meet even that level of expectation. Mark Sullivan is a CPA, not an…
The “Bad Boys” in the title of this new anthology in the long-running Brava Bad Boys series is actually a bit of a misnomer. Texas is true enough – all three stories take place in the little town of Silver Gulch. But the heroes of the story, the so-called “Bad Boys,” are, in fact, all…
Those of you who have been complaining of cookie cutter romances – run out and get Hope Tarr’s Vanquished. It may be set in England during the Victorian period, but it’s very far from the usual historical romance. This is a serious and sometimes gritty book with a most unusual hero and heroine. Harry Stone…
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