The Amazon description of Step Into Darkness called the book “a Gothic romance” and its hero “an infamous thief.” That was all I needed to know to ask to review it. It didn’t take me long to discover this isn’t really a gothic romance, nor is the hero truly a thief. Normally, such dashed expectations…
Wanted is a Western with a former outlaw as the heroine. After a long stretch of reading nothing but European Historicals, it was kind of nice to read a book set in the West. This one was decent enough, but nothing exceptional. The Reno gang has fallen on hard times. While the ringleaders languish in…
Queen of Diamonds is the third book in Barbara Metzger’s House of Cards trilogy; it traces the story of the kidnapped Lady Charlotte Endicott. Charlotte was three when a man with a gun – professing to love her mother – caused a carriage accident that killed her mother and all other occupants but her. The…
True confessions time: When I found out I was going to have to read a book about a poet and some magical telepathic guy, I was a little bit less than enthused. I expected all kinds of silliness and hokey mysticism and I was very wrong. When You Believe has its less than believable moments,…
The number of series romance authors who are auto buys for me is shrinking down to a very few, but Marilyn Pappano is still one of them. When I saw Somebody’s Hero on the shelf, I snapped it up immediately. It is very loosely connected to two of her earlier titles, Somebody’s Baby and Somebody’s…
Calamity Jayne Rides Again is the second book by Kathleen Bacus in her light mystery/romance series. The heroine, her love interest, and the secondary characters are all nice, decent people. They are also quite uninteresting to read. Tressa Turner never minds working at her Uncle Frank’s ice cream stands during the Iowa State Fair. She…
I haven’t read a Susan Johnson novel, other than an anthology contribution or two, since 1999’s To Please a Lady, the sequel to my favorite Johnson book – Outlaw (1993). I was surprised to find When Someone Loves You almost completely devoid of a plot for its two engaging leads, and with no hot love…
For a novel that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, Tempting the Wolf was generally enjoyable. I included time travel as the type of romance because the back cover blurb mentions it, but truly it has no impact on the story whatsoever and any traveling through time has long since happened. This is what…
What if you didn’t have to make those really big, earth-shattering decisions? What if you could have your cake and eat it too? Sarah Mlynowski explores this fantasy in her latest novel. While the premise is interesting and the writing style pleasant, there is still no way to escape the harsh fact that reading this…
Love Is Blind and so is Lady Clarissa Crambray. Or practically so. Being practically so myself, I enjoyed reading Clarissa’s story and felt an immediate empathy for the most near-sighted heroine I’ve ever read. Clarissa is in London with her horrid stepmother who is trying to get her married off this Season. She refuses to…
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