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  • Ghost Hunter

    I’ve been reading Castle/Krentz/Quick for so many years now that it takes something extraordinary from her to stick in my mind. For those that have been reading the Castle books set on Harmony, there is really nothing new here. It was like settling in with an old friend: comforting, but not truly exciting or different,…

  • Heiress Beware

    Can you even have a continuity series without an amnesia story? Amnesia has been a romance staple for some time, and every time we run across it, we know we’ll have to suspend our disbelief. The question is not if we will have to suspend it, but how much. In this case, the answer (at…

  • The Beckoners

    The Beckoners is a Young Adult novel about girls bullying girls. Its title is the only subtle or evocative thing about it; the book itself is violent, bleak, and disturbing. Zoe Anderson is once again the new girl in town. Her mother’s erratic employment and personal history has resulted in Zoe’s complete lack of a…

  • The Kept Woman

    Okay, I’ll admit the premise is straight out of Harlequin Presents: A single mom struggling to support her three kids by working as hairstylist is hired to pose as the fiancé of a millionaire Senatorial candidate. Hackneyed, no? But in the hands of a talented author even the creakiest of premises can result in an…

  • Be Mine Tonight

    There’s nothing really wrong with Be Mine Tonight, but there’s just nothing really great about it either. The first in a series of books featuring a band of 14th century warriors-turned-vampires, the author known for her historical romances turns a competent, if a bit uninspired, hand to paranormal romantic fiction with a bit of a…well,…

  • Burning Tigress by Jade Lee

    All through my reading Burning Tigress I shook my head at this missed opportunity. Author Jade Lee is a good writer with a strong knowledge of 19th century Shanghai. When she’s describing the Chinese scolding each other and struggling with life among English people whom they detest, she is marvelous. In this fourth book in…

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