Myths and fairy tales have a soft spot in the heart of many a reader. I remember very clearly whiling away my childhood hours with Edith Hamilton’s Mythology or selected volumes of The New Junior Classics. There’s something very satisfying about a story with a point, a story told to illustrate and perpetuate virtuous behavior….
I have more than a few Linda Lael Miller novels on my favorites list. Since her name is in a bigger font than the title of this book, it is probably a safe bet to say that she shows up on many people’s favorites lists. It is disappointing that The Man from Stone Creek will…
I picked up The Stork Reality because the premise – a young, married professional woman dealing with an unexpected pregnancy – was intriguing to me. I admit that I was a little afraid that it would suffer from what my husband and I jokingly call the “Newsweek covering the baby boomers” phenomenon; or in other…
I can’t remember whether I’ve ever read a romance novel set in Chile. The atypical setting was enough reason for me to snatch up Charlotte Maclay’s romantic adventure Make No Promises, though the promise of a strong heroine and tortured mercenary hero certainly didn’t hurt. This is Maclay’s single-title debut after a long run of…
Chosen Target is the first book I’ve read set in New Orleans post-Katrina. While the southern city has long been a popular setting for romance, especially paranormals, there seems to be some politically correct hesitation in recreating its fictional counterpoint. Author Melanie Atkins, however, dives right in, and uses the post-traumatic stress the city is…
About halfway through Love Is All You Need, I realized its humor was closely akin to slapstick. I’d made a few judgments about the unlikely nature of the character’s responses when I found myself easily accepting the fact that the heroine had just slugged the hero. I didn’t think he deserved it but he didn’t…
By far the thing I most liked about The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men was its title. It promised so much and delivered little other than a few aggravating plot elements, including a heroine I could not like or empathize with although I tried – I really tried. Unfortunately the spunky title had nothing…
I adore a good Harlequin Historical. Make it a good Western Historical and I am in heaven. So when I saw that my three favorite Western Harlequin Historical authors were going to be in an anthology together, I was beyond excited. Two of the authors came through, although the first didn’t live up to my…
The Little Lady Agency found its way to me in a convoluted fashion. AAR’s Blythe Barnhill included it with a batch of other books, enclosing a note saying, “Thought this one looked fun.” Fun is indeed a good adjective for what we have here: a book about disguises and playing at who you’d like to…
Midnight Secrets is a gothic tale that takes place on the Cornwall coast in an atmospheric castle inhabited by a very mysterious and elusive master. Too elusive a master for my tastes, for, as the story is told in the first person by the heroine, we don’t get to know the hero very well at…
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