Sometimes I come across a book that I desperately want to like, but even if I give it every chance in the world to thrill me, I just can’t make myself recommend it. Maidensong is one of those books. It has so many unique elements going for it – non-English characters, an amazing setting, a…
Hot Ticket features three tales with sports stars as the heroes and one tale that’s set at a game. One story is about hockey, one about football and two about baseball (what, no NASCAR)? I used to complain about the dearth of romances featuring sports figures as heroes, but it’s getting easier to find them…
Urban Shaman was one of my favorite Fantasy reads last year, so I was excited to get my hands on an advance copy of its sequel. These books are written in the first person, and Murphy does a very good job of portraying an edgy, snarky, and eccentric character without going too far over the…
I’ll admit it, I like romances set in smallish towns. I’m just not hip urban Blaze kind of woman. I used to enjoy Rachel Lee’s series romances set in Conard County, Wyoming, but now that she isn’t writing them anymore, I’ve found a new place to visit – Dundee, Idaho – the site of a…
The cover totally did its job with this one. I took one look at all the cute little pugs in Central Park, and I knew I had to read it. I have two very cute pugs myself, so I am admittedly biased in this regard. The plot was secondary, really. Happily, I found the book…
Tracy Anne Warren’s The Husband Trap was a light and charming book. Its sequel, The Wife Trap is light as well, but the charm isn’t there. The heroine is the spoiled sister from The Husband Trap, and in my review of that book, I said she’d have to undergo a lot of rehabilitation in order…
I really enjoyed The Spanish Bride, the first book in Berkley’s Wives of Henry VIII series written under the group pseudonym of Laurien Gardner, and the latest entry in the series also does not disappoint. This particular Laurien Gardner novel was written by Jennifer Ashley, an author normally associated with lighter romance, but in her…
When it comes to erotic fiction, I’m prepared to encounter sexual material that may not necessarily appeal to me. After all, it’s pretty much anything goes in erotica, so I try to keep an open mind. But I’m never prepared to deal with flat, unappealing characters, an awkward narrative style, and/or a story that moves…
Don’t you just love it when a big, braw, kilt-wearing, Medieval laird is knocked for a loop and completely flummoxed by a small, feisty redhead? I know I do. But when the laird in question has been dead for 700 years, romance becomes a very complicated proposition. Victoria McKinnon, who produces and directs a small…
Lucy Blue has gotten some good buzz on the our message boards and I’m happy to find that buzz warranted, for The Devil’s Knight is an exciting, great read. Rebel brigands attack the partially finished castle belonging to Tristan, a Norman nobleman, and because the peasants inside help them, they succeed in breaching the defenses….
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