NOTE: This book is out of print. Isn’t it amazing what tiny details one remembers from one’s school days? Whereas whole years of chemistry and physics seem to have left my brain remarkably untouched, I couldn’t help thinking of a short quote from Oscar Wilde while I was reading Michaela August’s House of Memory. Reading…
Okay. I’ll admit it. When I read the back cover blurb on my ARC and discovered that I had to read a book about some nobleman forced to take his dead great-uncle’s bastard children and launch them into society, I thought I was going to be in for something trite and downright painful. Thank goodness…
How is it that Linda Castillo can write such good single-title romantic suspense and such lame series romances? I’ve come to the conclusion that she’s either phoning in her series books or a different, lesser, writer is penning them under her name. Operation: Midnight Guardian, the third in her Midnight series, offers further proof toward…
I pride myself on keeping pretty up to date on what’s forthcoming in all the genres I like to read, yet somehow I missed a new series by a favorite author. Missing new books by an author you like is a very bad thing. But once you discover the books, well, that’s like found money….
The White Star series promised twists and turns and red-hot romance, but for the most part it has failed to deliver. April’s Into Temptation by Jeanie London was the exception, a great read that raised my hopes that the series would start to pick up steam. Instead, Shannon Hollis’s Full Circle is a return to…
It’s a bad thing when a good book derails. It’s especially bad when a pleasantly retro romance with a unique setting doesn’t merely go off track, but instead careens wildly between bratty behavior by the previously forthright heroine, an otherwise likable hero turning into a Neanderthal, and some truly excruciatingly sugary scenes featuring the adorable…
Making Mischief is rather inaccurately titled. Its cover shows a young woman drawing on a photo of an attractive man with lipstick. The implication is that she’s deliberately (and sexily) making him a laughingstock. And it was likely this implication which kept the book sitting in my TBR pile for months. I’ve enjoyed Elizabeth Young’s…
The Taming of the Duke is a novel full of promise and intriguing main characters, but ultimately spoiled by too many ingredients. Too many side characters and subplots compete with each other for attention. Moreover, the transitions by which chapters shuffled from one subplot to another was far too jarring, destroying the momentum created as…
Since most romantic suspense seems geared toward crime and action with little rumination on the moral issues of crime and punishment, I was not quite sure what to expect from an inspirational romantic suspense novel. For obvious reasons, a novel written with a consideration of the Christian life would have to view a suspense plot…
Even if there’s nothing outstanding or truly out of the ordinary here, Hide in Plain Sight is, nevertheless, a satisfying novel of romantic suspense. I’ve enjoyed Michele Albert in the past, but I haven’t kept up with the author’s books centering on a group of black market art recovery operatives. Fortunately, even though a few…
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