When I first started reading The Trophy Wife, an eighties era throwback if there ever was one, I thought someone needed to sit the author down and explain the connotations of the term. It’s certainly loaded with them. If I say trophy wife, you think younger, second wife, right? A man’s done well for himself,…
I’d tried Janette Rallison once before; that book was light, romantic Young Adult fiction. So when browsing the YA section of my local library I saw her newest book, Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List, I snagged it. I was in the mood for something light and funny, and, fortunately, the…
There will be two types of people reading this book – those who immediately recognize the American theater standard being parodied by the author and get a few chuckles from it, and those who don’t catch the send-up, take everything at face value, and wind up mightily horrified. While the romance contained here is not…
I expected a lighthearted, sexy read, but Obsession from Tori Carrington turned out to be very different; a dark and intense story that offers suspense, mystery, and a touch of the supernatural…as well as some hot love scenes. Josie Villefranche owns the Hotel Josephine, located in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The hotel has…
When I got The Husband Trap, I looked at the anachronistically coifed young lady on the cover and began to read, not expecting much. I was soon captivated, spent a dark and stormy night reading away and finished the book at one long sitting. It begins with one of the hoariest of plot devices (twins…
Romantic suspense is a weird categorization for any novel. Is being in a suspenseful situation romantic in any way? Let’s say you’ve been the only person to survive the attack of a serial killer and twelve years later you’re still driven to find him. Also on the hunt is an attractive FBI agent who you…
Veteran Ellora’s Cave author Jodi Lynn Copeland knows how to deliver red-hot sensuality, as she ably demonstrates in her new erotic romance anthology After Hours. If only the stories around those scorching sex scenes showed the same spark. Instead, each of these novellas features a standard issue romance genre premise most readers have seen many…
I like many different tones to my historicals. Sometimes I want a big, meaty epic, other times I just want to laugh, and sometimes I just want something that is beautifully emotional. Heath’s latest release definitely fits the bill for that last category. While this book has the occasional eyeroll-inducing moment, it is primarily a…
As a reviewer, I try my best to not only express my own opinion of a book, but to describe it in a way that readers likely to feel differently will know what to expect. This seems especially necessary as the limits of the romance genre continue to be pushed, increasing the chances readers may…
As I began Nadia Nichols’ Everything to Prove, I was struck by a sense of deja vu. The story of a young woman trying to prove what happened to her father who died in Alaska years earlier seemed strangely familiar at first. Then I remembered a Superromance from January by Bobby Hutchinson called Past Sins….
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