Remember those episodes of Angel that were just too fight-y? The ones when all the great interactions between Angel and Cordy or Lilah and Lindsay became lost in a sea of grunts and kicks and stakings? I found myself thinking of those less than stellar moments as I read The Vampire’s Seduction, the first book…
I used to be a great fan of Stephanie Laurens and her Cynster family series. But it has been almost four years since I read a Stephanie Laurens novel. I am one of those who felt that her writing had become derivative, just a rehashing of the same characters and plot and I tired of…
I was quite happily reading Sweet Mercy when something happened that made me throw my head back and groan. Three words: The condom breaks. In retrospect, the back cover copy and coy tagline (“A secret lies between them”) on the front should have warned me, but I was still blindsided. The good news is, the…
Jan Coffey is a pseudonym for a writing couple who’ve both had experience building submarines (their romance aka is May McGoldrick). That experience is apparent in every page of their latest suspense novel. Recreating the highly technical and claustrophobic world of a modern submarine isn’t something the lay author could do, and it’s their expertise…
Reading this series has been an interesting experience. I’m never quite sure what the next book will bring to Crimson City. Although I liked the basic elements of this, the fifth book in the series, I disliked the heroine. Also, the combination of bleeding and sex just doesn’t do it for me. Yech. For those…
Curse of Brandon Lupinus is a Quickie from Ellora’s Cave. I had hopes of a fun, little ghost story; unfortunately, it mainly revolves around sex, the plot is so thin it’s hardly there, and the sex-obsessed main characters had me rolling my eyes. Jess Whittlebury falls in love with Tavistock Manor at first sight and…
Bad Boys in Kilts is a catchier title than Bland Boys in Forgettable Stories, but the latter offers a better idea of what lies in store for the reader. In Donna Kauffman’s anthology, three Scottish brothers find love in the tiny village of Glenbuie. All I found was indifference to these competent, but uninspiring tales,…
I’m three books in with The Elliotts continuity series, and I am still enjoying them. Somehow the super-short length of the books is offset by the continuity; at least one character has always been introduced in a previous book, which lets the authors jump right into the story (a necessity when the books are less…
Chamomile Mourning is the sixth book in the Tea Shop Mysteries series featuring Theodosia Browning, who runs a tea shop and sleuthes on the side. Until this point I’ve enjoyed this series and found the details of running a tea shop particularly interesting. The author’s habit of including some of Theo’s best recipes at the…
Kinley MacGregor’s new series based on the Arthurian legend explores what might have happened after Arthur’s final battle had the legend lived on in other people throughout the centuries. In MacGregor’s world, the good knights of Round Table and Morgen le Fay’s evil minions continue to do battle. It’s an interesting premise and for the…
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