Vampires and satire. What could be more fun? I went into this tale of a reluctant vampire huntress hoping for a fun diversion. While it did have a few funny moments, the book also featured historical missteps that yanked me right out of the story and comedy which did not hit the spot for me…
I bought [the hardcover release of] Mystic and Rider almost a year ago, yet it sat on my bedside table until last week. I’m a big fan of Sharon Shinn’s writing, but I just kept picking this one up, reading a page or two and then putting it down. I think it was the cover…
Harlequin Intrigue’s Eclipse line of gothic romances must not be selling well, since the publisher makes every attempt to hide the fact that the latest entry is part of it. The word Eclipse doesn’t appear anywhere on the cover or inside text of Elle James’s Beneath the Texas Moon, and only the tiny Eclipse moon…
Earlier this month I picked up Leanne Banks’ Billionaire’s Proposition, and since I enjoyed it I decided to try something totally different for me – following a continuity series. The Elliotts series is about a wealthy family in publishing, whose patriarch announces his retirement and throws out a challenge to determine his successor. This month’s…
Good Girls Don’t reminded me a bit of Sex In the City. As I’m not a fan of the show, I didn’t warm up to St. John’s lead characters. Call me old-fashioned, but I think that there needs to be something more to a relationship than good looks and great sex, plus the heroine’s job…
In Deadly Kisses Brenda Joyce continues the saga of the investigating career of socialite Francesca Cahill. Francesca is engaged to Calder Hart at the beginning of the book, but they are both immediately plunged into a murder involving his former mistress which threatens their lives and love. Calder had agreed to let his ex-mistress, Daisy…
Bad Boys Ahoy! is pretty much what you should expect from the long running Brava series. It is fun, fast and full of the other f-word I don’t think the filters will let me use. In fact this might be a little more sex than the typical Bad Boy reader is used to, but Sylvia…
Lady X’s Cowboy is a fish out of water story about an American cowboy in Victorian London. It has its charms, as well as its problems. Olivia, Lady Xavier was left a brewery, among other enterprises, by her late husband, a baronet who bought his title. Restless, she read and did research and when her…
Fiona Brand may go down as one of the fastest flame-outs in recent memory. After bursting onto the romance scene with her impressive first three books, Cullen’s Bride, Heart of Midnight, and Blade’s Lady, she regressed with the mediocre Marrying McCabe, then got even worse with the dreadful Gabriel West: Still the One. I skipped…
I have several of Leanne Banks’s series romances on my comfort read shelf, and I’ve always loved her funny and sexy stories. But I never warmed up to the hero and heroine of Underfoot and the story was forgettable. This one was a major disappointment. Carter-Aubrey Katherine (Trina) Roberts (will someone explain how you get…
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