Do women really compare Valentine’s Day trophies at their workplaces, gloating when they receive roses, diamonds, or chocolate, and sinking into depression and humiliation if they don’t have an attentive boyfriend or husband? I’ve never seen this (perhaps I just haven’t worked at the right places), but I can vouch for the general cluelessness of…
Slow Motion features reasonably lengthy two novellas starring nice-guy heroes. The first, by Wayne Jordan, is somewhat overstuffed and would have worked better in series length. Devon Vaughn Archer’s contribution was marred by overly descriptive writing and may have been better served as a shorter story.
Medieval romances aren’t exactly crowding the shelves of bookstores nowadays, so I was happy to pick one up for review. With Heart of the Dove, Laura Adrian/Tina St. John concludes her Dragon Chalice series. Rand of Greycliff has only one purpose in life now: revenge. Two months ago, the evil knight Silas de Mortaine sent…
The cover for Hostile Makeover makes it look like a romance, but really this is Chick Lit in disguise. Shelley Schwartz has played at being an account supervisor at her father’s advertising company for a good long time. The problem is, she regularly sabotages herself in her father’s eyes. Rather than take her job seriously, she…
By now I really should know better than to take Harlequin’s promos to heart and realize its continuities are seldom as cool as they sound. Somehow I never learn. The ads for the new White Star series proclaimed, “If you loved The DaVinci Code, Harlequin Blaze brings you a continuity with just as many twists…
I’ve read comic books for years, and worked in a bookstore when the manga craze hit. I knew how popular they were, but I hadn’t read any manga, so when Blythe said that she had some Harlequin novels in manga form, I asked for one. Harlequin Violet: Response is based on one of Penny Jordan’s…
Sometimes I’m just in the mood for a good tearjerker – a romance that is touching and emotional and shows how powerfully love can change someone’s life. Redemption is that kind of book. The plot has its rough spots, but the romance is ultimately very sweet and well worth the time spent reading. Since the…
I am going to have to go back and read Much Ado About You, the first book in this series about the Essex sisters. I’ll admit to being a bit lost, but only a bit. This was a sparkling book with delightful characters – both primary and secondary. There are two more Essex sisters and…
Jane Feather is a longtime favorite of mine. Even when her books are not complete hits (Almost Innocent and the Duncan Sisters trilogy, there’s something about the strength of her writing that gets me every time. When she is on her game, she skillfully intertwines historical fact, intrigue, and romance in a way that is…
I liked it! I really liked it! Though I’m not quite ready to declare that Susan Johnson is back – it will take more than one good book to wipe away the memory of the past few years – When You Love Someone is a compulsively readable historical romance that did bring to mind the…
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