Eleven on Top is silly, but since it’s a Stephanie Plum mystery, silly is mandatory, so readers who want a non-silly mystery should pick up a P.D. James novel instead. Me – I like Stephanie and the gang, and I was in the mood for silliness. I found myself laughing a lot at this one….
I haven’t read a Garwood book for a long, long time. I loved her historicals, but haven’t picked up one of her romantic suspense novels. I have to say I enjoyed her historicals much more than this offering. Since I haven’t read any of the others, I’m not sure if Slow Burn is a good…
In a genre often accused of being too focused on small-town sheriffs, secret babies, and cowboys, the first novel in Kristin Hardy’s Holiday Hearts series is a breath of fresh air. Her protagonists – a captain in the Boston Fire Department and an engineer – are mature, intelligent, and quite likable. As the story opens,…
I’d heard a little buzz online about how good the new YA vampire novel, Twilight, was. Since I love vampire stories and I love YA lit, I put a library hold on a copy pronto. Young adult authors are allowed to break the rules a bit more than romance authors, so I hoped for good…
My expectations of All Night Inn by Janet Miller were sky-high. I’m an avid reader of vampire fiction, and I’ve read some wonderful books by this author under her pseudonym Cricket Starr. All Night Inn was a sure bet, I thought. Unfortunately, I lost that bet. Sharon Colson, a psychic and a singer, is broke…
At one point in this book, Charles Summerson’s friend Jack says to him: “Summerson, I will never figure out how your mind works.” I never did figure Charles out, and he quite ruined the book for me. Beatrice Sinclair is 23 years old and almost on the shelf despite being quite a diamond. She’s beautiful,…
For anyone who ever dreamed of stepping out of their mundane everyday life and living a grand adventure as someone else, M.J. Rodgers serves up that irresistible fantasy in The Adventuress. Librarian Pamela Gibson has a secret life neither her overprotective parents nor her stolid fiance knows about. She’s the author of the wildly successful…
I can’t remember the last time a book depressed me as much as this one did. Not because it’s a three-hanky weeper with a sad ending (although it is), but because I really, really disliked it. Normally that would be all well and good, but I kept running into people who told me they loved…
Go ahead and judge this book by its cover. It looks like every other Avon romance you’ve read in the last five years, and that’s how it reads as well. That’s not to say it’s bad, because it isn’t. It’s merely unoriginal. Katherine Fleming is on the verge of marrying Cole Mallory when the unthinkable…
A Matter of Temptation is the heartrending story of one man’s reemergence into life after enduring years of unbelievable cruelty at the hands of his brother. While the heroine does play a part in the redemption of his tortured soul, she primarily acts as mere romantic window dressing in the life of the hero. Although…
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