A premise involving a vampire who faints at the sight of blood has the potential to be either a nightmare of silliness or a fun, quirky read. Fortunately, in Lynsay Sands’ hands, the tale of Lissianna Argeneau and Dr. Gregory Hewitt is more of the latter. The Argeneau family provides a witty, breezy read for…
The Texan’s Reward is Jodi Thomas’ fourth book in the Texans series. This book focuses on the Nell a free-spirited business woman, and Jacob, a Texas Ranger – both of whom we met earlier in this series. Those of us who have read the other books could not wait to read the romance between Two…
In No More Playas, the sequel to The Playas Handbook, Lance Montgomery, the self-titled biggest playa, has to change his ways in order to win back the woman of his dreams. Lance blew his chance with Dr. Asia Fowler in a moment of panic when the thought of commitment scared the living daylights out of…
What a difference a book makes. Ms. Liu’s debut book Tiger Eye was a bit of a disappointment. Though many loved the shape-shifter/X-Men plotting, what I came away with was more akin to frustration than anything else. The imaginative storyline was appealing (indeed, it motivated me to read this sophomore effort) but all I could…
Wild and irresponsible Grant Chandler, disowned younger son to a duke, met an equally reckless Sophie Huntington during her first Season. They fell madly in love and scandalized the ton with their antics. After they gave in to their desires and consummated the relationship, Grant asked Sophie to marry him. She refused and married his…
The Lady Is Mine is a completely traditional “trad” Regency in every way…until the reader gets to the love scenes, which would not be out of place in a Regency-set historical. The hero and heroine engage in deliciously improper behavior each time they find themselves alone (thankfully they are betrothed the whole time), and are…
Though historical romance settings are (sadly) no longer as varied as they used to be, there are still some good Americana writers out there. Wendy Lindstrom’s Grayson Brothers series is definitely a pleasant one. The books stand alone well, so if you start the series in the middle as I did, it is not a…
Undead and Unreturnable is the fourth Betsy Taylor book, the chronicles of a shoe-obsessed secretary who gets hit by a car and wakes up as undead Queen of the Vampires. This would obviously freak out most people, and Betsy’s (mis)adventures as she tries to cope with drinking blood and sleeping all day and her new…
Duncan Hillston is a player. He’s the kind of guy who bags women and then brags about his conquests to his buddies, embroidering the details with each telling. He rationalizes his behavior by telling himself that he brings a little light to his friends’ lives – they get to live vicariously through him. But his…
I have read several of Kay David’s Harlequin Superromance books and thought they were pretty good. They were much better than Not Without Proof. When I find myself more interested in the heroine’s explanation of how the diamond cartel functions than in her relationship with the hero, I know a book has fizzled in the…
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