Gypsy Lover tells the story of Daffyd, a secondary character from previous Layton novels. As a half-Gypsy, Daffyd doesn’t fit into either Romany or British society, and has had to make his own way in life. At the request of a family member, he agrees to search for a runaway heiress before word gets out…
Though I haven’t read any of the books in Christine Feehan’s new series, it was certainly easy to forget that since I’ve read books just like it at least a dozen times – especially in the last year or so. In that oh-so-familiar Publishers-Beating-Stuff-to-Death category, Night Game is one of those Kick-ass Men and Women…
The story of Henry VIII and his wives is a well-known one and, in most portrayals, Catherine of Aragon is shown as a victim, sometimes even a martyr of Henry’s desire for a male heir. The repeated descriptions of her as barren or as a pitiable, cast-aside wife make it hard for many readers to…
Amanda Stevens weaves a creepy tale about a marriage under siege by forces both living and dead in The Edge of Eternity. The second book in the Mists of Fernhaven series (the first is B.J. Daniels’ When Twilight Comes), it serves up some good chills, even if it’s too uneven to be entirely satisfying. Paul…
Though Crazy Cool moves along at a brisk and mostly satisfying pace, I can’t help but think how much better a book it could have been if the inner dialogue of all the characters was a shade less one-note. Still, anyone looking for an entertaining, over-the-top story featuring w-a-a—a-y larger than life (and not even…
Secrets abound among the time-traveling druidhs of northern Maine in Janet Chapman’s latest – so many secrets in fact that it is difficult to write this review without giving some of them away. Those, along with the many twists and turns the story takes, provide some entertaining moments, as well as a growing sense of…
The Dark Horse is the second book in Patricia Simpson’s series The Forbidden Tarot, about an ancient set of tarot cards that bring trouble to those who find them. Despite a fascinating premise, it turns out to be a decidedly average read. Doctoral student Claire Coulter is a gifted cryptologist, a skill she employs in…
Lisa Jackson’s Temptress is a medieval romance where the main focus is on the suspense plot, while the love story almost seems like an afterthought. I’m not a reader who minds when a romance novel is actually more suspense than romance, so that wouldn’t necessarily be a problem. But while it is a reasonably efficient…
Captain Alexander (Alec) Fraser, officer and lawyer for his Highland Regiment, has been summoned to London to demonstrate Highland broadsword fighting for the Queen’s birthday. There he sees, and becomes entranced with (though he doesn’t speak to) Kate MacCarran, a fellow Highlander in London ostensibly to lobby for relief for Scots war widows. She is…
I heard that Lynn Kerstan mixed passion and intrigue, so when her latest book, Dangerous Passions, came up for review, I snapped it up. I got passion and intrigue, but in a very unbalanced combination. Coupled with some glaring flaws in logic, Dangerous Passions quickly became an unsatisfactory read. The secret Black Phoenix organization has…
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