Elegance is an interesting meld of Chick Lit and Women’s fiction. It doesn’t cover a lot of new territory story wise, but has enough interesting features to make it worth a read. Louise Canova is a depressed 32-year-old in a dull marriage. The best things she can say about her relationship is that she and…
In an interesting twist, Mommy Said Goodbye is a Harlequin Superromance, but the romance is actually the least super thing about it. The love story is only one of several unfolding threads in the book, and ultimately, it’s the least interesting one. But the emotions and character drama that spring from Janice Kay Johnson’s eye-catching…
Mommy Said Goodbye is a very interesting story about how a family and a community copes with the unsolved disappearance of one of their own. Johnson skillfully explores a number of very complicated emotional issues, and that, combined with the mystery, makes this one of the more absorbing category romances I’ve read lately. A year…
I always thought of Jodi Thomas as a Western romance author or, perhaps, a Women’s Fiction writer. However, in Finding Mary Blaine, Thomas shows that she can deliver the goods on romantic suspense as well. This tale features an interesting heroine and a well-developed suspense plot and, while it had a few bobbles, it was…
This book features a mysterious house with a secret passage, a poor governess who narrates it in the first person, a dark, brooding, intense hero, and the word “mistress” is in the title. Could it be…a gothic novel? Yes it is. How is it? Well, it’s not bad, but Dorothy Eden still did it better….
When I first started to read The Perfect Match, it seemed as though the author was going to break new ground in Christian contemporary romance. Susan May Warren initially presents readers with a professional woman holding a leadership role in a male-dominated profession along with a romance in which both hero and heroine face some…
This book was flawed and a little disjointed, but at times very interesting and different. The Errant Earl is not your run of the mill Regency, which is both its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. Sometimes believability and convention were stretched a little too far for my tastes, yet the unconventional plot kept me…
Nicole Burnham’s series featuring the diTalora family of San Rimini is probably one of the best of its kind. There are certainly many imaginary principalities out there on the bookshelves, but somehow San Rimini and its ruling family manage to feel more real than most of them. By the end of this book, I had…
For those of you who have fond memories of Kasey Michaels’s traditional Regencies (and, LLB, this is for you), you have a real treat in store. In The Butler Did It, Ms. Michaels combines her delightfully over-the-top style and her finely honed sense of the absurd to deliver a fun and frolicsome Regency romp. Admittedly,…
Having heard the favorable buzz surrounding Victoria Bylin’s debut novel Of Men and Angels last year (this despite my colleague’s negative review), I eagerly snatched up her latest book. West of Heaven starts off as a touching story about two flawed and rather unglamorous people finding love and hope, but despite its many exciting and…
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