Tempting the Heiress is an unusual mixture of the author’s raw talent and her disappointingly crude technique, which resulted in awkward moments that detracted from the overall success of this story. And that’s not including the fact that unfortunately absolutely none of this talent is at all apparent until the second half of the novel,…
After reading The Pirate Next Door, I knew that I had to read the sequel featuring James Ardmore’s story. But even though I tore into The Pirate Hunter right as my copy arrived, I soon realized it could have used stronger editing; the tale is rougher than that of its predecessor and at times Ardmore’s…
Mr. Complete is the kind of book that left me more impressed with the author than the book itself. Sheridon Smythe writes with a lively and engaging style that shows she has potential for delivering a good romantic comedy, but this story doesn’t really work. When a paid escort ripped off Lydia Carmichael’s aunt Tempura,…
Bedspell has kind of wacky premise, so it could have wound up being either unbearably silly or enjoyably fun. Fortunately it’s the latter. Make no mistake, it is a little silly, but it’s also sweet and thoroughly likable. Signe Sargent’s dream is to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite her college degree, though,…
I am slowly glomming the older series romances by Jennifer Greene, and so I was delighted to pick up her latest release, Wild in the Moonlight. This book features the kind of characters who might be silly and irritating in the hands of lesser authors; in this book, they are charming and touching. When Cameron…
Mail-order brides have always been a popular theme in historical romance. While some of these books concentrate only on the marriage itself, with the hero and heroine’s motivations for considering such a relationship unimportant to the story, Mary Burton’s latest novel is made more powerful by the fact that her main characters’ reasons for entering…
Code Name: Nanny was slow to start and features an uninteresting couple; but at least it picked up quickly, and for a while was exciting and sexy. But the author didn’t quit while she was ahead, and added chapters to drag out the book after what seemed a logical end. In a reverse of the…
Secret Passage is another thrillingly different entry in Amanda Stevens’s Quantum Men series. The story is so unique that it earns a recommendation based on that alone, but it’s also a somewhat frustrating read that could have been so much more. In 1943, Camille Somersby is a woman on a mission. She works at a…
The main character in White Heat: is a loner, raised by a tough Army grandfather; moved around a lot and has no roots; works as a charter pilot; lives in a sparsly furnished apartment; has had lots of casual flings and has issues with committment. Sounds like a generic romance bad boy, doesn’t it? But…
New author Virginia Kelly makes an impressive debut with her first book for Silhouette Intimate Moments, To the Limit. It’s a sharply written and complex tale, and hopefully just the first of many books from a fresh new talent. Mary Beth Williams came to the South American country of San Mateo to save her brother….
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