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  • Perfectly Sexy

    What a great little book! Emily McKay’s Perfectly Sexy is a charmer. A sweet story with warm, likable characters, it put a smile on my face and kept it there just about the whole way through. Mattie Wilcox always had a crush on her best friend’s brother. Brad Sumners was the golden boy of their…

  • Miranda Blue Calling

    A friend of mine recommended Miranda Blue Calling to me, comparing it to Tim Farrington’s The Monk Downstairs. Since I enjoyed that book so much I was eager to try Michelle Curry Wright. Her writing voice isn’t at all the same as Farrington’s, and this book doesn’t contain any religious themes, but that same quiet…

  • A Lady of Distinction

    I had high hopes for this book after an engaging beginning. But a loss of momentum in the middle and an interesting yet extremely rushed ending render Deborah Simmons’ A Lady of Distinction my most disappointing read thus far for 2004. Lady Juliet Cavendish is an Egyptian scholar even though she is a woman. Her…

  • Love, Louisa

    If you can read a book in a day, barely putting it down for a break, then it must be pretty good. Love, Lousia is a book that started out with a witty bang, yet by the middle I found myself putting the book down, becoming a bit bored with the dragging plot. And the…

  • Seraphim

    I was thrilled when Harlequin announced its initial Luna Books line-up. As described, these were going to be books with tough women finding magic, adventure, and love. So far I’ve read three of the offerings and not one has hit it out of the ballpark, much to my chagrin. Case in point: Seraphim, a book…

  • Deceiving Miss Dearborn

    I suppose I ought to get all critical and point out that Deceiving Miss Dearborn is chock full of coincidences that defy all the laws of probability and logic. I suppose I ought to pout because there is a big separation in the latter part of the book. And I guess I should be displeased…

  • Girl on the Run

    Girl on the Run takes place in a lighthearted imaginary medieval realm. Kaia Kurinon is a princess, first cousin to the king, and has been raised and educated in a strictly orthodox manner. That means, among other things, that she was never taught to read. She is, however, an extremely high-spirited young woman, and due…

  • Saving Lord Verwood

    If I had to choose one word to describe Saving Lord Verwood, that word would be “odd.” It’s odd at the beginning, blissfully normal in the middle, and terribly, terribly odd at the end. Because I enjoyed parts of it, I found it more difficult to assign a grade than to summarize the book in…

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