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…
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…
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…
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…
Have you ever been so close to another person that you no longer know where you end and the other person begins? Some people might find this to be a good thing, but in Karen Brichoux’s wonderful new novel, Separation Anxiety, Wichita Gray isn’t too sure about that. For almost as long as she can…
Billed as the insightful story of a spunky columnist who crusades for acceptance of fatness and obesity in America, Fat Chance puts the spotlight on the insecurities of any woman who has every looked in a mirror and hated what she saw (and used Sara Lee as therapy). The debut novel of nutritionist Deborah Blumenthal…
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…
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 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…
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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