As a newbie in regards to Maggie Shayne, I wasn’t sure what to expect. With the explosion of the paranormal market we’re seeing vampires and werewolves and shape shifters galore. Where Ms. Shayne’s latest Wings in the Night book fell in the spectrum of the creepy and undead was mine to discover. Happily, after a…
I opened Cover-Up with a great deal of anticipation. It looked like a nice change of pace from many recent SIM titles. The hero is a novelist, not a soldier, cowboy or lawman. The heroine is a doctor and there are no children or pregnancies involved. The cover made it look mysterious and suspenseful. It’s…
As a romance reader I generally appreciate stories and characters that are a little off-center, a tad different, or present atypical issues or difficulties. Light and fluffy books often bore me – I appreciate authors taking risks, even if they’re not 100% successful. For this reason, I’ve enjoyed Patricia Rice’s work in the past, especially…
I’ll admit it right of the bat; I am a little biased when it comes to Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series. I read my first one a few months ago and in a matter of days emptied my monthly book budget reading the backlist. Call me a fangirl, but Kiss of the Night is not to…
In the introductory letter to Out of Nowhere the author says that she wanted to do a “reverse twist” on one of her earlier 43 Light Street books, Nowhere Man. That’s a favorite of mine and one of the best books in the series, so I had high hopes for this one. While it’s certainly…
As any fan of the Regency period (or at least of Regency novels) knows, an unattached young woman with a fortune is a tempting lady indeed. More than aware of this appeal and firm in the belief that Lady Emily can’t be trusted to find her own husband without being taken in by fortune hunters,…
The Goddesses of Kitchen Avenue was not what I was expecting. The cover shows a bunch of young women having a grand old time eating and laughing. But the book is much more about tears than laughter. The goddesses of Kitchen Avenue are four in number. There is Roberta, the new widow, who can’t seem…
Castaway Hearts is a Super Regency romance. While it’s not as long or complex as a Regency-era historical romance, it’s not like a traditional Regency either. The characters are larger than life, there’s more sensuality than can be found in a trad, and the action/adventure plot is more prominent. Nancy Butler’s traditional Regencies romances are…
An underachieving series comes to an underwhelming end as Beverly Barton brings the Family Secrets series to a close in Check Mate. The first book found Jake Ingram’s brother kidnapped by men who mistook him for Jake, with only the woman assigned to deprogram him there to save him. This time, they finally get their…
If I don’t always have to like a heroine, I do have to respect her intelligence and her honesty. Sadly, the heroine of Stephanie Bond’s latest is sadly lacking in both. Frankly, this woman frolics in TSTL-land for a number of reasons. Within days of starting a new job she desperately needs, she engages in…
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