With a fang-in-neck title like Love Bites, it’s pretty clear that this vampire story is supposed to keep company with some of the more light-hearted vampire books reviewed elsewhere on this site. Unfortunately, the humor is hard to discern, the vampire aesthetic weakened for the sake of convenience, and the hero and heroine hard to…
Seeing a Regency Romance with the title The Madcap Marriage, one might logically expect a light and funny farce like those Barbara Metzger writes so well. But if a reader buys Lane’s latest thinking to settle down and laugh, she’ll be very disappointed. This is a dark and often violent book with characters who are…
I don’t know – I think it must be me, but most of the time, I simply don’t connect with the Silhouette Romance line. I had read Nichol Burnham’s SR series, Going To the Castle, The Prince’s Tutor and The Knight’s Kiss and enjoyed them, so I had high hopes for One Bachelor To Go….
Though I’m not usually a huge reader of Chick Lit, I did enjoy Donna Kauffman’s last book, The Big Bad Wolf Tells All. I was thrilled when I learned that her newest was set in Washington D.C., familiar stomping grounds for me. The Cinderella Rules tells the story of a lady from rural Montana who…
This book gets the romance/suspense balance backward. Don’t pick it up looking for a love story that will move you to your soul. Rather, pick it up for an interesting whodunit that throws a little romance into the mix. Sheik Zahad Adnan arrives in the small California town of Mountain View to investigate the murder…
Although I’ve enjoyed the characters Karyn Monk created for this series, the execution of their stories falls a little flat. I looked forward to this story, as the heroine, Charlotte, is one of the most interesting of the recurring characters. But one of my least favorite plot devices (a blackmail plot) ruined what could have…
An intelligent pair of lovers and sizzling sexual tension make Guilty Pleasures a most enjoyable romance. It breaks no new ground, but it tells a familiar story in a very engaging way. Anthony Courtland, the Duke of Tremore, is fascinated with antiquities. He is excavating a Roman villa on one of his properties and plans…
An Affair Most Wicked is an average read, written in a style reminiscent of many other recent Avon releases. If you’ve been enjoying the offerings of Jeffries, Hawkins, and company, you might enjoy this; it’s kind of in that vein. Clara Wilson has come to London to catch a titled husband, just as her sister…
Back In The Bedroom is a textbook example of how likable characters can make a book enjoyable. There’s nothing new or original about this book – outgoing girl meets uptight guy and sparks fly, and there you have the story – but the characters are so charming! I smiled all the way through it. Tessa…
Phoebe Conn’s Wild Desire is a readable western romance with some nice romantic moments and a lovely heroine. However, several of the other characters – including, unfortunately, the hero – are apparently inhabitants of some alternate dimension. In this dimension, the laws of logic are mystifyingly different, and people do things for reasons that don’t…
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