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  • Kissing Frogs

    I’m not a stickler for absolute reality in my romances. Heaven knows, I’ve loved more than one historical romance with a backdrop so flimsy you could practically see it wobbling whenever someone breathed heavily. But Laura Marie Altom’s Kissing Frogs doesn’t manage to stay consistent even with itself, which is an entirely different matter. And,…

  • Fair Play

    Deirdre Martin admirably dodges the sophomore slump in her second romance, Fair Play. A terrific read, it is, by turns, fast, compelling, frustrating, devastating, annoying, thrilling, but never less than engrossing. I hung on every page and finished it in one sitting. In Theresa Falconetti’s book, Michael Dante has three strikes against him. He’s Italian,…

  • The Souvenir Countess

    The Souvenir Countess is half a great book. In this case, the great half is the first half. It’s been awhile since I was excited by a debut author, so I got really excited during the first half of this book, only to be quite disappointed as it abruptly dwindled into mediocrity. The book begins…

  • Mr. Valentine

    Mr. Valentine tells the story of Jack Killigan, a glasses-wearing, junk-food ingesting blue collar guy who works in the shipping department of a paper manufacturer. At night, however, he follows his writing muse and enters his romance novel in an unpublished author contest. His friend, Krysta Luekenhoff, is white collar management, trying desperately to get…

  • Thrill Me

    Thrill Me features two very memorable characters with flaws and charm galore. Sophie Winchester lives in a small town – a very small town – where she works for the local pastor. One of the newest generation of a family who has lived in the town forever, all the local residents think of Sophie as…

  • White Shadows by Susan Edwards

    A man set on nothing less than complete revenge and women caught in the middle take center stage in the ninth title of Susan Edwards’ White series of Indian romances. Rather than the usual mix of a full-Caucasian character falling in love with a full or “half-breed” Indian, Edwards instead offers up the romance bewteen…

  • No Ordinary Groom

    I wasn’t sure what to expect from No Ordinary Groom since my past experience with Ms. Callen’s work was mixed. Even after finishing the novel, I’m still not sure what to think, because while there are some extremely enjoyable elements to this book, they are, unfortunately, packaged in a fluffy plot crammed with Big Misunderstandings…

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