A feisty P.I. and an uptight investment banker take to the road in License to Thrill, a lightweight, high energy romp that zips along with equal parts humor and heart. It’s not the type of story that takes itself too seriously. If I tell you the heroine’s name is Charlee Champagne, her mother’s name is…
I can’t help sighing as I write this review: how I wish I had a terrific new Regency to recommend. Alas, this is yet another offering that will make you want to reach for one of your older comfort reads. The Spinster and the Wastrel is unfortunately a waste. Annette Courtney is astonished when she…
I am not a fan of Martha Stewart, so when I saw that The Thing About Men was about a lifestyle diva, I hoped for a good plot since I knew I would not like the character. Silly me – the characters turned out to be the best thing about the book. Pop culture icon…
Like many readers, I very much enjoyed Almost A Gentleman, Pam Rosenthal’s debut romance novel. If it wasn’t quite a DIK for me, it was both romantic and erotic and definitely left me looking forward to the author’s future books. Unhappily, the The Bookseller’s Daughter is such a dramatic decline from that promising first effort…
Military heroes are a staple in romance novels, much like cowboys, secret babies and virgin heroines. And like those time honored traditions of romance, most military heroes tend to be as fierce and commanding on the battlefield as they are in the bedroom. Anything less would be declared unmanly, unheroic and certainly unsympathetic, especially in…
I came across Margot Early’s name in an online recommendation of her book The Keeper, a very unique category romance dealing with mental illness. As soon as I had finished that one, I went hunting for its sequel, Nick’s Kind of Woman. I wasn’t expecting that much, since the plot seemed to be much more…
While the rakish earl and the proper-but-not-boring lady are not new characters of the Regency, Nicola Cornick draws them well in this delightful story. The characters are certainly familiar, but they and their story are far from being dull or ordinary. Amy Bainbridge, the daughter of a gambler, is “on the shelf” and living in…
Reading Obsession I remembered why I gave up watching soap operas; they’re too frustrating. Speaking of frustration, I don’t know how anyone who read its prequel, Devotion, with its mother of all cliff hanger endings, handled it without giving up on Sutcliffe altogether. Unfortunately I’m not sure this is the book you all were waiting…
The Black Violin was originally published in French three years ago. For reasons that completely escape me, someone decided it would be a great idea to translate it into English and sell it here as a little tiny hardcover book for $16.00. I guess it’s possible that in the original French this is a lyrical…
Elaine Coffman’s first book in the Graham Clan series, The Highlander, is a very adventurous read, and I can’t wait to meet the rest of the family. Sophie d’Alembert is French royalty on the run. The granddaughter of the Louis XIV, she’s been betrothed to the Duke of Rockingham, a loathesome creature. And so she…
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