Wicked Charms is well-titled: the first word that springs to mind to describe it is charming. It is the story of a man and a woman, both of whom are willing to marry without love in order to gain a castle. Aiden Brinlaw is one of the most lovable rogues I’ve had the pleasure to…
Unraveled by C.J. Barry takes place on far planets and in deep space. Though it has some engaging moments, a lack of communication and some plot holes are troublesome, and its characters represent extremely familiar and well-worn stereotypes. The heroine, for instance, is a Virginal Bluestocking. Tru Van Dyne is a member an elite group…
Mimi Riser’s first book in 25 years, I Do, suffers from a variety of serious problems. Too much plot, too many voices, and a mish-mosh of sub-genres result in this mess of a novel, which features a marriage of convenience, switching places, a half-breed stuck between two worlds, a heroine who runs at every turn,…
Bunny slaying, bloodletting, and down and dirty sex? What more does a girl need? Though Hunting Midnight wasn’t a memorable romance, it will certainly stick with me for other reasons! Ulric is pack leader of the upyr, a race of unearthly, beautiful vampires who possess magical powers and can shape change into the form of…
Girl’s Guide to Hunting & Kissing was a purchase born of desperation. I was on break and had an hour to kill, and I’d lost the book I was reading earlier in the day (the book and I were happily reunited later, but that’s a story for another day). I wanted a quick read, so…
This is a difficult book to grade because while After the Fire definitely showcases everything consistently good about Kathryn Shay’s work, it also highlights the things that repeatedly make her a frustrating read for me. An excellent writer with strong command of plot, character development, and a skill for portraying real, multidimensional relationships, Shay often…
The Redwyck Charm features Marcus Redwyck, Earl of Amberley, a charming beta hero. Marcus is good, kind, decent, hardworking, and that rare creature, a male virgin. Beta heroes are sometimes dull, but Marcus was too intense to be dull and I thought he was the best thing in the book. If only the heroine, Julianna,…
The Silver Lion was a book that was both hard to read and hard to grade. It took me nearly ten days to get through it (a very long time for me), mostly because I found it very easy to put down. On the other hand, by the time I neared the end of the…
Somewhere in this book there was a story that I wanted to read. A young girl publicly and painfully jilted in her first season by a cad who targeted her and planned the stunt to get into an elite club. The cad’s brother, an honest and decent man, meets this girl six years later and…
I’m starting to develop a theory about writers who excel at books on the lighter side: Because those books are funny, fast-paced, and, therefore, easy to read, people assume that they’re just as easy to write. My guess is that the exact opposite must sometimes be true. For example, in The Lady in Question, Victoria…
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