Well, what do I have here? A book that hinges on a real live Ancient Egyptian Curse. Normally, I would be rolling my eyes and making derisive noises, but in Who Will Take This Man, the silly plot actually works. Wonderful characters and a good dose of humor made this a very engaging read. Philip…
Catherine Mann has won a lot of buzz over the past year for her Wingman Warriors series about Air Force men and women, including a RITA win. With Suzanne Brockmann focusing on her single titles, Mann seems to have stepped in to fill the void for military category romances. I’ve only read one other book…
Debates continually rage on our message boards about what makes a book great: Is it the plot, the characters, the unexpected twists? For a lot of us, it is the voice. Marianne Stillings wrote a little bit about this in her latest journal, and it seems to be what editors are searching for, as well….
Romance has the Big Misunderstanding. Chick Lit has the Big Lie in which an entire plot is wrapped around the heroine’s failure to be honest. If the heroine would simply tell her boyfriend/friends/fiance the truth, we wouldn’t have a book. Or perhaps we could call it the Big Indecision: The heroine’s life becomes a tangled…
I am not a very big mystery reader, mostly because the journey is more important to me than the end result. But Still Life with Murder, the first of a new historical mystery series by romance author Patricia Ryan, managed to engage me as a mystery and as a character study. The mystery unfolds as…
Return Engagement is a terrific light contemporary romance, a nice big read for anyone who’s been missing this type of book. There’s no suspense plot and no misery and angst, just 400 plus pages packed with story and teeming with characters. There’s so much happening that not even a few standard issue plot elements, namely…
I enjoyed Christine Feehan’s first story about the magical Drake sisters in the Lover Beware anthology earlier this year and looked forward to seeing more of them. I can’t say the same after reading her second story about them in The Twilight Before Christmas. It has a beautiful, atmospheric cover and opens with a nicely…
Losing It promised to be just the kind of story I love: a transformation story. However, a main character who started out so odd killed the potential and the execution for me. Diana Christopher is miserable. In the prologue to the story, we find out that 32-year old Diana just crashed her car through a…
The year is 1120, and Sabin FitzSimon is in trouble again. The bastard son of a noble English family, Sabin is a wild and reckless young man whose latest escapade has resulted in the death of an innocent. Since his bad reputation is about to affect the fortunes of his legitimate half-siblings, his family hastily…
Night Falls Like Silk is the sequel to Kathleen Eagle’s The Night Remembers. I haven’t read the earlier book, and if this one is any indication, I don’t really want to – even though I’ve enjoyed the author in the past. Night Falls Like Silk is – well, it’s not very clear. It’s misty. It’s…
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