The Kissing Blades moved along so quickly that it ended before I was ready for it to be over. Another 25 pages for more character development and Jessica Hall’s latest would’ve landed on my keeper shelf. As enjoyable as it was, though, the main characters get the short end of the stick in a story…
A person can’t help but be intrigued by a book which opens with the line, “I didn’t kill Harvey Kredd; somebody beat me to it.” From there we learn how Claire Westbrook’s distinctly unpleasant boss met his end. Actually, the reader also learns quite a bit about Claire as she proceeds to give a brief…
The prologue for Single White Vampire, with the hero’s all-too succinct responses to letters from the heroine, made me laugh, and I settled in for a funny read. The rest of the book did have its moments, but too many in-jokes and a heroine who’s both dull and annoying put a damper on the fun….
I’ve been waiting for a good fusion of romance and urban fantasy, and Melanie Jackson’s Traveler provides just that. It’s a love story set in an inner-city Detroit that has become infested with dark magic. The world that Jackson created resembles our own, except that it was once populated by all manner of magical beings….
A cast of secondary characters straight out of a bad sitcom and a series of painful plot contrivances that are . . . well, painfully contrived irrevocably mar what could otherwise have been an entertaining romance. Think I’m exaggerating about those secondary characters? Try this: An Italian grandmother who thinks “everything in life can be…
It’s easier to pull off a successful suspense story in a short form than it is to tell a believable romance. So it should come as no surprise that the three tales in the On the Edge anthology work better as suspense than as love stories.
One of my fellow reviewers recently wrote in a review of J.D. Robb’s Imitation in Death that the secret to a good continuing series is a strong main character surrounded by an equally strong supporting cast. This certainly holds true in A Killing Gift, the latest installment in Leslie Glass’s police procedural/mystery series featuring Detective…
A thirty-something widow goes in search of herself and finds the love she’s always deserved in Nancy Herkness’ debut novel. A Bridge to Love is a fast-paced, sexy, and sometimes humorous read in which the hero and heroine both learn that mutual attraction cannot be ignored. A widow with two adolescent children, Kate Chilton had…
The Player is the third in the Family Secrets series and while there’s much good about it, it suffers from an almost fatal flaw. The writing is strong. It has a really distinctive sense of place that adds a lot to the story. There are a number of terrific scenes and it nicely advances the…
What a waste. As its title indicates, Pyramid of Lies takes place in Cairo, Egypt. Not that you’d know it from the book. This story could have taken place anywhere. World-renowned cryptologist Gretchen Wagner came to Egypt to decipher a set of ancient tablets that might be the key to an unknown language. But, being…
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