Dorothy Garlock first drew my attention when she moved from 19th century to 20th century American settings, mining a time period that I love, and that has so far been underused by romance authors. I’ve read and enjoyed several of her books, and Mother Road is another to add to the list. Garlock specializes in…
With Her Last Breath is a book I’d never have finished had I not been required to in order to write this review. After the first few chapters, I would have gladly set it aside – okay, hurled it in disgust – and moved on to something else. The beginning of the book is, quite…
I miss Lowell’s historical romances. Though I enjoy her contemporaries well enough, they seem to lack that special something that made her historicals so memorable. But she isn’t writing historicals anymore, which means I’ll take what I can get, and as far as that goes, Running Scared makes for a pretty good read. It’s loosely…
Connie Lane’s return to historical romance (she wrote them under the name Constance Laux) is a pretty surprising book. As I read, I tried to figure out why. Most of the elements are pretty tried and true and there isn’t a whole heck of a lot that happens. Still it caught me off guard a…
Reading The Thin Pink Line was something of a roller coaster ride. At first I found the heroine simply appalling. Then I decided she was appalling, but occasionally funny. Then I decided she was quite funny, and less appalling than I had originally believed. By the time I got to the improbable ending, I wasn’t…
I’ll confess that this is my first Bridgerton novel. I know now I want more of them, I want all of them. As soon as I finish this review, I’m going to the bookstore. What an endearing family!! Sir Phillip Crane never wanted to be a baronet. He was the younger son who was perfectly…
That’s Amore is an Italian road romance that gets off to a rocky start, but eventually settles into a pleasantly light and frothy read. Neither the hero nor heroine makes a good first impression. Anne Marie Jackson seems to be too much the typical wimpy librarian who is so common in romances. A California divorcee,…
I’ll admit I am not the world’s biggest fan of single-woman-in-the-city stories, but I always approach a book with the idea that I am going to enjoy it. In the case of The Big Bad Wolf Tells All, I did enjoy it. Tanzy Harrington is a popular columnist in the Bay area, and the last…
I was looking forward to this book, since Susan King has gotten such good reviews from us in the past. While Taming the Heiress is very well-written and contains interesting elements, I found it difficult to warm up to its heroine. Although it is 1850 and the modern era is in full swing, legend and…
Deanna Miller’s Sky Bounce isn’t easy to categorize. It has strong religious and moral undertones, and I’m almost tempted to call it an inspirational, except that it is firmly set in a highly original fantasy universe. It’s definitely a book for younger readers, and its protagonists are teenagers. Our narrator is an Alula girl named…
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