Kathleen Nance’s Spellbound features a great hero, a great setting, and some nifty mythology. But the heroine and plot are both overly complicated, and the balance between light and dark story elements is out of whack, resulting in a somewhat disappointing reading experience. As Minstrel of Zaf, the planet inhabited by (it seems) many, many…
The Last of the Honky Tonk Angels is a true sequel to The Second Coming of Lucy Hatch in that the action of the story picks up right where the first one left off in Mooney, Texas. Since I very much enjoyed Lucy Hatch I was eagerly anticipating the sequel. I’m pleased to say that…
When I was in high school, I poured over the fiction section at my local B. Dalton. I’d look at it so often, I knew where every book went and when something new had been added. Pretty much everything I read came from that part of the store, and I never really wandered into the…
I’ve read many Blazes and at this point most of the blurbs sound identical. The premise of By the Book, though, sounded like so much fun that I couldn’t resist picking it up. Previously, I’d read one Nancy Warren Blaze titled Live A Little! and remember it made me laugh, but also drove me a…
Three years ago, Grace Beaumont lost her husband, father, and unborn child in a devastating car accident. In the years since, she’s dedicated herself to her family’s telecommunications business while still mourning the life she once had. Then she receives a letter that indicates the hit-and-run accident was actually a deliberate hit to take out…
I thought I had a real winner when I began One Touch Of Magic. The heroine is an intelligent woman, an antiquarian. Good! The hero is a former soldier, now a marquess with a social conscience. Good again! The book has a nice cast of secondary characters who actually play a part in the story…
Dancing with A Rogue was a difficult book for me to read and, frankly, this is a difficult review to write. Normally when a book doesn’t quite work for me, I can pinpoint exactly what caused that reaction. But, surprisingly, though this story failed me to engage to the point that picking it up was…
Midnight Cravings starts with a pretty good premise and might have turned out to be a more enjoyable read had author Elizabeth Harbison taken a little more time to invest it with some substance, proofread for annoying inconsistencies, and avoid so many clichéd characters and situations. A chili cook-off weekend set in the small town…
Regan Forest is an author I read quite a bit of when I started reading romance. I enjoyed her atmospheric settings, ranging from Wales to France to Arizona ghost towns, her unusual characters, and often paranormal-influenced plots. In the mood for that kind of read, I ordered several books on her backlist I hadn’t yet…
Magnolia Moon has been a hard book to review, so hard I’ve been wrestling with the review for more than a month after finishing the book. I enjoyed reading it, and when I had to set it down at the end of a night, I spent much of the next day looking forward to getting…
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