Since I have enjoyed Robyn Carr in the past, I have much of her backlist in the TBR pile. Down by the River is the first book I’ve read in her Grace Valley series, and though it was pleasant, I didn’t feel like I really got to know any of the characters very intimately. I…
Borrowed Dreams has a lot, a lot, going for it, but ultimately its story gets bogged down in its own intricacies, its flawless heroine, and its wildly divergent points of view. It shows remarkably good effort, but the result is not as richly satisfying as it could have been. Millicent Wentworth is a widow whose…
Lover Beware is a collection of four romantic suspense novellas, three with paranormal overtones. One of the stories is a stinker, but the other three are well worth the read.
The four stories in this book are set in a variety of places and times, and while at least two of them meet with a degree of success, the remainder suffer from an overriding earnestness that just wound up seeming silly.
I have never given a book an F before. Admittedly, I haven’t been reviewing too long, but I’ve never read a book for review in which I couldn’t find at least something to like, some small flicker of light amidst the gloom of awkward writing and poorly depicted characters. But alas, the minute I finished…
Never Walk Alone is nothing so much as it is quite a let down. After all, this is the sequel to Taming the Night, a very enjoyable read. Unfortunately, the characters in this book seem all to have come from Central Casting, and the serious conflicts Riggs raised all seemed to melt away for no…
Denene Miller and her husband Nick Chiles are known for their What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know series of non-fiction relationship books. They make their fiction debut with Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, which tells the story of Randy Murphy and Mikki Chance-Murphy in chapters with alternate points of view between husband and wife. Married…
Sometimes I’m tempted to come up with a Letterman-type top ten list when I’m reading a book for review. Something like “You know it’s a bad sign when…” I’m sure you could fill in the blank with any number of romance clichés. Maybe because I had hoped for something else, Mary Reed McCall’s latest surprised…
Though well liked, rumors have swirled around Father Brendan Quinlan for months, dark whispers about his past and inappropriate relationships with parishioners. The reports are enough for the Church to send someone to St. Simeon’s Parish to investigate him. Brendan knows there are some members of the church hierarchy who would like nothing more than…
Final Exit is the kind of book that normally wouldn’t warrant a recommendation. It’s a standard-issue serial killer tale that deals in all the typical scenes and obvious clichés. The difference is that Laurie Breton’s writing is so strong that it makes an ordinary story anything but. A serial rape/killer is targeting young women in…
End of content
End of content