Sherry Lewis tries to do a difficult thing in Only Time Will Tell. She starts out with two deeply flawed characters, and tries to show how their love strengthens them and makes them both better people. The problem is that they are both initially so unlikable that it’s really hard to care whether or not…
The Winter Mantle is by turns fascinating, brutal, and romantic. The writing is consistently top-notch, the historical details are accurate and thorough, and the characters are flawed in an intriguing way. It also reminded me completely of why I started reading much more romance (and much less historical fiction) nearly ten years ago. As much…
Marrying Mike… Again is a title I came across while editing the Troubled Marriages Special Title List. Since I’m a sucker and a half for a good marriage-in-trouble story, when I found a copy in our library book sale, I snapped it right up. I don’t know what I was expecting, but the book was…
Janet Chapman has definitely got a good thing going with her Highlander trilogy and, if this second installment isn’t quite as compelling as the first entry, anyone who enjoyed the dynamic Greylen MacKeage and Charming the Highlander won’t want to miss this one. Morgan MacKeage is one of several 12th century warriors transplanted in error…
Is it fair to Mary Balogh that she’s just so ridiculously good? At her best she is able to convey her characters’ overwhelming anguish of despair coupled with the deep determination of love when they love but believe their love is not returned. At her less than best, you still feel the anguish and love,…
Well, there’s good news, great news, and unfortunatly some bad news to accompany Laurell K Hamilton’s latest release. The good news is that there’s a plot and it’s better than Narcissus in Chains. The great news is that there’s barely any Micah at all, which had me jumping for joy. But there’s some bad news…
Shore Lights is a lovely book about family, the relationships between parents and children, and how some feelings go unsaid when you just can’t find the words to express them. Hopefully I can do a little better than the characters in that regard in this review. Maddy Bainbridge and her mother Rose never got along….
Time-travel romances often take their characters into the past or bring them to the present, but the future seldom seems to be the destination of choice. While most futuristics seem to involve aliens, space travel and other worlds, I’ve always had a soft spot for SF tales of the future right here on planet earth,…
The Blessing Stone makes those sprawling intergenerational sagas and inscrutable epics seem like rank amateurs with the sheer scope of its coverage spanning over 100,000 years. Barbara Wood is an engaging writer, but her themes, played out in the history of a precious stone, are not. Her research is superb, some of her stories are…
A sweet story with an unusual setting that’s mostly a pleasure to read, Adam’s Promise unfortunately hits a groan-inducing plot development that nearly capsizes it. Madeline Oxley is stunned when her father informs her that Adam Coates sent him a letter asking for her hand in marriage. When she was a girl, she had a…
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