Behind the Red Doors is the latest themed anthology from Harlequin. It contains three interlinked novellas by Vicki Lewis Thompson, Stephanie Bond, and Leslie Kelly. The Red Doors of the title is a store opened by two best friends; Jamie Ruskin and Faith Sherman. Jamie and Faith have come up with the idea of three…
As a general rule, I’ve got nothing against connected books. In the hands of a skilled author, it’s often fun to follow a family or group of friends as they all find their path to love. But in the case of Liz Carlyle’s latest book, the whole connected craze has finally gone too far. Carlyle…
The Man I Should Have Married is not a classic romance, but is instead a chick-lit type journey of self-discovery told in the first-person. Even though it has a love story at its backbone, the book is really about one woman¹s reclamation of the woman she used to be, while finding the strength to move…
Let me start this review by saying that Justine Davis is one of my favorite authors. I absolutely love her Trinity Street West mini-series (and wish she would revisit it) and her books Out of the Dark and The Morning Side of Dawn are probably two of the best series romances novels I’ve ever read….
I’d almost forgotten how much fun it is to read a good romantic suspense book. J.D. Robb’s In Death books are among my favorites, but I haven’t read much other romantic suspense lately. Picture Me Dead made me realize what I’ve been missing. The story moved along at a fast pace, and while perhaps the…
It’s hard to know what to say about a book like this one. Inane title aside, it’s not particularly a bad book. Nor is it particularly a good book. The characters were sympathetic enough, for the most part, and the writing smooth. If the characters lacked dimension, and the plot lacked a certain focus, how…
Fashionistas has a great cover: slick and stylish, featuring a cartoon of a trendily-dressed woman silhouetted against a cityscape. It perfectly captures the book’s polished, light-hearted fashion-consciousness. The novel is narrated by Vig Morgan (and if the handsome face of Viggo Mortensen just flashed before your mind’s eye, banish it – Vig is female). She…
I think that perhaps I enjoy contemporary romantic Women’s Fiction more than I like Contemporary Romance. Women’s Fiction allows for a bit more realism. The characters don’t have to be perfect: they are allowed real dysfunctions and they can have bad hair days or even no hair at all. The emotions seem more real in…
I admit I was put off by the very first page of this story when the heroine worries that the policeman waiting to see her might be wanting to question her on her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend’s cocaine habit. Eeew. And things weren’t picking up when said heroine seemed like she stepped right out of a chick-lit novel…
Miss Abigail Todd journeys from Boston to England to claim an inheritance from a mysterious relative, and she is surprised to find herself falling in love with the man society has termed The Indifferent Earl. This is Blair Bancroft’s first Signet Regency, and while it has its flaws, overall it is entertaining and worth a…
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