Lindsay McKenna is one of the authors who piqued my interest in series romance romance. Her Love and Glory series years ago made me realize how exciting, passionate and compelling series romance novels could be. I have enjoyed many hours of reading thanks to this author and her latest release is wonderful. Hunter’s Pride is…
There are times when good writing can lift the reader above plot weaknesses and discrepancies and there are times when the writing just isn’t enough. Candace Camp’s Secrets of The Heart has good writing throughout, and most of the time it is enough to ignore the other problems. Sometimes, however, it just doesn’t stand up…
I knew this book was in trouble when I found myself rooting for the man-eating tiger to finish off the hero and heroine during their hunt for the beast. White Tiger’s Fancy does win points for trying something different than the usual historical romance: the setting is mostly in India, and the descriptions are vibrant…
This book would have been so much better if the concepts of logic or credibility had been introduced into it. It’s a shame, because this probably could have been a decent read – or at the very least a pleasant diversion – with the addition of those two qualities. Without it, The Warrior Bride is…
I’ve read more than my share of badly written, mundane historical romances featuring a handsome rake and a feisty, foot-stomping heroine. Most of the time, I sigh, toss the book and forget about it. St. Raven has a handsome rake for a hero and a heroine who is an adventuress at heart. But unlike wallpaper…
Falling Star concerns the least sympathetic creatures on the planet. No, not mosquitoes . . . an even lower life form . . . TV reporters. More precisely, those stars of the media better known as news anchors The author, a former anchorwoman herself, offers nothing new under the sun in this non-romance potboiler. While…
Francesca’s Party is straight women’s fiction, not, as I’m more used to reading, romantic women’s fiction. This was not a terrible book, but it reminded me of why I don’t read a lot of straight women’s fiction. Francesca Kirwin has a nice, calm, easy life as the wife of an international banker. She has two…
It’s hard to call an author to task for being too ambitious, but in this case I’ve simply got to do it. In this second entry in her South Beach Singles series, author Jill Shalvis has undertaken the tremendous task of featuring both a hero and heroine with some pretty darn serious issues – the…
There are one and three-quarters stories in this book. Hey, buy one, get one free, right? Well, not quite. The problem is that at points the three-quarters of a story threatens to overtake the main story, which has its own rough spots to begin with. Maxine Bleckner runs a very different sort of home-based business:…
In Leslie Carroll’s Reality Check, advertising copywriter Liz Pemberley and her two best friends sign up for a new reality show called Bad Date. On the show, contestants share stories of their worst dating experiences and the person with the most horrendous stories will be voted the million-dollar winner at the end of the season….
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