This Time Love was originally published as the 1986 series romance Sequel. It has been “extensively rewritten” by the author and is now being released in hardcover. I’ve never read Sequel and have no idea what changes have been made to the original novel (except the hero’s use of the f-word, which is surely new)….
Lord Ruin by Carolyn Jewel is a far-from-perfect book, but it is so entertaining, satisfying, and sensuous that I simply must recommend it anyway. The Duke of Cynnsyr, Ruan No-last-name (Or perhaps Ruan is his last name? I’ll get to that in a minute), is an unrepentant, spoiled, egotistical rake. Along with his best friend…
If I’m reading a book that says “Romance” on the spine and has a clinch on the cover, but halfway through I have to skip ahead to the end just to make sure everything turns out all right, then I figure I’m reading a pretty darn good book. While Sara Bennett’s sophomore effort, The Rose…
A Place Called Rainwater is the second in the Jones family series that began with The Edge of Town and tells the story of Jill, youngest of the Jones clan from Fertile, Missouri. Jill has come to Rainwater to help her widowed aunt Justine, whose “creeping paralysis” is gradually eroding her ability to manage the…
This is a short review for a short book. Philly Gresham is not a happy girl. Her parents are on vacation and they’ve rented out the house, so she’s been forced to move to London and try out a new job. Not what the girl with no ambition wants. What’s worse is that she’ll be…
If ever there’s a book that shouldn’t be judged by its cover, Whatever It Takes is it. It’s got the typical cover with the couple posed outdoors, hero fully clothed and heroine half naked. It’s a cover that says “hot sex,” but the book is quite prim. Since the hero has a leather vest and…
AARList Moderator Anne Marble has what she calls a “dog-ear” test: the more a reviewer folds over the pages of a book as she’s reading, the more disappointing the book is likely to turn out. The top edge of my copy of The Duchess Diaries is about a third thicker than the bottom edge, because…
This was the first book by former AAR Reviewer Kathryn Smith that I’ve read, but it definitely will not be last. When I started the book I thought it was well done, but nothing spectacular or particularly new. Then I got a little further in and found myself charmed by truly likable characters which nowadays…
Inner-city Chicago high school art teacher Faye Harper needs a quiet summer by the lake. After a harrowing incident in which the father of one of her students broke her wrist by pushing her down a flight of stairs, the peaceful serenity of her aunt’s lakeside cottage in Eden, Illinois is just the ticket. What…
I have a sneaking fondness for nurse/patient stories. When I put the new series romances out at the bookstore, this one looked interesting, so I took it home. My book radar was working at peak performance; Midnight, Moonlight & Miracles turned out to be a good one. Simon Reynolds comes into the hospital after a…
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