Reading Burning the Map is much like watching a slideshow of someone else’s vacation. You get a chance to see the same things they did in vivid color, but you also have to listen to their boring stories of events that were probably interesting to experience, yet are pretty dull to hear about. Casey Evers…
Lucy Connors’ best friend Claire gives Lucy one heck of a birthday present: a week at Fantasy Ranch. Lucy finds out about her present when she arrives home to find a shirtless cowboy handcuffed to her bed. Lucy, who had just been bemoaning her lack of experiencing wild and passionate sex, doesn’t know what to…
The Cobra and the Lily is likely not a book with a huge built-in audience, but for specialized readers will love it. Those who like unique settings will be interested, since the book takes place in ancient Egypt. Those who like inspirationals or novelizations of familiar stories should take a peek because this book tells…
Okay, I have to say it: I feel like Scrooge. I always look forward to reading the Christmas books that come out every year (although there seem to be fewer and fewer), and The Christmas Basket was my first one of the season. Well, this story is the equivalent of a lump of coal in…
Hot Water, California is clearly a happening place. And though Then Comes Marriage was my first visit to the former Gold Rush town, it most assuredly won’t be my last. This book just works on a whole lot of levels. Two great lead characters – both amusingly eccentric and, at the same time, deeply traumatized…
Fallen Host, sequel to last year’s well-reviewed Archangel Protocol, is a book I should have liked. It has an interesting religious angle, it’s well written, and its storyline is fresh and quite unique. And yet, I did not like it. I never connected with any of the characters and actively detested two of them. The…
Dee Davis’ Midnight Rain has the right elements for a good romantic suspense novel. Unfortunately, it takes a too long for the story to get going for the book to be truly effective. Computer magnate Jonathan Brighton is in Mexico for a much-needed vacation when he is ambushed and shot in the head. Six months…
Anybody else like me? Every now and then it’s time for me to indulge in what I call “a book, a Coke, and a soak” – a good long session in the tub with a bottle of soda at my side and a book in my hands. And some books are perfect for this: they…
Patricia Veryan is lauded as one of the grande dames of Regency writers, and has long been in my TBR pile. It seems, however, that with the Georgian romance The Riddle Of The Deplorable Dandy, this experienced writer has fallen prey to the most simple of writer edicts: show, don’t tell. Not to mention that…
Although most authors are advised to write what you know, it might be more appropriate to suggest they write what they feel. Bebe Moore Campbell’s writing is proof that an African-American woman can write believably from any perspective. Her first book, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine read like a lighter Toni Morrison, and her next…
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