Can we be honest here? I gave up reading V.C. Andrews novels years ago, with no desire to start up again. All through Connie Flynn’s The Fire Opal, I kept thinking I was in the middle of one. Maybe it was the Louisiana location, maybe it was the swamp or secrets long kept, but through…
Floating was the winner of the MTV fiction contest. From this we can only assume that the other 400 entries out there were worse. The book is the debut of MTV books. MTV, btw, is owned by media conglomerate Viacom, which, in turn, owns Simon & Schuster, which owns Pocket books. This, apparently, is an…
Are You My Daddy? is not complicated at all, and if you are in the mood for (yet another) cowboy and kid story, you’ll find this book appealing. Five-year-old Cody has an absentee dad, a rodeo rider who just can’t find time for his son. That’s why Cody’s momma, pretty Marty Thomas, divorced him. Cody…
Category romances are often cursed with silly titles. This is the case with Marilyn Pappano’s touching story of the return of a prodigal daughter, Older, Wiser…Pregnant. Once you get past the dumb title, you’ll find a decent story with believable and touching characters. Laurel Cameron is the oldest daughter in a large and loving family….
Let me say right away that this is not a romance. I wanted to review this book for two reasons – I love this author, and the heroine is someone who has had an experience not often depicted in romance novels. Also, Patterson has done an amazing amount of research for this book; he talked…
The Amazon link and price information are for the first book in the series, Chat. To paraphrase my fave, Bette Davis— Fasten your seatbelts … it’s going to be a bumpy review. Did you like The English Patient? The Horse Whisperer? The Bridges of Madison County? I’m probably the only person I know who basically…
A lot of books start well, sag in the middle, and get steadily worse. A Dangerous Man is exactly the opposite; it gets off to a slow start, gains momentum, and is pretty good by the end. The last quarter is so enjoyable that you can almost forget the tedium of the first part. Almost,…
Part of the fun in reading a book by Jackie Collins is trying to figure out on whom her characters are based. I read some of her earlier books and found them ho-hum, but when Pocket sent me Power, I decided to give her another shot. There’s plenty of gore and violence in this 126-page…
Leanne Banks writes witty and sexy series romance. With Millionaire Dad, she adds a new nuance and depth in her writing. It is witty and sexy, but it is also deeper and more intense. If you are put off by “baby books,” make an exception for this one and give it a try. It’s a…
Tonight or Never is a problem to review. On one hand it has two of Dara Joy’s best characters, John, Viscount Sexton and Chloe Heart. Ms Joy’s male characters have all been wonderfully larger-than-life – so much so that they have almost overshadowed her female characters. Not so in Tonight or Never. Chloe Heart is…
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