If there was ever a book with a lead-in that screamed take me home, it would be Undercover Angel. The heroine holding the hero at gunpoint in a contemporary? Sounds like a great way to start. Whoever wrote that blurb, great job! I would have found it difficult to sell this book so well. Trish…
Petals on the River harkens back to an earlier time in romance. It’s long, involved, bloody, and purple. Author Woodiwiss has an eye for detail and a flare for capturing human emotion, but she writes like she did 20 years ago. Unfortunately, most of us have since moved on. This would have been a much…
After having read and thoroughly enjoyed The MacGregor Brides last summer, I glommed the first five books of the series with help from author Nora Roberts and her publisher. For those of you who recall, I arranged for Silhouette to send me copies of all the MacGregor books so that I could interview her about…
Those of you who complain that your medieval romances are not real enough, this book is for you. Terri Brisbin’s first novel is a time travel that takes the reader to medieval Scotland. As part of a tour group on a vacation to Scotland, Maggie Hobbs ends up in the village of Dunnedin where the…
Catherine Mulveny’s first book, Upon a Midnight Clear was one of my favorites of 1997. Her second book, Man Shy did not make much of an impression on me. Her third, Aquamarine, while not as good as her first, was an enjoyable book with a touch of the paranormal. If only it had been longer,…
Aquamarine is the story of a woman named Kirsten who helps her fiancé find her killer through the power of a crystal seven years after her disappearance. Strange, you might say? Wait – there’s more. Shea McKenzie, a woman fitting Kirsten’s description, shows up in Liberty, Idaho seven years later and teams up Kirsten’s fiancé,…
At heart, Lost Acres Bride is not a bad book. The characters are engaging, and the story is fairly original. However, there are distracting inconsistencies and annoyances that appear throughout, keeping the reader from really enjoying the story. Serena Hull, half white and half Modoc Indian, arrives in Oregon to claim Lost Acres Ranch. Years…
Best Laid Schemes has everything you’d expect in a Regency. There are interesting characters, witty dialogue, and a fun house-party setting. It also has some things you wouldn’t necessarily expect, like a mischievous (and incontinent) monkey. It’s not a book that will change the world, but it’s a good, light read. Tarquin Rome, the Earl…
One Bright Star contains many elements of a romance. It is a contemporary, an adventure, a paranormal, as well as science fiction, and while the contemporary/adventure elements shine, the science fiction fizzles. Imaginative story elements are combined here to intrigue the reader, but it is done at the expense of fully developing the human element,…
Life is interesting, is it not? Many people make the same mistakes in relationships over and over again, never realizing they are sabotaging themselves until something happens to make them aware of what they are doing. Annie’s Wild Ride is a book that has this sort of realism. It is about two people who are…
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