Dangerous to Love is a book that gets off to a great start. The premise is interesting, and the characters seem exciting and different. But halfway through the book the lead characters begin to behave stereotypically. Another promising book becomes a disappointment. The hero is Ivan Thornton, Earl of Westcott. The bastard son of the…
Fire Song is a medieval story, featuring a bride switched at the altar, a wonderfully likeable and competent heroine, and a tortured hero who has to learn to love and trust. While I liked the story and loved the characters, the book is flawed by an ending I thought too rushed and melodramatic. King John…
You take a partially trained witch who was raised in part by Puritans, add a jaded billionaire, and bring them together. My first thought was (with minimal eye-rolling), only in a romance. After a few pages, I became a believer. In Breath of Magic, Teresa Medeiros demonstrated to me why so many fans believe she…
In some ways, I’m sorry that I’ve been on a category romance roll this past week and in other ways, I’m not. Sometimes, I just want to sit down and read, read, read several books in one week, and reading categories allows me to do that. Ryder’s Wife is the first book in The Justice…
Marrying Mattie is Victoria Dark’s first historical romance. I opened it with a feeling of pleasant anticipation, but my hopes were dashed when the characters started acting stupid. The hero did dumb things, the heroine did dumber things, and when even the villain did something really dumb – well I got pretty exasperated. Mattie Idyll…
I’m a sucker for match-making romances, so when I found Between the Lines, I thought I’d pick it up. And while it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped after hearing raves about author Angela Benson, it was a nice evening’s read. Our match-makers are two widowed fathers. Mathias Sanders owns a small Alabama daily with…
Now, some of you are going to like Lucky Stars better than I did. That’s a fact, and I’ll be glad if you do! Patricia Roy is a new author, and this is a strong debut book for her. There are many appealing elements to Lucky Stars, not the least of which is the hero,…
I do like ships. And I love roses! So when I noticed that Linda Windsor’s Border Rose is about a ship, I was excited and I hoped the book would be good. However, I was somewhat disappointed – Windsor came up with a good story, (interesting characters, unique setting) but she is not a storyteller….
I generally don’t read category romances, but since the Letter from the Editor at the beginning of Non-Refundable Groom called it a celebration of sensuality and said it perfectly describes “those unique pleasures that gratify our senses”, I thought I’d give it a try. Unfortunately, while Salier’s book does celebrate the sensual, it does not…
O.K., I like alpha males. No, I love alpha males. I am just crazy about a big, rugged, masculine man who is a real guy, and proud of it. What I don’t like is that so many of the alpha males in romance novels have a streak of either cruelty or arrogance, two traits that…
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