Scent of Lilacs is a simple, uncomplicated story. The plot is nothing new, but it still manages to be appealing. Lexie Tate and Jake Westfield are the main players in this version of the “hidden child/push each other away because we’re too afraid to care” story. Lexie and Jake are medical students together in the…
Now, raise your hands. How many of you have met the man of your dreams, immediately fallen in love, been unconditionally loved in return, amiably decided to marry, were in total agreement about the future, and then have lived happily ever after? I think I see a couple of hands out there. The rest of…
I was in the mood for a category romance and picked up Beauty and the Brain, the second in Elizabeth Bevarly’s Blame it on Bob miniseries. I’m a real pushover for books with scientists in them. The Bob of the title is a comet, Bobryzckolonycki, to give it its full name, which comes around every…
Maybe Beauty & the Brain works because it is based on two basic elements – beauty and intelligence. Maybe it works because it brings its adult characters back to how they felt in high school, which is such a raw and intense time. Whatever the reason, Beauty & the Brain works. Rosemary March is beautiful…
Web of Intrigue is being promoted as a “romantic inspirational suspense” (talk about your sub-genres). I took this to mean the story would center around a man and woman who are in (or are falling in) love, who combine their efforts to solve a crime of some sort, all within the general framework of basic…
I have an admitted weakness for Western romances. They can be historical or contemporary, but as long as they have a ranch, a couple hundred head of cattle, and a hero who rides the range, I am willing to give the book a chance. This book was definitely worth the chance. Set in modern-day Sweetgrass,…
You know you’re in trouble when the question posed on the cover of a book, in this instance, “Would the small-town diner waitress choose the millionaire or the black-sheep brother?”, is the book’s highlight. Black sheep brothers are among my weaknesses, and while the story and characters showed some promise, both became mired in a…
If you’re looking for a good mail-order bride romance, I can recommend several. Shotgun Groom would not be one of them. Somehow the author takes a surefire premise and shoots a blank. Lily Towns has wanted to marry Matt Logan since she was a child in Tennessee. After Matt came home from the Civil War,…
Whew. When I finally finished this book, I felt I could finally breathe. It is intense. It is magical. It is emotionally draining, and I feel that I am better for having read it. Diana is a modern day Wiccan living in Salem, Massachusetts. On Samhain (or Halloween) she gets sucked back to the England…
Jennifer Greene is usually an author that a reader can pick up for a good comfort read. This is not the case with Baby In His In-Box. It was not a comfortable book to read, but darn, was it good. I liked the heroine. Molly is honest, efficient, confident, and courageous. I liked the hero….
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