It’s a good sign the rest of the book will be hopping when you get a big bombshell you didn’t expect in chapter one and that’s what happened when I began Kristan Higgins’ The Next Best Thing. It left me speechless at first and then made me sputter (in a good way) quite a bit….
I’d read and enjoyed Margot Early’s books before, so when I came across a copy of The Things We Do for Love at a library book sale, I snapped it up. The story has a vaguely magical premise that sounded like fun. Mary Anne Drew is the society journalist for a small West Virginia newspaper…
A while ago, I read Desire Unchained, the second in the series, and was not particularly impressed. But because I’ve continually heard so many great things about this series, I decided to try again and read Ecstasy Unveiled. I’m so glad I did, because this book was awesome. It would take a lot of time…
Emma Wildes is relatively new to print publishing, but she’s already on my auto-buy list. Lessons from a Scarlet Lady, her second book for Signet, is as good as the first. It’s inventive and well-written, with fabulous love scenes and characters worth reading about. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Brianna Northfield has been…
For some plots to work, the reader needs to suspend their disbelief a bit. Sometimes the only time you can enjoy a story is if you just accept that a character is acting illogically – but without that lack of rational thought, there wouldn’t be a plot. You acknowledge, accept, and enjoy. At the Duke’s…
The Earl and the Governess is better than many Regency-set romances published currently, but despite pleasant prose and likable characters, it is still eminently forgettable. William Stanton, Earl of Lennox, has just acquired a ward. His late friend’s daughter has been permanently dismissed from school and, until he can find another one, Will is stuck…
Chalice of Roses is one of those rare anthologies with four novellas that are all worth reading. That doesn’t happen very often. They may not all be brilliant, but they are all enjoyable, and the grail theme is nicely woven throughout the stories. Essentially, they draw on a basic mythology that the Holy Grail was…
I have been waiting, along with all the rest of Laura Kinsale’s fans, for Lessons in French for a very long time. Now, having received it and read it, I can say that it’s good, but it’s not what I was expecting and it’s not my favorite book in Kinsale’s oeuvre. Lady Callista Taillefaire is…
Romance novels often use three word titles. Take this one – Long, Lean and Lethal. When romance readers see that title, they pretty well know it refers to the hero and Noah in this book is just that. I guess a book titled Short, Plump and Shy wouldn’t exactly fly off the shelf, but after…
I found Promise Me Tonight a tough book to review. Not because I didn’t like it, but more because I couldn’t quite decide what I thought about it (which, believe me, is a problem I rarely have). It really should have gotten on my last nerve, but most of the time I liked it in…
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