I picked up my copy of A Christmas Promise at a library book sale a couple of months ago for a dime. My experience in the past with Mary Balogh has been spotty, but I thought there was a chance this might have resale value and my initial investment was hardly steep, so decision made….
From Waif to Gentleman’s Wife is perhaps the densest category romance I have ever read. I sludged through this bucolic account, really to give this book a solid C grade for utter dullness. But in the last quarter of the book something began to click, and I ended up liking Joanna and Ned. Sir Edward…
Seduce Me by Christmas is an average book that lured me in with the Christmas theme. It wasn’t a terrible book by any means, but it’s entirely skippable – even if you love Christmas stories. Raoul Charlebois is a renowned actor who has just retired from the stage, mostly so he can devote some time…
As debuts go, this is very, very good. As books go, I can recommend Proof by Seduction to you, but only with a few provisos. Jenny Keeble is a fraud. She calls herself Madame Esmerelda and, with no hidden magic that resurfaces when she least expects and no slumbering telepathic gene that transmits itself at…
In Under the Covers I was faced with the opposite of the last anthology I read: two good stories, and one bad one. It’s for the two good stories that I’m giving this anthology a qualified recommendation (though the grade of the third weighs the whole thing down). I should also note, regarding the sensuality…
In Altered Heart, an m/m werewolf romance, the heroes come from two different worlds. Mick Matranga has been a werewolf for all his life and is part of the Committee for Supernatural Behavioral Enforcement. Rio Hardin is a runaway and hustler who was forcibly turned into a werewolf by Sutter, an alpha with a cruel…
With Plan B: Boyfriend, a fun read with fully developed, real-life characters, Ellen Hartman moves onto my series romance auto-buy list. Sarah and Charlie have known each other since high school, but have never been more than acquaintances. Suddenly, they’re thrown together under unusual circumstances, when Sarah goes wild at the financial firm where Charlie…
I used to read lots of science fiction, and I particularly liked a good post-apocalyptic story. Destroy civilization as we know it, and I would happily join the survivors as they attempted to make the world anew. My own personal favorite novel of this type is Earth Abides by George Stewart which is a masterpiece….
When autumn comes round, all romance publishers get busy releasing Christmas romances. It is a setting I particularly enjoy, so each year I order a number of them and settle down on my comfortable sofa while it’s getting dark outside. A word of warning about Together by Christmas, one of Harlequin’s 2009 output: All of…
On the surface, Jane Morgan is stoic, prim, and proper – the perfect efficient office manager. But few people in Aspen, Colorado would guess that her façade is a desperate attempt to divorce herself from her shameful background and family. For ten years she has been a good girl, dating only white-collar men and reading…
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