Santa, Honey
One of the worst things about reviewing an anthology is when you have one story that shines, but the rest…don’t. Such is the case with Santa, Honey.
To Wed a Wicked Earl
Usually when you read a book, you expect the plot to go somewhere. Instead, To Wed a Wicked Earl has a tendency to wander in circles, skip over parts, and jump into places it doesn’t belong. Charlotte Greene is a well-known (but gorgeous) wallflower who is jilted in a bizarre and anachronistic Bachelor-like competition (complete…
Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
First two disclaimers: Even though Girls Just Wanna Have Guns didn’t work for me, it may do so for others. And as the book is marketed at fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series, I don’t consider it unfair to compare the two series. Bobbie Faye Sumrall lives in a trailer in Lake Charles, Louisiana,…
Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
I have read Lord of Scoundrels three times now. The first time in 1999 when I discovered AAR’s Desert Isle Keeper page (back when there was a special page), again in 2004 after it won the #1 slot on that year’s Top 100 Romances poll, and this last month for AAR’s Book Club. From reading…
The Lone Texan
The Lone Texan is the conclusion to Jodi Thomas’s Whispering Mountain series. It begins slowly, has an exciting middle, then limps to the end. While I enjoyed it in a mild sort of way, it never totally engaged me. Sage McMurray grew up on the Whispering Mountain ranch, raised by her brothers. Drummond (Drum) Roak…
Never Marry a Stranger by Gayle Callen
Normally I don’t like romances that are based on deception. They just sit badly with me. However, Gayle Callen made this plot far more palatable for me in Never Marry a Stranger, which managed to add a level of rationality and plausibility to a farcical set-up. Captain Matthew Leland was injured while fighting in India,…
Beauty and the Duke
You’ll have to forgive me. This review for Beauty and the Duke appears later than it should have; I simply couldn’t make myself read it any faster. Christine Sommers is a spinster with ambitions to become a great paleontologist. She has spent most of her life following her father from dig to dig and craves…
Christmas Angel for the Billionaire
I chose this book because I’ve read one other by Liz Fielding and it made me cry. There is a quality to her writing that pleases me – she lets dialogue stand for itself without cluttering it with speech tags and the sentences roll off each other in the best tradition of understated British prose;…
Never Love a Lawman by Jo Goodman
Never Love a Lawman sat in my Amazon shopping cart for three months as I anxiously awaited its release. I love western romances – and I mean love them – and it’s rare that I connect with today’s offerings. But somehow, I just knew Jo Goodman would deliver a satisfying western tale and I wasn’t…
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by Susan Donovan
For the most part, this one works. But be prepared for major clichés, a high degree of wackiness, and painfully obvious series set ups along the way. San Francisco newspaper writer Josie Sheehan is 35 and a veteran of a string of failed relationships. In a miraculous three paragraphs, she loses 10 pounds, buys a…
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